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.
Key facts about The Thirteen Problems
Agatha Christie wrote The Thirteen Problems, a collection on our list. It has been out since 1932. The book has 221 pages.
We list 1 edition of this collection. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780886461966 to find the main one.
The Thirteen Problems is book 2 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 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