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.
Key facts about A Murder Is Announced
Agatha Christie wrote A Murder Is Announced, a novel on our list. It has been out since 1950. The book has 256 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9783455650242 to find the main one.
A Murder Is Announced is book 5 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 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