by Agatha Christie
A collection of Miss Marple mysteries, plus some bonus short stories…First, the mystery man in the church with a bullet-wound… then, the riddle of a dead man’s buried treasure… the curious conduct oif a caretaker after a fatal riding accident… the corpse and a tape-measure… the girl framed for theft...
Ideal bed time reading - the stories are written well enough to draw you in, but are short and formulaic enough to not keep you up all night guessing what happened next. Some of the stories are more obvious than others. Unlike in the The Thirteen Problems, there is no particular thread to collecti...
"Miss Marple insinuated herself so quickly into my life that I hardly noticed her arrival," Agatha Christie wrote in her posthumously-published autobiography (1977) about the elderly lady who, next to Belgian super-sleuth Hercule Poirot, quickly became one of her most beloved characters. Somewhat re...
The stories about Miss Marple in this book are not special and similar to her other cases. The last two stories with supernatural though, are very interesting. Still in Agatha Christie's style but feels refreshing.