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Title: A Murder Is Announced (Miss Marple Mysteries (Paperback)) by Agatha Christie ISBN: 0-451-20119-1 Publisher: Signet Book Pub. Date: 09 January, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.68 (22 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Warning: This book can do major damage to your self-esteem
Comment: I used to think that I was of above average intelligence.
But after just finishing A Murder is Announced (the 7th Christie book I've read) I know differently.
Each time I start a Christie novel I am sure that this time I'll be able to figure out whodunnit, and every time I fail.
This book is just another example of Christie's mastery of the mystery.
The story begins when an advertisement runs in the paper announcing a murder will take place in a small town.
Naturally, the towns people are intrigued thinking it's just part of a game. Of course it isn't and when there is a murder Miss Marple is called in to solve the case.
With great characters and an outstanding plot (featuring more twists than you can get your head around) this is Christie at her best.
A must read for anybody interested in the genre
Rating: 5
Summary: Miss Marple's Excellent Adventure
Comment: Agatha Christie takes us and Miss Marple to the wonderfully cozy village life of post World War II. We get an insight into what life was like for the English in those years---housing shortages, food rationing, inability to get domestic help, the arrival of strangers into towns that had known stable populations for years. This last part is central to the mystery of this superb novel.
Miss Marple is visiting with friends in Chipping Cleghorn when an ad in the Personals column of the morning paper sets village tongues wagging. The ad reads: "A murder is announced and will take place on Friday, October 29th, at Little Paddocks, at 6:30 p.m." Is there anyone who will be able to resist turning up at such an occasion?
Readers can follow all the clues---a photograph album with missing pictures, central heating vs. a fire in the fireplace, and a conversation over morning coffee---to solve along with Miss Marple this story of impersonation and foul play in a cozy and quaint English village.
Rating: 4
Summary: Another Fine Selection From the Queen of Crime
Comment: When a murder is forecasted in a local paper to occur in the quaint village of Chipping Cleghorn, none (well, perhaps one) of the locals knows what to expect. As the townspeople show up at the specified time and place, most anticipate a murder game of sorts. As readers, however, we feel certain that this will be no empty announcement of murder. And indeed, murder soon bursts upon the scene.
A Murder is Announced is the nineteenth Agatha Christie book that I have read, and it certainly does not disappoint. However, it does happen to be the first Christie mystery in which I've been able to correctly identify the culprit, and this overwhelming hunch, surprisingly, came to me early in the novel. Expecting to be disappointed since I thought I had solved it, I read on. Well? As it turned out, I was correct in finding the murderer. And yet Christie includes myriad details that I had no idea about, making the story more and more intriguing and revealing specifics of the murder that only the most astute reader will deduce. I thought I had solved it, but I had in fact only seen the tip of the proverbial iceberg.
An aspect of the novel that I particularly enjoyed: Christie employs a (partially) omniscient third-person point of view, allowing us, for at least a short time, to follow Miss Marple's thought processes, which aren't always revealed to us in the other Marple mysteries.
Though I said previously that the novel does not disappoint, I must admit that my only (very slight) quibble about the book is that some of the relatively significant characters might have been present in the storyline more often. This is a mere trifle, though. Some readers might protest Christie's use of amazing and almost-unbelievable situations and coincidences. I, for one, enjoy them--I'd rather read an ingenious mystery that's slightly far-fetched than a realistic one that's predictable.
All in all, this is a fine read, and one that can be readily taken in one sitting, thanks to a plot that constantly reveals new twists and turns. I'd highly recommend it.
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Title: The Body in the Library (Miss Marple Mysteries (Paperback)) by Agatha Christie ISBN: 0451199871 Publisher: Signet Book Pub. Date: 01 January, 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 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: 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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