Sleeping Murder
- Published
- 1 January 1976
- Pages
- 236
- ISBN-13
- 9788447369225
- Type
- novel
About this book
Sleeping Murder (1976, 236 pages) was actually written decades earlier, in the early 1940s, and deliberately held back for posthumous publication as Marple's intended final case -- the same trick Christie played with Poirot's send-off, Curtain. It's dated last in publication order and is best read that way, as a farewell rather than a random entry.
Key facts about Sleeping Murder
Agatha Christie wrote Sleeping Murder, a novel on our list. It has been out since 1976. The book has 236 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9788447369225 to find the main one.
Sleeping Murder is book 13 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
Sleeping Murder is book 13 in the Miss Marple series. It follows Nemesis. It is followed by Miss Marple's Final Cases and Two Other Stories. 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 9788447369225