Superintendent Battle · Book 3
Murder Is Easy
- Published
- 1 January 1939
- Pages
- 223
- ISBN-13
- 9783502551638
- Type
- novel
About this book
Murder Is Easy is the third entry in Agatha Christie's Superintendent Battle series, published in 1939 at 223 pages. It follows The Seven Dials Mystery and precedes the series' closing volume, Towards Zero.
Its place in Superintendent Battle
Murder Is Easy is book 3 in the Superintendent Battle series. It follows The Seven Dials Mystery. It is followed by Towards Zero. See the full Superintendent Battle reading order.
Superintendent Battle is Agatha Christie's Scotland Yard professional: a square, wooden-faced, deliberately unremarkable detective who is repeatedly underestimated by the aristocrats and diplomats around him and repeatedly proves them wrong. Where Poirot leans on flamboyant genius and Marple on village intuition, Battle works by patience, procedure, and a poker face — Christie described him as looking like he was carved out of wood, and the joke of the character is that everyone in the room assumes the phlegmatic…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9783502551638