second one is soo good and I'm really attached to Miss marple more than Poirot sorry I usually love Agatha Christie stories always have since I was pretty young.
She was one of the authors that really got me into reading mysteries, after all,
And this book of short stories are equally endearing, . . all except two, which aren't Miss Marple mysteries at all, And they aren't really mysteries so much as almost ghost stories, . . but because of that they may be the ones that remain most vividly in my mind,
Miss Marple is a spinster and most of her tales have her sitting quietly in some sitting room and after hearing a mystery from someone, she compares it to something that happened in her village of St.
Mary Mead and comes up with the clever solution that no one else does, I especially like the first story in the book, Sanctuary, that features her god daughter Bunch, a vicar's wife who comes across a dying man in the church.
But this story too is a bit different from the others, Because Bunch ends up becoming almost the protagonist in the story, she is involved in nearly all the action, Miss Marple is involved, and is likely the one who solves the mystery, but Bunch is really the driving force,
And then there is the story Strange Jest, that reintroduces us to the actress Jane Helier, Jane introduces Miss Marple to a couple, who have a mystery and once again, we're in to the pace, flavor and usual fair that so many of us enjoy from Christie and Miss Marple.
That's how it is with seven of the nine stories in this book, That's probably why the other two stand out, They are very much different from the usual and for all those reasons, the book is a good if surprising read, I didn't like as much the two nonMiss Marple stories, but I'm glad that I read them and this book, If you enjoy Christie, short stories or clever mysteries, this would be a good one to try,
على الرغم من عنوان الكتاب والذي اختاره الناشر ليلائم تاريخ نشرها حيث جمعت
القصص من مجلات قديمة لتنشر بعد وفاة الكاتبة فهو مناسب ليكون البداية في دخول
عالم أجاثا وللتعرف على الآنسة ماربل التي تعد من أهم الشخصيات في قصص كريستي
ففي هذه المجموعة مقدمة تعريفية عن ماربل عائلتها حياتها عام ظهورها
وتحولها لأشهر الشخصيات الخيالية, . القصص التي حققت فيها وحتى مخطط تفصيلي
وتخيلي لقريتها سينت ميري ميد
تضم المجموعةقصص. .قصص بطلتها ماربل
وبما أن العزيزة ماربل خبيرة بالنفس البشرية وخباياها فحل تلك القضايا كان بغاية السهولة
القصتان الأخيرتان غريبتان إحداهما تحمل عنوان دمية الخياطة ذكرتني بالعروس المرعبة تشاكي
القصة الأخيرة جريمة في المرآة تذكرت قراءتي لها سابقا رغم عدم تذكري
لباقي المجموعة
قصص جميلة استمتعت بقراءتي لها كما العادة مع كريستي
I adored Miss Marple as a teenager what does that say about me, and I read most of them during high school.
I remember studying her works in college too, but all of these were read in the past, and I'll be reading them again soon in the fullcollection of all her short stories where I'll write a much more detailed review.
That said, Marple is the kind of heroine we can easily get annoyed by or gain great admiration for, . . she's got to be the basis for Columbo, or she and Poirot combined, I can't recommend these enough, . . if you are comfy withyear old mysteries and some of the potentially inflammatory language that could appear, you can focus mostly on the clever plots and ability to turn them into thrilling moves and tv series.
Genius when it comes to plot architecture! The only thing that really stood out for me were the supernatural stories, They aren't the best ones in the genre, but it's refreshing to see something so different than what Agatha Christie's usually does, The stories that involved crime or murder are just very dull and confusing in the way they seem to contain so much information crammed up in a few pages.
Bookof the Miss Marple Challenge, This one is a set of short stories, six of the “original” final cases, an additional Miss Marple story “Greenshaws Folly” and two nonMarple stories, “In A Glass Darkly” and “the Dressmakers Doll”.
The edition I have has only the original six but I dug out two others from other Christie short story collections that I have so its sort of a “cheat” marking this one as “read” since I have missed “Dressmakers Doll”.
