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.
Key facts about The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
Agatha Christie wrote The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side, a novel on our list. It has been out since 1962. The book has 240 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780671413576 to find the main one.
The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side is book 9 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 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