Miss Marple · Book 9
The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
- Published
- 1 January 1962
- Pages
- 240
- ISBN-13
- 9780671413576
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side (1962, 240 pages), the eighth novel, keeps Marple in her usual English-village territory, solving a case by pattern-matching it against decades of small-town human behavior. It followed 4.50 from Paddington.
Its place in Miss Marple
The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side is book 9 in the Miss Marple series. It follows 4.50 from Paddington. It is followed by A Caribbean Mystery. 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 9780671413576