Book Review: The Murder at the Vicarage - A. Christie

In this novel first make her appearance Miss Marple, an old lady who lives near the vicarage and whose knows a lot about all the people of the little village and has very fine observation skills.

Every time I read a novel by Agatha Christie I am amazed at how brilliant her mind was in plotting crimes and in making every day to day situations into a possible motive, always keeping an underlining sense of humour.

I just love her!

Overall rating:  7,5     Plot: 7     Writing style: 8      Cover:  7

Title: The Murder at the vicarage

Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: Plant Three publishing
Pages: 
Publication year: 1930

Plot:

Miss Marple is led on her first case to a crime scene at the local vicarage. Colonel Protheroe, the magistrate whom everyone in town hates, has been shot through the head. No one heard the shot. There are no leads. Yet, everyone surrounding the vicarage seems to have a reason to want the Colonel dead. It is a race against the clock as Miss Marple sets out on the twisted trail of the mysterious killer without so much as a bit of help from the local police.

The Author:

Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE was an English writer. She is known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around her fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. Born in Torquay in 1890, she died in 1976.

Christie was born into a wealthy upper-middle-class family in Torquay, Devon. Before marrying and starting a family in London, she had served in a Devon hospital during the First World War, tending to troops coming back from the trenches. She was initially an unsuccessful writer with six rejections, but this changed when The Mysterious Affair at Styles, featuring Hercule Poirot, was published in 1920. During the Second World War she worked as a pharmacy assistant at University College Hospital, London, during the Blitz and acquired a good knowledge of poisons which featured in many of her subsequent novels.