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“News always reached Miss Marple, one way or another.”

Marple: Twelve New Stories by Various

December 29, 2022 by narfna Leave a Comment

I would read more of these Agatha Christie short story collections featuring notable authors, for sure. Even the ones where Americans tried and failed to capture that British Marple feeling were entertaining in their failure. But most of these stories were pretty successful! One nailed it completely. Highlights for me were the stories from Ruth Ware (I know!), Naomi Alderman, Elly Griffiths, Kate Mosse, and Leigh Bardugo. This may be the easy way out, but I’ve just copied and pasted my Goodreads status update mini-reviews […]

Filed Under: Fanfiction, Mystery Tagged With: agatha christie, Alyssa Cole, anthologies, Dreda Say Mitchell, Elly Griffiths, jean kwok, karen m mcmanus, Kate Mosse, Leigh Bardugo, Lucy Foley, Marple: Twelve New Stories, miss marple, naomi alderman, narfna, Natalie Haynes, pastiche, Ruth Ware, short stories, Val McDermid, various

narfna's CBR14 Review No:241 · Genres: Fanfiction, Mystery · Tags: agatha christie, Alyssa Cole, anthologies, Dreda Say Mitchell, Elly Griffiths, jean kwok, karen m mcmanus, Kate Mosse, Leigh Bardugo, Lucy Foley, Marple: Twelve New Stories, miss marple, naomi alderman, narfna, Natalie Haynes, pastiche, Ruth Ware, short stories, Val McDermid, various ·
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Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories

Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories by Agatha Christie

February 25, 2022 by Classic 2 Comments

February 25, 2022: So I am all about the comfort reads right now. Reading Miss Marple getting the bad guy in the end was just what I needed right now. I also for some weird reason just need to have a physical book in my hands right now. I don’t know if it’s turning the pages that is soothing to me or the smell of the book, but I read this collection and my other short story collection written by Christie that I have in […]

Filed Under: Mystery Tagged With: agatha christie, miss marple

Classic's CBR14 Review No:53 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: agatha christie, miss marple ·
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“The doom has come upon me.”

The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side (Miss Marple, #9) by Agatha Christie

February 1, 2022 by narfna 4 Comments

One part of this was uncomfortably dated, but otherwise this was a fun listen. There is somewhat of an epic red herring (I think that’s what we would call it) in this one, and I didn’t see it coming at all. It helps that I really like Emilia Fox as a narrator. The one downside with her is that she flattens out the characters with American accents, but her British characters are superb. An American film star moves into Miss Marple’s neighborhood (in the very […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Mystery Tagged With: agatha christie, audiobooks, British, emilia fox, miss marple, mystery, narfna, The Mirror Crack’d From Side to Side

narfna's CBR14 Review No:20 · Genres: Audiobooks, Mystery · Tags: agatha christie, audiobooks, British, emilia fox, miss marple, mystery, narfna, The Mirror Crack’d From Side to Side ·
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A timely mystery written over 50 years ago

The Mirror Crack’d From Side to Side by Agatha Christie

October 5, 2021 by ElCicco Leave a Comment

The Mirror Crack’d is a Miss Marple mystery, and while I generally prefer Hercule Poirot, this is a story that made quite an impression on me when I first read it as a kid. I have thought of it often over the years but especially over the past few years for reasons that I cannot divulge since it would totally spoil the mystery. Let’s just say it’s timely and a fun, quick read. Christie published this story in 1962 and it has gotten the film/TV […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: agatha christie, CBR13, ElCicco, Fiction, miss marple, mystery, The Mirror Crack’d From Side to Side

ElCicco's CBR13 Review No:59 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: agatha christie, CBR13, ElCicco, Fiction, miss marple, mystery, The Mirror Crack’d From Side to Side ·
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Cannonballing with Agatha.

4:50 from Paddington (Miss Marple, #7) by Agatha Christie

June 7, 2021 by narfna 14 Comments

I had a very good time with this one. Especially the beginning and ending. (The middle did get a bit squidgy.) The premise of this one has Miss Marple in it from the beginning, which is always nice, but even when that happens, she still takes a backseat in her own books. This time, it’s because she says she’s too old now to do her own footwork, so she enlists the services of Miss Lucy Eyelesbarrow to help her search for a body. The set […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Mystery Tagged With: 4:50 from Paddington, agatha christie, British, crime, Detective Fiction, emilia fox, miss marple, mystery, narfna

narfna's CBR13 Review No:52 · Genres: Audiobooks, Mystery · Tags: 4:50 from Paddington, agatha christie, British, crime, Detective Fiction, emilia fox, miss marple, mystery, narfna ·
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Guinness book of world records, record for least Miss Marple in a Miss Marple book.

The Moving Finger (Miss Marple, #4) by Agatha Christie

August 3, 2020 by narfna 1 Comment

This was fun, but it felt much less like a whodunit than I wanted it to, and Miss Marple came in late to the story even for Miss Marple. I think it may be a record of some sort, how little and how late she was in this book (and her parts were the best parts). Our narrator is actually Jerry Barton, a man who has moved to the small village of Lymstock on the advice of his doctor. Jerry is recovering from a plane […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Mystery Tagged With: 1940s, agatha christie, miss marple, murder mystery, mystery, narfna, richard e. grant, the moving finger

narfna's CBR12 Review No:88 · Genres: Audiobooks, Mystery · Tags: 1940s, agatha christie, miss marple, murder mystery, mystery, narfna, richard e. grant, the moving finger ·
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