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Miss Marple's Final Cases

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Originally broadcast to mark the 125th anniversary of Agatha Christie’s birth, these brand-new dramas are based on three of her best short stories. I loved this last collection of short stories by Agatha Christie, most of them featuring Miss Jane Marple. A sweet but flighty domestic named Gladys is fired after being suspected of stealing jewelry from the two sisters that employed her. Christie often stayed at Abney Hall in Cheshire, which was owned by her brother-in-law, James Watts. The text was first published in Volume 3, Issue 64 of the weekly UK magazine Home Journal on 25 May 1935 under the title Behind Closed Doors and with an illustration by Michael Bernard.

Of the actual mystery stories in this collection, perhaps The Tape-Measure Murder or Sanctuary were my favourites.So her good friend and physician, Doctor Haydock, brings her a file with a case he recently had so she can solve the whodunnit. First published in the collection Miss Marple’s Final Cases, these three delightfully clever tales will keep you guessing till the end.

Miss Marple’s Final Cases’ is the first Agatha Christie that I have read and it’s one that I happened across rather than chose to read. The stories Strange Jest, The Case of the Perfect Maid and The Tape-Measure Murder were adapted as episodes of the Japanese anime television series Agatha Christie's Great Detectives Poirot and Marple in 2004. This book of short stories showcases both how clever an author Agatha Christie was and also how enjoyable Miss Marple stories are (ok I know that was badly constructed sentence , to end with "are" ).it is these works that I am looking forward to reading and with some expectation of them displaying more depth, complexity and mystery. Because Bunch ends up becoming almost the protagonist in the story, she is involved in nearly all the action. Jane introduces Miss Marple to a couple, who have a mystery and once again, we're in to the pace, flavor and usual fair that so many of us enjoy from Christie and Miss Marple. A collection of six Miss Marple stories, following the elderly detective as she solves mysterious crimes.

However, that one is more of a real treasure hunt with clues, and this one is that he didn't trust banks and they're just hunting around in the house for what the crazy old fart did with all of his money. However, just as her lawyer friend hoped, the fluffy old lady manages to see a few things that everyone else missed and ends up saving his bacon. I also enjoyed the social changes taking place with each of the books, Miss Marple’s reactions to them, the characters (that AC herself was a great observer of human nature stands out in so many), and even the changes in Miss Marple herself who (when I read the first book this time) was so very different to the impression I had of her and changed as the books progressed. Many of the mysteries were excellent―the puzzles keeping me guessing ( A Murder is Announced, The Body in the Library, 4:50 from Paddington, Sleeping Murder, among them) but there was so much more to them as well.She is best known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, as well as the world’s longest-running play – The Mousetrap. MY THOUGHTS: Is there anything I could say about Christie's Miss Marple that hasn’t been said before?

Their marriage was especially happy in the early years and remained so until Christie's death in 1976. Final Cases’ is a collection of six short Miss Marple stories along with two additional and somewhat eerie stories of the supernatural. Yet Agatha Christie was always a very private person, and though Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple became household names, the Queen of Crime was a complete enigma to all but her closest friends. The Greenway Estate in Devon, acquired by the couple as a summer residence in 1938, is now in the care of the National Trust.The latest audio edition includes an additional short story, originally published in The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding collection, Greenshaw's Folly. This collection of tales, seven of them featuring Agatha Christie’s much loved Miss Marple, plus two stand-alone stories, is a treasure trove. In a Glass Darkly” was certainly the creepiest of the lot, not exactly a supernatural story but with a touch of the uncanny that made it very enjoyable indeed. She is the creator of two of the most enduring figures in crime literature-Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple-and author of The Mousetrap, the longest-running play in the history of modern theatre.

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