Miss Marple · Book 6
They Do It with Mirrors
- Published
- 1 January 1952
- Pages
- 207
- ISBN-13
- 9780007716920
- Type
- novel
About this book
They Do It with Mirrors (1952, 207 pages), the fifth novel, continues the series' sharp social observation of village and class hypocrisy that runs underneath its fair-play plotting. It followed A Murder Is Announced.
Its place in Miss Marple
They Do It with Mirrors is book 6 in the Miss Marple series. It follows A Murder Is Announced. It is followed by A Pocket Full of Rye. 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 9788578275303
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780007716920