The last six of Miss Marples cases were not restricted to murder alone, Though the majority of the stories four of the six do involve murders, there is also a hidden treasure in fact more than one and robbery in the other two which were as much fun as the murder stories and Miss Marple shows us that not all hidden treasures are “hidden” and not all the obvious suspects the actual murderers.
In these we find ourselves back in St Mary Mead as well as Chipping Cleghorn where a murder was announced with old friends, the Harmons Bunch, particularly, Jane Helier from the Thirteen Problems, Doctor Haydock, Mrs PriceRidley, Raymond and Joan, and of course Tiglath Pileser though he makes only a brief appearance.
The story I most enjoyed in the collection was not a murder one to my own surprise but the “Perfect Maid”, which was such funI remembered the solution from a previous read but wouldnt have guessed otherwise.
And one cant help but love Doctor Haydock for knowing just the right medicine for Miss Marple, a case to solve when she needs it!
Of the other two stories, “Greenshaws Folly” was enjoyable, pretty complicated really but seemed to me just a little bit farfetched with a plot detail was quite similar to another story.
“In a Glass Darkly” was certainly the creepiest of the lot, not exactly a supernatural story but with a touch of the uncanny that made it very enjoyable indeed.
This was a great collection to end the Miss Marple challenge, Ive really enjoyed reading the books chronologically, Many of the mysteries were excellentthe puzzles keeping me guessing A Murder is Announced, The Body in the Library, :from Paddington, Sleeping Murder, among them but there was so much more to them as well.
I also enjoyed the social changes taking place with each of the books, Miss Marples reactions to them, the characters that AC herself was a great observer of human nature stands out in so many, and even the changes in Miss Marple herself who when I read the first book this time was so very different to the impression I had of her and changed as the books progressed.
The books also make to an extent quite a strong statement against stereotyping on account of ageMiss Marple maynt be physically strong a bit of a stereotype in itself but her mind is as sharp as ever and where everyone else fails, Miss M always has the right answer.
This has been a great challenge that I thoroughly enjoyed, And so on to the next of the Agatha Christie collection I was so lucky to find recently, Now I will admit that I am not the greatest fan of the little old lady I think I was too heavily influenced from the TV series which ran for way more shows than the original books.
It got to the point where she would be seen cycling in to a quaint little English village and the bodies would start dropping like files the thing is no one ever seemed to make the connection!!!.
Anyway I chose this book to see if my opinions were founded or not and as usual they were not to a degree, You see this book contains a number of short stories as well as two which do not appear to have any connection to Miss Marple which range from murder, to lost fortunes and even jewellery thefts.
I guess such stories do not make such gripping TV but at least show other stories rather than a constant stream of deaths,
I will admit that I am still a in doubt of this character since she constantly plays down here ability, uses her connections and names drops and generally claims enfeeblement when really her mind is like a steel trap which apparently misses nothing.
So yes I am still undecided over the character however I thoroughly enjoyed the stories and I must admit I am constantly having to reevaluate my opinion of Agatha Christie which I think is a good thing.
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این مجموعه شامل ۹ داستان کوتاه معمایی هست که با شخصیت خانم مارپل
روایت می شود که اکثرا دارای خلاهای روایی هست به طوری که عملا امکان ارتکاب جنایت به آن شیوه وجود نداره مگر اینکه با یک سری انسان احمق و کم هوش رو به رو باشیدر بعصی از داستان ها انسان هایی را میبینید که عمدا کاری میکنن که در مظان اتهام قرار میگیرند ولی قاتل نیستند و اصلا نگران این نیستند که ممکنه به عنوان قاتل دستگیر بشند و اعدام در انتظارشون باشه که این مسلئه منطق رو از داستان حذف میکنه. . عنصری که در داستان های جنایی رکن اصلی محسوب میشه
حماقت گرینشاو ۳ ستاره
محراب ۲. ۵ ستاره
شوخی عجیب ۱ ستاره
هراس ۱. ۵ ستاره
سرایدار ۱ ستاره
خدمتکار بی عیب و نقص ۲. ۵ ستاره
قتل در هتل کراون ۲ ستاره
عروسک مرموز صفر
تصویری در شیشه ۳. ۵ ستاره The Miss Marple stories are OK, although I really prefer the full length novels, What spoils the book for me are the two final stories, sans Miss Marple, I don't at all care for this sort of supernatural horror stuff that doesn't make sense in the first place, let alone in this collection, Not a bad selection of stories, but not the best if you're looking for Miss Marple shorts,
Two of the stories don't have any Jane in them at all, in fact,
BUT. They are both really good shorts, so it's still a win,
If you're looking for a good collection of Miss Marple shorts, I'd recommend sitelinkThe Thirteen Problems or sitelinkMiss Marple: The Complete Short Stories,
sitelinkSanctuary
A man dies from a gunshot wound in the parson's wife's arms, whispering the word sanctuary with his dying breath.
