Miss Marple #12
Sleeping Murder
Soon after Gwenda moved into her new home, odd things started to happen. Despite her best efforts to modernize the house, she only succeeded in dredging up its past. Worse, she felt an irrational sense of terror every time she climbed the stairs.
In fear, Gwenda turned to Miss Marple to exorcise her ghosts. Have they dredged up a “perfect” crime committed many years before?
Librarian's note: this entry is for the novel, "Sleeping Murder." 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."
242 pages, Hardcover
First published October 1,1976
This edition
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242 pages, Hardcover
- Published
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January 1, 2003 by Dodd Mead
- ISBN
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9780002317856
- ASIN
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0002317850
- Language
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English
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Dr. Haydock
The elderly village doctor. In "The Mirror Crackd ...." he attends on Miss Marple. In "Sleeping Murder" he suggests to Miss Marple that visiting Dillmouth would be a refresher. He works for the police in "Death by Drowning."more...
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Raymond West
West is the nephew of Jane Marple; he is a renowned author who lives in London. He adores his aunt and occasionally sends her on little vacations. He is the host and arranger of the Tuesday Night Club at Miss Marples home in St. Mary Mead. In "A Car...
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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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Gwenda Halliday Reed
A woman of about 20. She has recently married in New Zealand; she and her husband are planning to move to England. She precedes him and buys a house in Dillmouth for them....
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Joan West
The wife of Raymond West. Aka Joyce Lempriere in her earlier days. In Greenshaws Folly, the Wests appear to have moved to the St. Mary Mead area.more...
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)
