Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories

I didn't want it to end! Very happy to realize there are 12 novels featuring this character for me to sink my teeth into. Tone and length really lent to reading these short stories aloud. Very much into the ‘little old lady is a lot sharper than you think' trope, and as much as the humble village life is overplayed, it's satisfying to see a mystery-solving protagonist grounded in life experience, rather than just uncanny observational skills.

A lot less blatantly objectionable content than I encountered in And Then There Were None, but definitely still dated in values and opinions.

⚠️Orientalism, fetishization of non-English women and religions, xenophobia/racism, ableism, misogyny