Miss Marple · Book 5
A Murder Is Announced
- Published
- 1 January 1950
- Pages
- 256
- ISBN-13
- 9783455650242
- Type
- novel
About this book
A Murder Is Announced (1950, 256 pages), the fourth novel, is the other of the two Marple books Christie considered among her finest work in either series, and -- alongside The Body in the Library -- one of the most commonly recommended starting points for new readers. It followed The Moving Finger.
Its place in Miss Marple
A Murder Is Announced is book 5 in the Miss Marple series. It follows The Moving Finger. It is followed by They Do It with Mirrors. 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 9783455650242