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Title: The Body in the Library (Miss Marple Mysteries (Paperback)) by Agatha Christie ISBN: 0-451-19987-1 Publisher: Signet Book Pub. Date: 01 January, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.03 (32 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: I like Jane Marple
Comment: I don't know why anyone would buy a book by Agatha Christie expecting sex and violence. Her style was to create the atmosphere of an English village before 1935 and to create a puzzle involving the death of someone in the village. Her detectives don't beat anyone up or make love to the suspects. Her detective is given the same clues that the reader sees, and in the last chapter, the detective weaves the relevant clues into the solution. In The Body in the Library, the detective is Jane Marple, an elderly spinster who uses a sharp mind so solve the puzzle. I like the early Jane Marple mysteries; The Body in the Library is fairly typical. You might find this book more enjoyable if you first read The Murder at the Vicarage.
Rating: 4
Summary: The first Agatha Christie book I read
Comment: I read The Body in the Library when I was probably 12 or so and developed a great admiration for Agatha Christie and Miss Marple. (Can't say I like Hercule Poirot that much, but that's just me). Anyway, I went on to read a great many of the books, but always remember The Body as my first and one of my favourites. Now 23 years later, I bought a copy to read on vacation and I am loving it again. I still remember details from the first time I read it. I think that Agatha Christie was the best classic English mystery writer ever and Miss Marple was one of her best creations. Bravo!
Rating: 5
Summary: Miss Marple to the rescue
Comment: Dolly Bantry was slowly waking to the usual sounds of her well run household. Her peaceful, predictable life was thoroughly disrupted when her maid entered, bringing not the expected morning tea, but news of a body in the library! Not only a body, but a young woman! Platinum blonde no less! When her husband could supply no explanation for this occurance Dolly did the only sensible thing - she called her friend and neighbor, Jane Marple.
Miss Marple set about her inquiries and, aided by the police, began to sort out the mess. The trail led to the film industry and then to the nearby seaside resort of Danemouth where the wealthy guests and the staff of the Majestic Hotel become embroiled in the mystery. Ultimately Miss Marple solves the crime, bringing the culprits to justice and saving her friends from a life time of suspicion.
This 1941 work reflects small town English life and morals of the time. The reader needs to keep this mind and not try to see the story in a more contremporary light. It mattered very much at that time whether or not a couple was married or living in sin, teenage girls could be convinced that a talent scout could pick them out of a crowd and the suspicion of a middle-aged man's daliance with a young woman would lead to social exclusion for the whole family.
The plot is, as always in a Christie mystery, fairly laid out with all the clues available to the reader. While the reader may get a suspicion of a red herring and even narrow the field of suspects I doubt that any will arrive at all the answers before Miss Marple reveals all.
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Title: A Murder Is Announced (Miss Marple Mysteries (Paperback)) by Agatha Christie ISBN: 0451201191 Publisher: Signet Book Pub. Date: 09 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Moving Finger (Miss Marple Mysteries (Paperback)) by Agatha Christie ISBN: 0451201167 Publisher: Signet Book Pub. Date: 07 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Murder at the Vicarage (Miss Marple Mysteries (Paperback)) by Agatha Christie ISBN: 0451201159 Publisher: Signet Book Pub. Date: 02 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Thirteen Problems (Miss Marple Mysteries (Paperback)) by Agatha Christie ISBN: 0451200209 Publisher: Signet Book Pub. Date: 05 October, 2004 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Sleeping Murder (Miss Marple Mysteries (Paperback)) by Agatha Christie ISBN: 0451200195 Publisher: Signet Book Pub. Date: 07 September, 2004 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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