- Fiction, Women detectives, Jane Marple (Fictitious character), Detective and mystery stories
The placid village of Lymstock seems the perfect place for Jerry Burton to recuperate from his accident under the care of his sister, Joanna. But soon a series of vicious poison-pen letters destroys the village's quiet charm, eventually causing one recipient to commit suicide. The vicar, the doctor, the servants—all are on the verge of accusing one another when help arrives from an unexpected quarter. The vicar's houseguest happens to be none other than Jane Marple.
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- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- earnestironic
- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
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- Author
- Agatha Christie
- First published
- 1942
- Pages
- 224
- Publisher
- G.K. Hall, A. Mondadori, HarperCollins Publishers Limited
- Editions
- 115
- Language
- Polish, Spanish, Dutch, Russian
- ISBN
- 9780060752170
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“and nurses, that I was going to be condemned to lie on my back all my life.”
Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born in Torquay, Devon, in the United Kingdom, the daughter of a wealthy American stockbroker. Her father died when she was eleven years old. Her mother taught her at home, encouraging her to write at a very young age. At the age of 16, she went to Mrs. Dryden's finishing school in Paris to study singing and piano. In 1914, at age 24, she married Colonel Archibald Christie, an aviator in the Royal Flying Corps. While he went away to war, she worked as a nurse and wrote her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920), which wasn't published until four years later. When her husband came back from the war, they had a daughter. In 1928 she divorced her hus
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