A Caribbean Mystery
- Published
- 1 January 1964
- Pages
- 224
- ISBN-13
- 9781719276023
- Type
- novel
About this book
A Caribbean Mystery (1964, 224 pages), the ninth novel, is one of the occasional entries that move Marple out of St Mary Mead entirely, this time to a Caribbean resort -- a rare change of scenery that still relies on her village-honed instinct for reading people. It followed The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side.
Key facts about A Caribbean Mystery
Agatha Christie wrote A Caribbean Mystery, a novel on our list. It has been out since 1964. The book has 224 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781719276023 to find the main one.
A Caribbean Mystery is book 10 of 14 in the Miss Marple series. The series has 14 published books. However, the series starts with The Murder at the Vicarage (1930).
Additionally, Agatha Christie writes Hercule Poirot, Tommy and Tuppence and Superintendent Battle as separate series. Those series sit on our mystery shelf. Meanwhile, Miss Marple's Final Cases and Two Other Stories is the latest published Agatha Christie book on file, from 1979.
About Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie was an English author who became the best-selling novelist in history, with an estimated two billion copies of her books sold worldwide — a sales record beaten only by the Bible and the works of Shakespeare. See every Agatha Christie book in order.
Its place in Miss Marple
A Caribbean Mystery is book 10 in the Miss Marple series. It follows The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side. It is followed by At Bertram's Hotel. See the full Miss Marple reading order.
Jane Marple is an elderly, unmarried amateur detective living in the small English village of St Mary Mead, and Agatha Christie's quiet rebuttal to the idea that a detective needs to be dashing, professional, or even taken seriously. Marple solves murders by pattern-matching them against a lifetime of village gossip and human folly — she has, she insists, seen every possible motive for murder already play out over a church fete or a dispute about the vicar's roses. Christie wrote twelve Marple novels between 1930…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781719276023