The Body in the Library (Miss Marple #3)

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Colonel Bantry has found the strangled body of an exotic blonde bombshell lying on his library hearth and the neighbors are beginning to talk When Miss Marple takes an interest, though, things begin to move along nicely, and its all far convoluted and sordid than the genteel Bantrys could have imagined.A curmudgeonly financier, his self absorbed adult children, a couple of pragmatic and clever hotel workers, tons of money and influence, a wild local lad, some smitten girls, the film business, mix into a classic Christie plot filled with twists, turns, and double backs galore Plus the glorious settings of A Great House, a fancy Hotel, and an excessively genteel little village, and let s not forget Miss Marple Free Download [ The Body in the Library (Miss Marple #3) ] By [ Agatha Christie ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr Last year the reading the detectives group read through Agatha Christie s Miss Marple mysteries as a yearly challenge Having joined the group late, I did not have a chance to read all of the Queen of Crime s cases featuring her famous spinster sleuth As I participated in the challenge when I could, I came to appreciate Miss Marple as an everyday detective who is a champion for the average person Using her quality of reading human nature to solve cases, Miss Marple became a favorite crime figh Last year the reading the detectives group read through Agatha Christie s Miss Marple mysteries as a yearly challenge Having joined the group late, I did not have a chance to read all of the Queen of Crime s cases featuring her famous spinster sleuth As I participated in the challenge when I could, I came to appreciate Miss Marple as an everyday detective who is a champion for the average person Using her quality of reading human nature to solve cases, Miss Marple became a favorite crime fighter of mine as the year drew on When this year s classic bingo board in the group catching up on classics featured a classic mystery square, I used...It had been a while since I read an Agatha Christie novel I combed through the list of her work and thought to myself I m not actually sure if I ever read this one And it turned out, I hadn t Now I want to watch a TV version to see how they interpret it.Great story So much has been re done from this early on work It s a must read for Christie fans and truly any mystery buff When you are rich, and you have people who take care of things and it s nearly 100 years ago what does one d It had been a while since I read an Agatha Christie novel I combed through the list of her work and thought to myself I m not actually sure if I ever read this one And...I confess to absolutely loving Dame Agatha Christie s books I find the coziness of them very soothing Miss Marple s character becomesrounded as we see her interact with her friends Even though there were less action in this book, but I don t think that dooms it to being a bad book, it s just a change of pace, which is often refreshing.In the author s foreword Christie writesI laid down for myself certain conditions The library i...There s a small note to the reader at the very beginning of this novel in which Agatha Christie basically writes, the trope of the body in the library is very common throughout detective fiction so I wrote this novel to fuck shit up Good old Agatha This is a Miss Marple story well I think it is, because our beloved Miss Jane Marple is in fact missing from quite a lot of this novel Thankfully the crime is exciting enough for us to overlook that minor setback It s a classic Christie, f There s a small note to the reader at the very beginning of this novel in which Agatha Christie basically writes, the trope of the body in the library is very common throughout d...Someone here on Goodreads has a shelf called cozy mysteries and I think this is a perfect description of Agatha Christie s Miss Marple series.You can t get much cozier than a tea drinking elderly spinster in a tiny English village The Body in the Library is a clever little book Miss Marple is called in to investigate when her friend finds a dead body in the library What I enjoy about Christie is she doesn t take her mysteries too seriously There s lots of room for humorous little bits I Someone here on Goodreads has a shelf called cozy mysteries and I think this is a perfect description of Agatha Christie s Miss Marple series.You can t get much cozier than a tea drinking elderly spinster in a tiny English village The Body in the L...When a peroxide blonde is found dead in the library at Gossington Hall, Colonel and Mrs Bantry are perplexed However, Mrs Bantry is determined that the crime should be solved, aware that suspicion will fall on her husband no smoke without fire and wisely calls in Miss Marple When the body is identified as Ruby Keene, a dance hostess at the Hotel Majestic in Danemouth, Dolly Bantry and Miss Marple head off for a short break to do a spot of s...What a pleasure it was to reread this book The first time I read a Miss Marple mystery story,l I was in my early teens and did not appreciate just how smart the woman is She s very observant, and remembers little things about people, and draws parallels between different people to figure out who could have done it the murder, that is ..., , , , , , , , , , , , ,,, , Rating 4 solid stars of fiveThe novel, surprisingly, holds up well to a 21st century re read I was so pleased not to find anything shouting at me, oh dear gawd please don t say that Slut shaming, a huge component of the novel, isn t something unique to the times it is set in It was a pleasure not having anything other than that and class snobbery to overlook But goodness me, what a lot of it there was The film people were ever so louche, my dear, just Not Our Sort, soAmerican, you kn Rating 4 solid stars of fiveThe novel, surprisingly, holds up well to a 21st century re read I was so pleased not to find anything shouting at me, oh dear gawd please don t say that Slut shaming, a huge component of the novel, isn t something unique to the times it is set in It was a pleasure not having anything other than that and class snobbery to overlook But goodness me, what a lot of it there was The film people were ever so louche, my dear, just Not Our Sort, soAmerican, you know The dead girl A Platinum Blonde, one ofThose Girls chicken s ass face and doubtless not one smidgen better than she should be Later it is revealed she was a virgin, you old cow But what divine fun An actual fictional Body In The Library Cliche central, send up a cheap one Then Dame Agatha does her magic, the sort that turns things inside out, and it s the library that s the red herring, the body that s the clue, and the mystery itself isn t about ANY of those ...

The Body in the Library (Miss Marple #3)
  • English
  • 24 August 2018
  • Hardcover
  • 191 pages
  • 157912626X
  • Agatha Christie
  • The Body in the Library (Miss Marple #3)