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Classic, alwayssurprising Christie mysteries, Somehow, she manages always to unravel the story in such a way that you don't guess who did the crime, yet the solution seems entirely plausible,
Miss Marple Omnibus Volume I is my favourite collection of Christie novels because, whilst some of the other stories use Miss Marple's view of village life as a prism to interpret the crimes committed by the rest of society we are outside the confines of the peaceful English village in A Caribbean Mystery and in At Bertram's Hotel, for example, here the acute observations of village life are played out in front of us and we have direct access to the quirky but believable characters.


A Murder is Announced is my favourite in the collection and, indeed, my favourite Christie novel because of the absurd publicallywitnessed first murder and the identity of the killer: who would have thought that old ladies in an idyllic English village could be so given to greed and malice

It's easy to dismiss this sort of crime fiction as being from a cosier age.
However, Christie acutely observes the relationship between people within a closed community with great aplomb, Whilst it is possible to view some of the comments voiced by the characters as oldfashioned, and even racist and sexist in some of the Marple novels, I would suggest that the crime genre gives Christie the opportunity to represent these sort of bigoted attitudes.
And by representing such attitudes, a writer does not automatically condone them: s/he offers them to a reader to respond as they wish,

I know goodreads is about books but if you are interested in tv adaptations, I recommend the BBC version with Joan Hickson from thes and not the more recent ITV version with Geraldine McEwen.
L Nice cozy mystery. I enjoyed the quaint setting and Marple's deliberations,

After reading quite a few Agatha's mysteries, it seems like in many of her plots, almost everyone is a suspect, Though I liked that in And Then There Were None, The Oriental Express and A Body In Library, it kind of got a little too repetitive in this book.
ohhhhhhhhh miss marple you smartie My favourite from this collection is the,from Paddington. I do so love Miss Marple, with her knitting, her sherry and her incomparable mind!! The body in the Libarystars

The moving fingerstars

A murder is announcedstars

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from PaddingtonAWESOME
The first two are excellent social dramas, Christie obviously knew a great deal about human nature, And the writing is of a higher quality than I expected, The third story has all those things, but is let down by an improbable plot, Much too contrived and overthought, The fourth story I didn't get to read because my dog peed on the book, Obviously doesn't like whodunnits. "Agatha Christie was the greatest exponent of the classical detective story, Her unique literary talents have crossed every boundary of age, race, class, geography and education, While she refined the template for a fictional form, the reading of her books became an international pastime, " John Curran

I started reading and collecting Agatha Christie books when I wasyears old, I adored her books and still do, There is a great comfort, as an adult, in reading her books and acute observations of people that favours style over the penny horrors of sadism, torture, and graphic violence favoured by some authors.
I have just finished reading each of these, then watching the various movies associated with them, What amazes me is the ability Agatha Christie has for crafting such interesting plots while peopling them with real people, It is a little like Jane Austen, the conversation and the people are totally real, And you have to pay attention to what people say, . the silly old lady may be telling exactly the truth, but you have to have ears to hear her, Just wonderful to read. As always love Miss Marple and some of my favourite of her stories are in this collection, I find it so interesting having watched the newer TV series on ITV how the stories were adapted from the originals, I would say that even though I knew the stories, was enjoying the read, it has an easily followed writing style and each story is quite short I did find that I took a lot longer to get through this book than what I usually read at.
Miss Marple, the epitome of the old lady detective, This book contains four of Agatha Christie's best stories, These are my first written Agatha Christie stories, Clearly written and enjoyable humour, still entrapped by the endings, despite having seen them all on TV, Miss Marple surely AC at her finest, The first of three omnibus collections of Miss Jane Marple novels containing/ths of those in the series,

. The Body in the Library the body of one young woman is found in the Bantry library and another in a deserted quarry nearby,
. The Moving Finger when hate mail attacks almost everyone in Lymstock, one recipient commits suicide, Or did she
. A Murder is Announced the Chipping Cleghorn Gazette announces in the personal column the time and place of a murder,
from Paddington Mrs. McGillicuddy sees a man strangle a woman as trains cross, but only Jane believes her, She sends a housekeeper.

