Joan Hickson
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A young man who has come to the small market town of Lymstock with his sister, Joanna, to recuperate from an accident. An outbreak of poison-pen letters in the village leads to two deaths, the first apparently suicide but the second definitely murder; the letters accuse various villagers of improbable and illicit sexual acts. The vicar's wife, Maud Dane Calthrop, invites her friend Miss Marple to stay at the vicarage, and she solves the puzzle alongside...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
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"Miss Marple encounters a compelling murder mystery in 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 landowner 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...
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Pub. Date
1988.
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Agatha Christie demonstrates her unparalleled mastery with Three Blind Mice and Other Stories-a classic compendium of mystery and suspense, crime and detection, whose title novella served as the basis for The Mousetrap, the longest running stage play in the history of the London theater. A blinding snowstorm-and a homicidal maniac-traps a small party of friends in an isolated estate. Out of this deceptively simple setup, Agatha Christie fashioned...
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c2014
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Completely restored and remastered in stunning high definition, see Agatha Christie's Miss Marple as never before! Joan Hickson, the actress Agatha Christie herself wanted for the role, stars as the shrewd sleuth in four thrilling whodunits: The Murder at the Vicarage, The Moving Finger, The Body in the Library, and A Murder is Announced. Watch as Miss Marple puts her perceptive powers to good use and gets to the bottom of even the most complex crimes...
11) Nemesis
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Miss Jane is in line for a generous inheritance from her late friend Jason if she grants his final wish and solves a crime. She doesn't know what happened, or when, or where. The only clue the sleuth has to work with is one code word: "nemesis."
Pub. Date
2001, c1991
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Murder at the vicarage: Colonel Prothero has lots of enemies in the village of St. Mary Mead and when he's found dead there are plenty of suspects, some with alibis and some with confessions.
Nemesis: Miss Marple receives a cryptic message that sends her on a tour of the historic homes of England. A tour passenger is killed and Miss Marple must right an old wrong.
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[2015]
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Never one to sit idle, Miss Marple finds her luxurious Barbados vacation a bit dull until Major Palgrave's murder turns it into A Caribbean Mystery. Her London stay seems a bit too perfect until she discovers something sinister behind the Edwardian façade At Bertram's Hotel. How can Miss Marple resist visiting the seaside villa of a young couple plagued by terrifying memories of a Sleeping Murder? And how will she solve an unspecified crime in...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
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When her train was travelling parallel to another, Mrs. McGillicuddy witness a man strangling a woman in the passing train. Her efforts to convince the authorities that a murder has been committed are in vain until Miss Marple enters the case and, with the assistance of Inspector Craddock, finds the solution to the baffling, suspensful conclusion.
16) Miss Marple
Pub. Date
2002
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A collection of mysteries involving Agatha Christie's most popular detective, an unassuming little old lady, Miss Marple.
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Agatha Christie's Miss Marple. Set 2 volume 3
Pub. Date
p1991, c2001
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Miss Marple takes a trip to Stonygates to discover why her friend is being poisoned. When shots are fired in a darken room, Miss Marple deduces the identity of the killer but not how it was done.
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Pub. Date
c2001
Description
Two episodes from the Miss Marple television series.
A Caribbean mystery: Miss Marple takes a vacation to the Caribbean and encounters murder and mystery.
The mirror cracked from side to side: Miss Marple tackles a homicide on the set of an American extravaganza being filmed in England.
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[2014-2015]
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The adventures of Jane Marple, an elderly woman who acts as a consulting detective in the village of St. Mary Mead.
Completely restored and remastered in stunning high definition, see Agatha Christie's Miss Marple as never before! Joan Hickson, the actress Agatha Christie herself wanted for the role, stars as the shrewd sleuth in four thrilling whodunits: The Murder at the Vicarage, The Moving Finger, The Body in the Library, and A Murder is Announced....
20) A Deadly Affair
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Love can propel us to our greatest heights... and darkest depths. In this new collection of Agatha Christie short stories, witness the dark side of love-crimes of passion, games of the heart, and deadly affairs. This pulse-pounding compendium of short stories-some featuring beloved detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple-is essential reading that Christie fans old and new will love to death.