To access your ebook(s) after purchasing, you can download the free Glose app or read instantly on your browser by logging into Glose. Miss Marple is a spinster and most of her tales have her sitting quietly in some sitting room and after hearing a mystery from someone, she compares it to something that happened in her village of St. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. In late 1926, Agatha's husband, Archie, revealed that he was in love with another woman, Nancy Neele, and wanted a divorce. She has the cleverest way of looking at crimes, and relating them back to people she knows or knew in the village of Hogsmeade, or in her own family.

if you are comfy with 75+ year old mysteries and some of the potentially inflammatory language that could appear, you can focus mostly on the clever plots and ability to turn them into thrilling moves and tv series. Christie's travels with Mallowan contributed background to several of her novels set in the Middle East. A near fine book without inscriptions, showing some slight bumping to the head and base of the spine. Promotional copy for a magazine in the Agatha Christie Signature Edition showing photo of Joan Hickson.Audrey was an extravagant socialite and renowned beauty, the illegitimate granddaughter of King Edward VII (though she was also rumoured to be his daughter, or the lover of King Edward VIII), featured in the 'Book of Beauty' by Cecil Beaton. The Case of the Perfect Maid - Two elderly sisters (one an invalid) hire the perfect maid - uncomplaining and efficient. Miss Marple’s cases are: Sanctuary, Strange Jest, Tape-Measure Murder, The Case of the Caretaker, The Case of the Perfect Maid, Miss Marple Tells a Story. During the Second World War, Christie worked in the pharmacy at University College Hospital of University College, London, where she acquired a knowledge of poisons that she put to good use in her post-war crime novels. I have now come to the end of my Miss Marple reading marathon this year, with this final volume, “Miss Marple’s Final Cases.

Miss Marple’s Final Cases’ is the first Agatha Christie that I have read and it’s one that I happened across rather than chose to read. Final Cases’ is a collection of six short Miss Marple stories along with two additional and somewhat eerie stories of the supernatural. Outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare, Agatha Christie is the best-selling novelist of all time. While they didn't outright accuse her, the taint of scandal is enough to ruin her chances of future employment.Originally broadcast to mark the 125th anniversary of Agatha Christie’s birth, these brand-new dramas are based on three of her best short stories. These made me keen to try out Christie’s non-mystery novels which I have been meaning to read for years and years and still haven’t picked up. This is a story of a rich uncle who leaves his niece and nephew (who want to get married) to hunt for his fortune after he dies. I was meant to read this as the final book in my Miss Marple Marathon in 2017, but somehow I never did. The boards are free from notable wear and the text blocks are bright and white throughout, with some very slight toning at the top edge.

As I've said before Miss Marple for me IS Joan Hickson, and so every time I read the words Miss Marple I see Joan Hickson in my head and somehow it makes the story even more enjoyable as i imagine her eyes twinkling as she teases whichever policeman is trying to follow her wonderfully rambling stories. It got to the point where she would be seen cycling in to a quaint little English village and the bodies would start dropping like files - the thing is no one ever seemed to make the connection! First published in the collection Miss Marple’s Final Cases, these three delightfully clever tales will keep you guessing till the end. MY THOUGHTS: Is there anything I could say about Christie's Miss Marple that hasn’t been said before? This collection of tales, seven of them featuring Agatha Christie’s much loved Miss Marple, plus two stand-alone stories, is a treasure trove.Tape-Measure Murder - A dressmaker arrives for a fitting appointment, only to find her client is dead. She based at least two of her stories on the hall: the short story The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding, and the novel After the Funeral. In 1930, Christie married archaeologist Max Mallowan (Sir Max from 1968) after joining him in an archaeological dig. The jacket has some browning around the edges and to the flaps - particularly around the edges of the rear flap.