Miss Marple · Book 6

They Do It with Mirrors

Published
1 January 1952
Pages
207
ISBN-13
9780007716920
Type
novel
Cover of They Do It with Mirrors

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.

Key facts about They Do It with Mirrors

They Do It with Mirrors is a novel by Agatha Christie. Readers have had it since 1952. It runs to 207 pages.

Our list holds 2 editions of They Do It with Mirrors. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780007716920 to find the main one.

They Do It with Mirrors is book 6 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

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…

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