Miss Marple · Book 14
Miss Marple's Final Cases and Two Other Stories
- Published
- 1 January 1979
- Pages
- 160
- ISBN-13
- 9780060762599
- Type
- collection
About this book
Miss Marple's Final Cases and Two Other Stories (1979, 160 pages) is the series' second short-story collection, published posthumously three years after Sleeping Murder closed out the novels. It gathers a handful of shorter cases that didn't fit into The Thirteen Problems decades earlier.
Its place in Miss Marple
Miss Marple's Final Cases and Two Other Stories is book 14 in the Miss Marple series. It follows Sleeping Murder. 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 9780061155352
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780060762599