Librarian's note: this entry is for the collection, "Miss Marple Omnibus Volume, " Entries for each of thenovels andstories in the Miss Marple series can be found elsewhere on Goodreads, Never though i would like miss marple, . . I did
. I really liked the book, It was very surprising, unfortunately thats because there barely are any hints, Detective stories, most of the time, give hints, Evidence or theories, which make someone look suspicious, With those you can suspect someone yourself, Most of Agatha Christies books have such things,
There were also

some words I could barely understand, Id figure it out later on, but it became a little hard to read for a Dutch girl from.
And we dont have a fireplace at home, so it took a while before I figured out what a hearth rug was,
But back to the point, I did like the book, It has an interesting plot, and interesting characters as well, It keeps you in the dark till the end, which also has a bright side, And the details! A discussion between Mrs, Bantry and her husband of five pages, if the message of the parlourmaid wasnt a dream, if the parlourmaid went nuts, if it was true, A half page for Miss Marple to fill with who could possibly call her before ten oclock, in a normal situation it would be her nephew, I really liked those pieces,
To make a long story short: I recommend this to everyone! If you dont like it, you dont, But I do! The plot is really complicated, nice!of thepages are lying, not nice, but its worth it, And the people, how unnecessary or unimportant they were, all had a real character, And the whole book has three other stories in it as well, so actually Im not done yet!
Rereading these novels after more than a decade, I was struck by the astuteness of the social comedy in these early books, and found myself enjoying them more for the delight of Christie's observations of village life than for the intricate and somewhat contrived machinations of the murder mysteries themselves.
.Agatha Christie also wrote romance novels under the pseudonym sitelink Mary Westmacott, and was occasionally published under the name sitelink Agatha Christie Mallowan, Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie is the best selling author of all time, She wrotecrime novels and story collections, fourteen plays, and six novels under a pseudonym in Romance, Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and a billion in translation, According to Index Translationum, she remains the most translated individual author, having been translated into at leastlanguages, She is the creator of two of the most enduring figures in crime literature Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple and author of The Mousetrap, the longest running play in the history of Agatha Christie also wrote romance novels under the pseudonym sitelink Mary Westmacott, and was occasionally published under the name sitelink Agatha Christie Mallowan.
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie is the best selling author of all time, She wrotecrime novels and story collections, fourteen plays, and six novels under a pseudonym in Romance, Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and a billion in translation, According to Index Translationum, she remains the most translated individual author, having been translated into at leastlanguages, She is the creator of two of the most enduring figures in crime literature Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple and author of The Mousetrap, the longest running play in the history of modern theatre.
Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born in Torquay, Devon, England, U, K. , as the youngest of three, The Millers had two other children: Margaret Frary Miller, called Madge, who was eleven years Agatha's senior, and Louis Montant Miller, called Monty, ten years older than Agatha, Before marrying and starting a family in London, she had served in a Devon hospital during the First World War, tending to troops coming back from the trenches, During the First World War, she worked at a hospital as a nurse later working at a hospital pharmacy, a job that influenced her work, as many of the murders in her books are carried out with poison.
During the Second World War, she worked as a pharmacy assistant at University College Hospital, London, acquiring a good knowledge of poisons which feature in many of her novels.
Her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, came out in, During her first marriage, Agatha published six novels, a collection of short stories, and a number of short stories in magazines, In late, Agatha's husband, Archie, revealed that he was in love with another woman, Nancy Neele, and wanted a divorce, OnDecemberthe couple quarreled, and Archie Christie left their house, Styles, in Sunningdale, Berkshire, to spend the weekend with his mistress at Godalming, Surrey, That same evening Agatha disappeared from her home, leaving behind a letter for her secretary saying that she was going to Yorkshire, Her disappearance caused an outcry from the public, many of whom were admirers of her novels, Despite a massive manhunt, she was not found for eleven days, In, Christie married archaeologist Max Mallowan Sir Max fromafter joining him in an archaeological dig, Their marriage was especially happy in the early years and remained so until Christie's death in, Christie frequently used familiar settings for her stories, Christie's travels with Mallowan contributed background to several of her novels set in the Middle East, Other novels such as And Then There Were None were set in and around Torquay, where she was born, Christie'snovel Murder on the Orient Express was written in the Hotel Pera Palace in Istanbul, Turkey, the southern terminus of the railway, The hotel maintains Christie's room as a memorial to the author, The Greenway Estate in Devon, acquired by the couple as a summer residence in, is now in the care of the National Trust, Christie often stayed at Abney Hall in Cheshire, which was owned by her brother in law, James Watts, She based at least two of her stories on the hall: the short story The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding, and the novel After the Funeral.
Abney Hall became Agatha's greatest inspiration for country house life, with all the servants and grandeur which have been woven into her plots, To honour her many literary works, she was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in theNew Year Honours, The next year, she became the President of the Detection Club, sitelink Wikipedia entry sitelink.