The Ace: Lawrence Redding, a handsome young man who apparently 'does everything well'.

WARNING: Heavy unconcealed spoilers ahead. There is also a 1949 play with Barbara Mullen and a graphic novel released by Harper Collins in 2008.Ĭhristie dedicated the book to her daughter and only child, Rosalind Hinks. It was adapted by BBC in 1986 with Joan Hickson in the role of Miss Marple and again by ITV in 2004 with Geraldine McEwan as Miss Marple.

The book is narrated in first person by the vicar, Leonard Clement. It's up to Miss Marple to make sense of this story and find out who really did it. His unfaithful wife and her artist lover both confess to the murder, to the great confusion of Inspector Slack. Then, Protheroe is found murdered in the vicar's study. His daughter wishes he would do a good thing and die, and even the vicar observes that killing him would be a service to the townsfolk. Everyone, that is, except Colonel Protheroe, the most disliked man in the village. In the aforementioned St Mary Mead, there is a general climate of harmony and good-will and everyone gets along.

She is Christie's second most famous but personal favorite detective. She is notable for her ability to draw parallels between murder mysteries and ordinary village incidents. This is the first novel (but not the first story) to feature Miss Marple, the harmless old lady who lives at the idyllic village of St Mary Mead and just happens to constantly bump into murders.

In some cases they will be expanded into longer entries as the Literary Encyclopedia evolves.Detective novel by Agatha Christie. First published 06 February 2004 3409 The Murder at the Vicarage 3 Historical context notes are intended to give basic and preliminary information on a topic. For more information on how to subscribe as an individual user, please see under Individual Subcriptions. You are not a member of a subscribing institution, you will need to purchase a personal Offer, or via your institution's remote access facilities, or by creating a personal user account with your institutional email address. Institution ( see List), you should be able to access the LE onĬampus directly (without the need to log in), and off-campus either via the institutional log in we If you are a member (student of staff) of a subscribing

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