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Miss Marple is in this one from the beginning!

They Do it With Mirrors (Miss Marple, #6) by Agatha Christie

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I think I’ve come to the conclusion that I prefer Poirot books to Marple ones, but this one started off really well! One of the reasons I usually like Poirot better is that he’s usually more involved in the narrative. Miss Marple usually sidles in at the last moment and mostly does her work off page. But here, she was present from page one. Unfortunately, I just lost my motivation about halfway through as the mystery itself didn’t really hold my attention. Miss Marple’s childhood friend Ruth Van Rydock has recently visited her sister Carrie Louise at her Victorian estate, […]

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9/12/2017 's CBR9 Review No:76 |

Nothing like a cozy murder to get you through the holidays

The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie

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While romance is my genre of choice, when I stray it is always to mysteries.  Lately my mystery reading has taken me to the historical and paranormal sub-genres, but my first love was of the cozy variety.  I read many of Agatha Christie’s books back in high school but hadn’t read any in 20+ years.  I remember liking almost everything she wrote, but the Miss Marple mysteries were my favorite.  Something about a woman who is underestimated and overlooked but outwits everyone is very appealing to me right now.  Belphebe reviewed the Miss Marple short stories in CBR8, and it […]

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1/2/2017 's CBR9 Review No:1 |

“People in the dark are quite different, aren’t they?”

A Murder is Announced (Miss Marple, #5) by Agatha Christie

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Once again guessed the murderer by complete accident. I’m the mystery reader equivalent of those characters you often see in farces who are complete idiots (usually lovable) and bumble about doing everything so wrong they come back around and get everything right. I really enjoyed this book, which was apparently Christie’s 50th (although publishers had to count a book of short stories to make this true, and they really wanted to, because publicists never change). It starts out kind of like a game. An ad is taken out in the local paper of the small country village, Chipping Cleghorn (so […]

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10/12/2016 's CBR8 Review No:127 |

Christie takes a very old trope and makes it work.

The Body in the Library (Miss Marple, #3) by Agatha Christie

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I love listening to Agatha Christie books when it’s cold outside. It’s so cozy and comforting and British. This one didn’t disappoint, although it’s not my favorite of hers so far. The dead body found in the library conceit was old even back in 1941 when The Body in the Library was first published. Good old Agatha got ahold of it and decided to make it her own. There is indeed a body found in a library at the start of this book, but in quite different circumstances than you’d expect. The Bantry’s wake up one morning in their country estate […]

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12/31/2015 's CBR7 Review No:207 |

“Scandal and tea at four-thirty.”

The Murder at the Vicarage (Miss Marple, #1) by Agatha Christie

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Good times with Miss Marple. I wish there would have been a bit more scenes with her, though. Maybe it’s just my own expectations of the role titular detectives should play in their own series, though. There is no written rule saying that the detectives must play the largest role in their books over other characters, it’s just what we’re used to. The vicar was a good pair of eyes to see this story through, after all. I admit it would be fun to see through Miss Marple’s eyes, but Agatha Christie’s storytelling style only works if the reader is […]

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3/16/2015 's CBR7 Review No:34 |


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