Miss Marple · Book 13
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.
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