The Murder at the Vicarage (Miss Marple)

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Abstract: Debut of Miss Jane Marple, village busybody who applies human nature to crimes. Colonel Protheroe, magistrate universally despised, was shot in his study, unheard. His wife Anne admits newly arrived artist Lawrence Redding is an old flame, and both confess to murder. The local inspector and Jane sort through to the truth. As you can imagine, no other citizen has more to offer in the solving of said crime than our Miss Marple. That woman misses nothing, usually because she's spying on everyone from the comfort of her garden. In late 1926, Agatha's husband, Archie, revealed that he was in love with another woman, Nancy Neele, and wanted a divorce. On 8 December 1926 the couple quarreled, and Archie Christie left their house, Styles, in Sunningdale, Berkshire, to spend the weekend with his mistress at Godalming, Surrey. That same evening Agatha disappeared from her home, leaving behind a letter for her secretary saying that she was going to Yorkshire. Her disappearance caused an outcry from the public, many of whom were admirers of her novels. Despite a massive manhunt, she was not found for eleven days. Agatha Christie writes about very different characters trying to live in a small town where nothing ever happens - until this highly disliked man is murdered at the vicarage. As the novel is written from the first-person-perspective of the vicar, Leonard Clement, the reader has to rely on his observations, which made it even harder to guess the outcome of the murder mystery. After all, the author managed to write complicated and confusing murder mysteries with nearly no loose ends, however, something else fell by the wayside: the characters. With nearly no character development or interesting relationships present, it is hardly possible to get invested into the plot itself, and with Miss Marple being only a side character, the most interesting part of the novel was ignored for most of the time. Agatha Christie's Marple (ITV series) [ ] Main article: The Murder at the Vicarage (Agatha Christie's Marple episode)

The centre of the village was the Vicarage, a very grand Victorian structure at the end of the Lane. The Vicarage was home to the Vicar, Leonard Clement, his pretty young wife, Griselda, with their nephew, Dennis, and later with their two sons, Leonard and David.

The quaint, sleepy village was home to the renowned detective spinster Miss Marple. However, Christie first described a village of that name prior to Marple's introduction, in the 1928 Hercule Poirot novel The Mystery of the Blue Train. In that novel, St Mary Mead is home to the book's protagonist Katherine Grey. The village was first mentioned in a Miss Marple book in 1930, when it was the setting for the first Marple novel, The Murder at the Vicarage. Like a Publisher's dream, I promptly bought the entire set. Then with all of these precious new softcovers in hand, I thought, when I am going to read all of these? There is no detective in England equal to a spinster lady of uncertain age with plenty of time on her hands. Es un libro con un caso tan distinto a los de Poirot y por eso me encantó ya que juega mucho más con el humor situacional. Tiene una narrativa desenfadada y con muchísima ironía, comedia e intervenciones brillantes. Y la revelación del crimen, que ciertamente ya ha pasado una igual anteriormente aún así se convierte en uno de los casos de que más me sorprendió. In both versions, the vicar's role is reduced and he does not participate in the investigation since his presence as the narrator was unnecessary in a filmed version.

All appearances point to St. Mary Mead being the usual English small town. It has its share of colorful inhabitants, but for the most part it's a rather peaceful place. Lawrence Redding: a painter who fought in World War I. He uses a building on the vicarage property as his studio. Me encantó miss Marple a pesar del poco protagonismo también Griselda y Mary, quienes tenían unos comentarios demasiado chistosos. Y el otro trío de chismosas es igual de interesante. El inspector encargado del caso es feroz, antipático e imponente y no se deja ayudar a menos que él lo permita o lo ordene pero al final recibe un poco de su medicina. Y el protagonista (el vicario), no retrasa, sino que añade al hilo conductor más sentido ya que él trata con todo el pueblo y muchos recurren a él. Main article: Murder at the Vicarage (play) Television adaptations [ edit ] British adaptations [ edit ] Christie herself later wrote: "Reading Murder at the Vicarage now, I am not so pleased with it as I was at the time. It has, I think, far too many characters, and too many sub-plots. But at any rate the main plot is sound." [10] Allusions in other novels [ edit ]Dame Agatha Christie is the queen of mystery writers who all modern aspirants strive to emulate. I enjoy reading her cases featuring detective Hercule Poirot because he knows the outcome well before the reader. Christie's cases are multilayered and keep unraveling until a book's conclusion. Enjoying these thought provoking cases, I decided to introduce myself to her other famous sleuth, Miss Jane Marple. There is no better place to start than Murder at the Vicarage, the book that introduced Miss Marple to the world. The novel was adapted as a 2016 episode of the French television series Les Petits Meurtres d'Agatha Christie. The youngest of three children of the Miller family. The Millers had two other children: Margaret Frary Miller (1879–1950), called Madge, who was eleven years Agatha's senior, and Louis Montant Miller (1880–1929), called Monty, ten years older than Agatha. It was difficult to rate this book. I wanted to do more justice to Agatha Christie and her brilliant mind, but my conscience nags at me; it tells me that in honesty I was not drawn into the story as I normally do when I read her novels. So here I'm divided and trying to justice to her and me both.