A little dramatic, no
sitelinkStrange Jest
This is a story of a rich uncle who leaves his niece and nephew who want to get married to hunt for his fortune after he dies.
To be honest it felt a bit like sitelinkManx Gold because in that one you have two cousins who want to get married but have to hunt for the treasure that their rich old relative leaves for them, as well.
However, that one is more of a real treasure hunt with clues, and this one is that he didn't trust banks and they're just hunting around in the house for what the crazy old fart did with all of his money.
Miss Marple inserts herself into the hunt in her fluffy old lady way, and then shocks the young couple when she solves the mystery for them.
How
Because this guy reminds her of another old man who liked Dad jokes back in St, Mary Mead.
Village life, bitches.
sitelinkTapeMeasure Murder
Not my favorite Marple,
And yet, is any Marple a bad Marple
So, This one deals with a woman whose husband is the main suspect in her murder, mainly because he isn't showing the appropriate amount of emotion,
sitelinkThe Case of the Caretaker
Miss Marple, recovered from a bad bout of the flu, was feeling depressed,
I guess that's a thing
Anyway, it took a lot out of her and she'd started to fall into a funk, So her good friend and physician, Doctor Haydock, brings her a file with a case he recently had so she can solve the whodunnit,
sitelinkThe Case of the Perfect Maid
Miss Marple knows,
She's like Santa Clause or something when it comes to who has been bad or good, and her friends and neighbors would do well to listen to her advice when it comes to the hiring and firing of servants.
Or employees as we call them these days,
A sweet but flighty domestic named Gladys is fired after being suspected of stealing jewelry from the two sisters that employed her.
While they didn't outright accuse her, the taint of scandal is enough to ruin her chances of future employment, Luckily for Gladys, her cousin is Miss Marple's maid, And she pleads her silly cousin's case to her beloved little old lady,
sitelinkMiss Marple Tells a Story
I loved the way Miss Marple narrated the story in a hilarious humblebrag kind of way,
When a lawyer brings his client to Jane and asks her to listen to the story of the events leading up to him finding his wife dead in their hotel room, the client in question thinks it's a waste of time.
However, just as her lawyer friend hoped, the fluffy old lady manages to see a few things that everyone else missed and ends up saving his bacon.
sitelinkThe Dressmaker's Doll
This is maybe the creepiest story Agatha Christie ever wrote,
Of course any story written about a haunted doll is going to scare the shit out of me, That's my thing.
Dolls. Ugh. Brrr!
sitelink In a Glass Darkly
Once again, Christie has her heroine getting strangled by the man who claims to love her.
What was wrong with you, Agatha!
A young man has a vision of a beautiful woman being strangled in the room next to his while at a house party.
Can he save her from her fate
sitelinkGreenshaw's Folly
Raymond West, Miss Marple's lovable nephew, brings home a mystery to his Aunt Jane.
While trying to entertain a friend from the city with the local sight of an oddly built local house, he stumbles into a family drama and a murdertobe decades in the making.
If for some reason you are looking for Marple shorts that are not part of the Tuesday Night Club, then this would be great.
Otherwise, I'd suggest trying to find either of the books linked at the top of the review,
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