Read by Richard E. Grant
The Murder at the Vicarage is Agatha Christie’s first mystery to feature the beloved investigator Miss Marple—as a dead body in a clergyman’s study proves to the indomitable sleuth that no place, holy or otherwise, is a sanctuary from homicide.
Miss Marple encounters a compelling murder mystery in the sleepy little village of St. Mary Mead, where under the seemingly peaceful exterior of an English country village lurks intrigue, guilt, deception and death.
Colonel Protheroe, local magistrate and overbearing land-owner is the most detested man in the village. Everyone--even in the vicar--wishes he were dead. And very soon he is--shot in the head in the vicar's own study. Faced with a surfeit of suspects, only the inscrutable Miss Marple can unravel the tangled web of clues that will lead to the unmasking of the killer.
Karoliina
10.3.2026
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Milla
18.9.2022
Agatha Christie really is the master - she understands perfectly how to set the scene, clues, red herrings and the characters. She always introduces shades of grey: sometimes people do the wrong things for right reasons, sometimes they are foolish and good-hearted. The backdrop is the sleepy village of St Mary Meade and the pre-war English upper and middle class society where letters and visitations and dinners and servants are common and jobs not so much. I can't tell if it's nostalgia that makes this so appealing to me, but the characters work, the plot works - and in the centre is the gentle and adorably nosy Miss Marple who not only is probably the most intelligent person in the village but also a great judge of character and human nature. A lot of this is very cliched by now - fumbling police detective, multitude of secrets that don't really matter, presentation of hints and clues and the neat conclusion that ties it up in the end. But this is where it started, and it's really hard to find anyone who rivals it. For the audiobook - Richard E Grant is simply divine, couldn't ask for more.
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