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| Original Title: | A Murder Is Announced |
| ISBN: | 1579126294 (ISBN13: 9781579126292) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Miss Marple #5 |
| Characters: | Miss Marple |
| Setting: | United Kingdom Little Paddocks(United Kingdom) |
Agatha Christie
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| Title | : | A Murder Is Announced (Miss Marple #5) |
| Author | : | Agatha Christie |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Agatha Christie Collection |
| Pages | : | Pages: 288 pages |
| Published | : | September 30th 2006 by Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers (first published June 1950) |
| Categories | : | Mystery. Fiction. Crime. Classics. Detective. Thriller. Mystery Thriller. European Literature. British Literature |
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A murder is announced in a small-town newspaper advertisement—and Miss Marple must unravel the fiendish puzzle when a crime does indeed occur.The villagers of Chipping Cleghorn are agog with curiosity when the Gazette advertises “A murder is announced and will take place on Friday, October 29th, at Little Paddocks at 6.30 p.m.”
A childish practical joke? Or a spiteful hoax? Unable to resist the mysterious invitation, the locals arrive at Little Paddocks at the appointed time when, without warning, the lights go out and a gun is fired. When they come back on, a gruesome scene is revealed. An impossible crime? Only Miss Marple can unravel it.
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A Murder is Announced (Miss Marple #5), first published in the UK by the Collins Crim Club in June 1950.Characters: Miss Jane Marple, the Inspector and vicar's wife Bunch, Swiss hotel clerk Rudi, Miss Letitia Blackstone houses scatty Dora, Cousins Julia and Patrick, gardener widow Phillipa, and paranoid cook Mitzi.Abstract: Villagers expect a fun game after a Gazette announcement of murder, but when lights flash off, shots ring out, and a masked burglar falls dead, the Inspector and vicar's wifeA reread for work. Happy new year, everyone.I love Miss Marple for several reasons: most notably because she is a rural English lady with a strong sense of morality, who knits things and notices things, and she has been a role model of mine for at least a decade.I love this book in particular, partly because it's an extremely well-written example of its genre, but mostly because as far as I can recall, it's the first book I ever read that made me think, "Huh. Those characters are clearly
3.5★I seem to be out of synch with most of Christie's other fans, as, in spite of the very original scene setting beginning, I don't consider this one of The Divine Christie's better works.Other than the beginning, the other pluses were some great dialogue, learning more about life in wartime Britain. and the unintentionally hilarious mentions of old pussies! "Ye Gods and Little Fishes," said Sir Henry, "can it be? George, it's my own particular, one and only four starred Pussy. The super Pussy
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"A murder is announced and will take place on Friday, October 29th, at Little Paddocks at 6:30 p.m. Friends please accept this, this only intimation."Such is the ad that runs in the local gazette in the village of Chipping Cleghorn. Little Paddocks is the property owned by Miss Letitia Blacklock, a house she lives in with one of her dearest friends, two young cousins, her gardener and her cook. Everyone is shocked by the ad and denies having anything to with it. Still, Miss Blacklock feels
So... a murder is listed in a newspaper... foretelling it will happen at a certain date and time. Is it possible? Yes. Does it happen? You'll just have to read it. Christie at her best... love her stories. love the concept. Well-written. I'm on a kick to go back and read all the Poirot's and Marple's this year! The best part about this one is the murder takes forever to happen... and you wonder what the real mystery is for so long. I can imagine watching the clock waiting but not knowing what to
Taken from my blog post: https://clsiewert.wordpress.com/2014/...I grew up on Christie. At the time, I was limited to whatever my local library branch physically had on the shelves, so it took awhile to work my way through her bibliography, and even now, Im not sure Ive read all of her books. There was that pesky problem of British and American editions with separate titles, leaving me hopelessly confused about what Ive read. Thankfully, A Murder is Announced had the same title in both editions,
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