![]() ![]() The police are called in and begin their investigation. The action starts in the Bantry's home, Gossington Hall, where the body is discovered. ![]() Although I preferred the use of first person narrative in the first book, it would not have worked well for this one. In this novel, Christie uses the third person. This second novel featuring Miss Marple was not published until twelve years later, although there was a book of short stories published in 1932. ![]() In that book, published in 1930, the story is told in first person narrative, by the vicar in St. I read the first novel in the Miss Marple series ( Murder at the Vicarage) in January. Who is the murdered young girl and who could possibly have killed her? Suspicion falls on Dolly’s husband, a man with a reputation as a flirt, who swears he never met the young woman – but why was she found in his library? From the synopsis of the book at the official Agatha Christie website:ĭolly Bantry wakes in her beautiful home in the quiet village of St Mary Mead everything is perfect until the shocking discovery of a body in the library. ![]()
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