Miss Marple · Book 2
The Thirteen Problems
- Published
- 1 January 1932
- Pages
- 221
- ISBN-13
- 9780886461966
- Type
- collection
About this book
The Thirteen Problems (1932, 221 pages) is a collection of the early short stories that established Marple's 'village parallels' method -- her habit of solving crimes by comparing them to the small dramas and hypocrisies she's already witnessed in St Mary Mead. It followed The Murder at the Vicarage and rewards reading either first or right after it.
Its place in Miss Marple
The Thirteen Problems is book 2 in the Miss Marple series. It follows The Murder at the Vicarage. It is followed by The Body in the Library. 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 9780886461966