Miss Marple #2
The Body in the Library
But who is she? How did she get there? And what is the connection with another dead girl, whose charred remains are later discovered in an abandoned quarry?
The respectable Bantrys invite Miss Marple to solve the mystery… before tongues start to wag.
Librarian's note: this entry is for the novel "The Body in the Library." 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."
191 pages, Hardcover
First published February 1,1942
This edition
- Format
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191 pages, Hardcover
- Published
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September 1, 2006 by Black Dog \u0026 Leventhal Publishers
- ISBN
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9781579126261
- ASIN
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157912626X
- Language
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English
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Inspector Slack
Slack is the senior officer in charge of many cases in which Miss Marple is featured. He has been described as a man who has never strived to contradict his name. Miss Marple described him as having the same personality as that of a diesel engine, noisy a...
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Conway Jefferson
He is confined to a wheelchair. He is a widower having been injured in a plane crash in which the rest of his family died. He has grown attached to Ruby Keene....
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Ruby Keene
She is 18 years-old and a dancer. She met Conway Jefferson a month or so ago at the Majestic Hotel where she was appearing....
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Adelaide Jefferson
She is the widow of Frank Jefferson who also died in the plane crash; in her 30s, she and her son Peter from a former marriage live in the same house as Conway Jefferson....
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Mark Gaskell
He is the widower of Roasamund, the daughter of Conway Jefferson who also died in the plane crash that killed her mother and brother....
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Josie Turner
A hostess at the Majestic Hotel - she invited her cousin Ruby Keene to work there....
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)
