Miss Marple · Book 1
The Murder at the Vicarage
- Published
- 1 January 1930
- Pages
- 256
- ISBN-13
- 9786070793134
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Murder at the Vicarage (1930, 256 pages) opens the series and introduces Jane Marple, the elderly amateur detective of St Mary Mead who solves murders by pattern-matching them against a lifetime of village gossip and human folly. It preceded The Thirteen Problems, the short-story collection that further established her method.
Its place in Miss Marple
The Murder at the Vicarage is book 1 in the Miss Marple series. It is followed by The Thirteen Problems. 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 9786070793134