- Agatha Christie, Miss Marple, Series, British
As Miss Marple sat basking in the Caribbean sunshine, she felt mildly discontented with life. True, the warmth eased her rheumatism, but here in paradise nothing ever happened. Eventually, her interest was aroused by an old soldier's yarn about strange coincidence. Infuriatingly, just as he was about to show her an astonishing photograph, the Major's attention wandered. He never did finish the story...
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Classical in form, cool, resolved and effortless.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- resolvedopen-ended
- effortlessdemanding
- sparerichly built
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- Author
- Agatha Christie
- First published
- 1964
- Pages
- 224
- Publisher
- HarperPrism, HarperCollins Publishers, Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
- Editions
- 107
- Language
- German, Italian, Polish, French
- ISBN
- 9798543092057
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“"Take all this business about Kenya," said Major Palgrave.”
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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