Miss Marple #4
A Murder Is Announced
The novel was promoted on both sides of the Atlantic as Agatha Christie's 50th book and published in 1950 by William Collins.
Librarian's note: this entry is for the novel, "A Murder is Announced." Collections and other Miss Marple stories are located elsewhere on Goodreads. The series includes 12 novels and 20 short stories. Entries for the short stories can be found by searching Goodreads for: "a Miss Marple Short Story."
288 pages, Hardcover
First published June 1,1950
This edition
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288 pages, Hardcover
- Published
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September 30, 2006 by Black Dog \u0026 Leventhal Publishers
- ISBN
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9781579126292
- ASIN
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1579126294
- Language
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English
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Miss Marple
Miss Jane Marple is a fictional character who is the focal point in 12 Agatha Christie crime novels and 20 short stories. She is an elderly spinster who lives in the village of St. Mary Mead and acts as an amateur detective. Alongside Hercule Poirot, she ...
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Letitia Blacklock
About 60, she is retired. She had been the personal assistant to a wealthy businessman....
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Dora Bunner
Dora is an old school friend of Letitia Blacklock and her sister Charlotte Blacklock who is deceased. In the last year, she has come to live with Letty....
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Phillipa Haymes
A young widow, she is boarding at Little Paddocks. She is a gardener by trade....
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Patrick Simmons
A cousin of Letitia Blacklock. Young, he refers to her as Aunt Letty....
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Julia Simmons
The sister of Patrick. She too is young and refers to her older cousin as Aunt Letty. Patrick and Julia are staying in the house....
About the author
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE (née Miller) was an English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. She also wrote the world's longest-running play, the murder mystery The Mousetrap, which has been performed in the West End of London since 1952. A writer during the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction", Christie has been called the "Queen of Crime". She also wrote six novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. In 1971, she was made a Dame (DBE) by Queen Elizabeth II for her contributions to literature. Guinness World Records lists Christie as the best-selling fiction writer of all time, her novels having sold more than two billion copies.
This best-selling author of all time wrote 66 crime novels and story collections, fourteen plays, and six novels under a pseudonym in romance. Her books sold more than a billion copies in the English language and a billion in translation. According to Index Translationum, people translated her works into 103 languages at least, the most for an individual author. Of the most enduring figures in crime literature, she created Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple. She atuhored The Mousetrap, the longest-running play in the history of modern theater.
Associated Names:
Agata Christie
Agata Kristi
Агата Кристи (Russian)
Агата Крісті (Ukrainian)
Αγκάθα Κρίστι (Greek)
アガサ クリスティ (Japanese)
阿嘉莎·克莉絲蒂 (Chinese)
