![]() ![]() ![]() Miss Marple has been adapted a couple of times, most notably twice by the BBC with three different actresses. I didn’t feel like the choice of narrator suited the story, which frustrated me, but the mystery itself was fun and twisty. Miss Marple is always a joy, although almost the first thing said about her in this book is that she is “the worst cat in the village” who “always knows every single thing that happens”. ![]() The narrator is the local vicar who has a rather young and inappropriate wife (not that she DOES anything wrong, just that she isn’t a good “vicar’s wife”). I liked that the clues were all available to the reader, and the pacing was satisfying (there is nothing I hate more than when a mystery is unsolvable because the author withholds information). I didn’t remember who the murderer was, and I did figure it out before the end. I hadn’t actually read this one before, although I think I had watched one of the shows I talk about below. The vicarage happens to be kitty corner from Miss Marple’s house, and she uses her observations of the comings and goings as well as information that is reported to her to deduce the murderer and surrounding circumstances. Murder At The Vicarage was published in 1930 and is the story of a local Colonel who is murdered in the vicar’s study. ![]()
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