The Murder at the Vicarage
1930 • 307 pages
Ratings20
Average rating4.2
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Ratings20
Average rating4.2
A quiet English village A shocking murder An unlikely detective
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13 primary books38 released booksMiss Marple is a 23-book series with 13 primary works first released in 1923 with contributions by Agatha Christie, Michael Bakewell, and 2 others.
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Another good Miss Marple story, in the usual style. The narrator was especially good, although I can never decide if I like male or female readers best for Agatha Christie audiobooks. I was pretty sure I knew who the murderer was, using my new technique of solving Miss Marple stories, but once again I was way off. I had to console myself with having correctly figured out a minor element of the story. In all, a thoroughly good book.
I had forgotten how much I love whodunits. This is a decent—but not stellar—example of one. It was fun trying to solve the mystery, but there was something missing from the narrative, causing it to be less than utterly captivating.
Big fan of Poirot, not so much of Marple :/
The first book in the Marple series is not bad by any means; in fact, it is very clever, but I prefer Christie's other, more traditional detective Poirot to the sleepy hamlet heroine Marple.
