231 pages

Published Jan. 6, 1983 by Bantam Books.

ISBN:
978-0-553-35006-7
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OCLC Number:
10869800

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When Colonel Protheroe is found dead from a single gun shot wound to the head, none of his neighbors in the village of St. Mary Mead is much surprised. So many people wished this local official would say farewell, if not quite so permanently. With suspects abound and the local police symied it is up to Miss Jane Marple to root out the killer.

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I am a great fan of Agatha Christie's Miss Marple series though some might find them a bit on the slow side. I enjoy Miss Marple's musings and the quaintness of the English village life.

I think I've read all the Miss Marple books and I think this is the only book that is from a first person point of view that isn't Miss Marple's, but that of the village vicar who finds the dead body in his library.

Of course, the village has all kinds of secrets and those come out as the murderer is tracked down.

If a slow, rich, character study of an English village of yore, this is a good you'll enjoy. All other should stay away.

A solid 5 stars.

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  • Marple, Jane (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.