192 pages
English language
Published Sept. 1, 2006
The Body in the Library (Miss Marple #3)
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The Body in the Library is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in February 1942 and in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in May of the same year. The US edition retailed at $2.00 and the UK edition at seven shillings and sixpence. The novel features her fictional amateur detective Miss Marple. The novel concerns the murders of two teenaged girls of outwardly similar appearance. One was an 18-year-old dancer, and the other was a 16-year-old Girl Guide with aspirations to an acting career. Jane Marple eventually uncovers the murderer. The story begins at St Mary Mead, the setting of the first Marple novel. The novel's main setting is a seaside resort hotel. Contemporary reviewers liked the shrewd feminine viewpoint, though missing Poirot. Robert Barnard praised the novel for its relative realism, comparing it with …
The Body in the Library is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in February 1942 and in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in May of the same year. The US edition retailed at $2.00 and the UK edition at seven shillings and sixpence. The novel features her fictional amateur detective Miss Marple. The novel concerns the murders of two teenaged girls of outwardly similar appearance. One was an 18-year-old dancer, and the other was a 16-year-old Girl Guide with aspirations to an acting career. Jane Marple eventually uncovers the murderer. The story begins at St Mary Mead, the setting of the first Marple novel. The novel's main setting is a seaside resort hotel. Contemporary reviewers liked the shrewd feminine viewpoint, though missing Poirot. Robert Barnard praised the novel for its relative realism, comparing it with the lack of realism in P.D. James' novel An Unsuitable Job for a Woman.