Miss Marple · Book 3
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.
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