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.
Key facts about The Murder at the Vicarage
Agatha Christie wrote The Murder at the Vicarage, a novel on our list. It has been out since 1930. The book has 256 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9786070793134 to find the main one.
The Murder at the Vicarage is book 1 of 14 in the Miss Marple series. The series has 14 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with.
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 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