Miss Marple

Miss Marple is my favorite slueth.  I won't call her a detective because that was not her profession, but she was, and still is the best.  Poirot was a detective by profession, and made mistakes.  Not that sweet elderly woman, Miss Marple.  She waited and calculated, compared, but I can't remember her making a mistake, at least not a deadly one.  I have a facination with murder mysteries, specifically when the sleuth is female, showing the intelligence of us females - but I will read other mysteries also.  I prefer to read an entire series, cronologically.  I feel it's more satisfying, because later books may refer to earlier stories and characters.  It bothers me if I don't know what or who they are referring to.  When I was younger I watched the series of Miss Marple shows filmed in the early eighties and fell in love with them.  It was the beginning of my love of everything British.  This was also the first series I read.  I decided to print out Ms Christie's entire catalog, but then found out that there are two names for some of the same books.  I would look for a title and a certain chain would say it didn't exist, but when I looked for it on eBay, they would say "aka..."  I decided to post all of the information that I know about her books, after researching them for the past five years.  I hope this is useful to someone.

  Joan Hickson 

1930  Murder at the Vicarage

1932  The Tuesday Club Murders aka The 13 Problems

1942  The Body in the Library

1942  The Moving Finger

1950  A Murder is Announced

1952  They Do It with Mirrors aka Murder with Mirrors

1953  A Pocket Full of Rye

1957  4:50 from Paddington aka What Mrs. Magillicuddy Saw

1960 Greenshaw's Folly, in Poirot's 'The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding'

1962  The Mirror Cracked from Side to Side aka Mirror Crack'd

1964  A Caribbean Mystery

1965  At Bertram's Hotel

1971  Nemesis (a continuation of A Caribbean Mystery, in a way)

1976  Sleeping Murder (written 1940)

1979 Miss Marple's Final Cases and Two Other Stories (written 1939 & 1954)

1950  Three Blind Mice (3 stories)

Comments

[carolyn]

Miss Marple is one of my favourites too Kim. I read all of the books she was featured in oh too long ago to tell, and have recently been rereading some. They are as goos today as they were then.