The Body in the Library
- Published
- 1 January 1942
- Pages
- 207
- ISBN-13
- 9788324592265
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Body in the Library (1942, 207 pages), the second novel, is -- alongside A Murder Is Announced -- one of the two most commonly recommended entry points for readers who'd rather start with a stronger book than the debut. It followed The Thirteen Problems.
Key facts about The Body in the Library
The Body in the Library is a novel by Agatha Christie. Readers have had it since 1942. It runs to 207 pages.
Our list holds 1 edition of The Body in the Library. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9788324592265 to find the main one.
The Body in the Library is book 3 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
The Body in the Library is book 3 in the Miss Marple series. It follows The Thirteen Problems. It is followed by The Moving Finger. 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 9788324592265