Miss Marple · Book 10
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.
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