What this relief signifies is that professional detectives are no match for the elderly spinsters (not all so elderly), with some training in looking under the antimacassar, who are now very much in fashion. Times Literary Supplement (Maurice Willson Disher, 16 th May 1942): Some devoted souls may sigh for Hercule Poirot, but there are bound to be others who will be glad to find his place taken in the “new Agatha Christie” by Miss Marple. Here is a Christie detective novel that will leave you gasping, and admiring as never before the technique of one of the world’s outstanding mystery writers. Applying this knowledge, she came upon a solution that is utterly remarkable and unusual. As readers of Murder at the Vicarage will recall, Miss Marple knew a great deal about human nature. A rich widower had changed his will in favour of a cheap little snip one-third his age. A charred body was found in a burnt automobile. A dancer at a nearby health resort had disappeared. There was something about that murdered lass that just didn’t look right. Miss Marple, spinster, had a few ideas of her own. One of the village gossips refused to accept this idle chatter. And the Colonel, of all people! Did that staid, rather stuffy individual have a shady past? Urn:oclc:671756465 Republisher_date 20120801011938 Republisher_operator Scandate 20120731132302 Scanner was the mysterious girl found strangled in the Colonel’s library? Village tongues clattered with the news, especially when it was learned that she was extremely attractive. OL471610W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 94.90 Pages 198 Ppi 650 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0671464965 Urn:lcp:bodyinlibrarymis00agat:epub:0739970b-00bd-43a0-a82b-0a73ccdf12fe Extramarc University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (PZ) Foldoutcount 0 Identifier bodyinlibrarymis00agat Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t3806953s Isbn 0671602551ĩ780671464967 Lccn 88035734 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 8.0 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.16 Openlibrary OL7660126M Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 18:32:34 Boxid IA107010 Boxid_2 CH117201 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donorįriendsofthesanfranciscopubliclibrary External-identifier
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