Miss Marple #9
A Caribbean Mystery
The Tiny Carribean island of St. Honore is a tropical paradise. But for Miss Marple, enjoying a well-earned rest from her busy life in the village of St. Mary Mead, it is a place where nothing ever seems to happen. Until old Major Palgrave tells her the strange story of a suspected double murderer.
As rumors begin to circulate, the elderly sleuth is not alone in suspecting that things are not as they seem. And when a death that is indisputably murder occurs, Miss Marple finds an unlikely ally in the cantakerous crippled millionaire Mr. Rafiel.
0 pages, Audio CD
First published January 1,1964
This edition
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0 pages, Audio CD
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October 9, 2006 by BBC Audiobooks America
- ISBN
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9781572705494
- ASIN
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1572705493
- Language
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English
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Mr. Rafiel
He first appears in "A Caribbean Mystery." A rich and difficult old man with health problems. He grows to admire Miss Marple and calls her "Nemesis." In the book of that title, he has died and sets her on a challenging task.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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Major Palgrave
A retiree who drinks too much, talks too much, and seems to have high blood pressure....
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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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Tim Kendall
Tim and his wife Molly own a hotel in St. Honore which Miss Marple visits....
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Molly Kendall
The lovely wife of Tim Kendall. They own the hotel. She worries about his health....
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)
