- Fiction, Jane Marple (Fictitious character), Women detectives, Women detectives in fiction
"Let sleeping murder lie": this is the proverb (a variation on "Let sleeping dogs lie") which is not obeyed by twenty-one-year-old New Zealander Gwenda Reed, who has recently married and now comes to England to settle down there.
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- resolvedopen-ended
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- Agatha Christie
- First published
- 1940
- Pages
- 236
- Publisher
- NAL Trade, Livre de Poche, RBA
- Editions
- 117
- Language
- German, English, French, tur
- ISBN
- 9788466401357
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- Fiction
- Jane Marple (Fictitious character)
- Women detectives
- Women detectives in fiction
- Mystery
- Large type books
- English Detective and mystery stories
- Translations into French
- English literature
- Fiction, mystery & detective, traditional
- Fiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths
- Marple, jane (fictitious character), fiction
“Gwenda Reed stood, shivering a little, on the quay-side.”
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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