Agatha Christie

Miss Marple investigates the death of a stylish blonde who is found murdered in front of a library hearth at Grossington Hall.

A Miss Marple Mystery

The Body in the Library

Boothby

Out of the dim green light Mary’s voice came—breathless, hysterical: “Oh, ma’am, oh, ma’am, there’s a body in the library.”

The deserved rest of Colonel Bantry and his wife Dorothy is suddenly interrupted by the alarming news brought by the maid: they have found the corpse of a young woman in the library. Suddenly, the life of the retired soldier turns around, becoming a victim of the gossip and gossip that circulates about such a sad event that has shocked the entire puritanical community of St. Mary Mead. Dorothy, ready to address any doubts and keep the honor of her distinguished family unblemished, decides to go to her friend Miss Marple, an occasional detective with extraordinary intuitive skills that will determine who and why he has committed such murder precisely in the colonel's house.

Alisa 

This was the perfect voice to listen to this story in.

Nicole Hobson

a fun and cheeky one with maybe one too many characters moving around one too many locations. i love marple's method though, it was able to shine more here than in her first novel. glad she's got herself a watson in this one to coax it out of her (without the trademark spinster slander to go along). as a subversion on an old classic set up, it's just twisty enough but i needed more clues spread out and less saving it all for the end -- it leaves a wonky pace on an otherwise short and cozy by the hotel lounge read

The Body in the Library (Miss Marple Mysteries)

Sarah Sammis

The Body in the Library is an entertaining and easy to read book. Near the end the book rushes to finish as Miss Marple starts jumping to conclusions without sharing most of her insights until the coda chapter. But it's still a fun read.

Aamna

Um corpo na biblioteca: um caso de Miss Marple

renni

Amo demais o jeito que a Miss Marple desvenda os crimes: tudo através de fofoca e de manter um olho no peixe e outro no gato. Maravilhosa!!

Suspeitei desde o início da pessoa que matou mas não pelo motivo certo. Mas acho que vale.
A única coisa que não gostei da história foram os 3 ou 4 detetives investigando ao mesmo tempo. Não conseguia diferenciar nenhum deles e só achei lenga lenga. Deixou tudo mais disperso.

Muito boa a parte que eles falam lá com o filho da Sra. Jefferson que gosta de livros de detetives e fala que tem autógrafos de vários autores e cita a própria Agatha Christie. É a Stan Lee do UK mesmo.
Em geral, gostei bastante! Uma história sobre controle.

Zia Nazaliah Ainisyifa

menurutku terlalu banyak karakter, jadi bingung ngapalinnya :") terus ini gaya bahasanya beneran kek novel2 terjemahan, sebenarnya untuk cerita oke sih, seruu misterinya, tapi membingungkan buat aku hahahaa

Lily Balderston

I found this hard to get into but always love her endings. I had a bunch of guesses but none were right. There’s a show on her miss marple books on Brit box that’s really great and follows the book extremely well except for how the families accident happens, but it completely changed the ending! Made it a bit edgier but I still enjoyed it so if you liked the book check it out. I love seeing books brought to the screen when they’re done right. :)

Liz B

Sarah

4.5⭐️ I can’t believe I was right about who the killer was. Such a good read!

Kirsten Simkiss

I really enjoy Agatha Christie's writing. I particularly enjoy Ms. Marple, whose shrewd mind is oft overlooked by detectives. While I must admit that Mrs. Bantry drives me a little up the wall as a character, the mystery in this one is a lot of fun and probably one of my favorites. Ms. Marple is actually absent for a good chunk, leaving it to the detectives to collect information from people that Ms. Marple has already guessed out due to smaller things she's observed about interactions and the natures of people - as is her mode of operation. All in all, despite Ms. Marple taking a second row seat for large parts of the story, I think the mystery of it is delightful.

I would wholeheartedly recommend this to others.

Vittoria Vespoli 

3,25 

How tf were we suppose to know they were married Im. Cheers

The Body in the Library (Miss Marple)

Madhuri Sridhara

My first Miss Marple case/book. It reads half as a oddball British comedy and rest as an Agatha Christie Novel.

I'd like to get to know Miss Marple better.

Camila Eduarda Vilela Lobianco

Eu quase não fiz resenha desse livro porque, bem, é Agatha Christie, ela não te deixa na mão de forma alguma, mas trouxe para vocês saberem que essa é das boas.

Denise La Greca

Really liked her revisitation of "The body in the library" theme. Such a good plot, I didn't found out who the murder was until the end. I've enjoyed the attention in details of Miss Marple, as always.

Helen Borham

A witty and compelling mystery. This was the first time I have read an Agatha Christie and I enjoyed watching the story play out and the cast of characters included. For me there was no wow factor, just an easy and enjoyable read 

Gabriella Parker

This is the first ever Agatha Christie book that I've read. Agatha has been crowned as the "Queen of Mystery" and I have to say that she has lived up to her expectations and so much more! This book was real page-turner and plot twists really catch you by surprise.

Entertaining and classic, amusing but also a bit confusing sometimes. Great ending, but missing Miss Marple sometimes, as it is mainly police investigating in the beginning. Still, it's our good old lady sleuth who solves another case with excellence and intuition.

Giulia Pianta

This might be my second Agatha Christie book ever. I read it ages ago and right after Murder on the Orient Express but I remember not enjoying it at all.
But looking back, I was young and rather new to the genre, and I had just finished one of the best books by this author. I was expecting Miss Marple to be as invested in the resolution of the mystery as Poirot is, so I was so confused by how little she appears compared to the police detectives.

But this time around I loved it so much!! It was SO much better than I remembered and I ended up enjoying this massively. The mystery is so convoluted and intriguing, and the solution was great! I think I didn't manage to figure it out, I guessed only a couple of things but I really couldn't tell who it was. So brilliant.

Mayra Melo

3.5 stars.

The ending was all over the place in my opinion, there was no reason for two murders. It was all too unnecessarily complicated.

Kath Lau

This is my third read from Miss Marple series. It's quite hard to write a long review of Agatha Christie's books because I feel like I'll just repeat myself for saying how beautiful her works are. The characters are fascinating, the plot twists are brilliant and the writing style is incredibly amazing. I adore Miss Marples' unique way of "investigating" and for being exceptionally clever. As usual, I didn't guess who the real suspect is. I told myself to stop guessing but I can't help it. I also love how Christie decribes the library in this book.

This is the year of audiobooks.

It's a very good Miss Marple installment. I had only read The Murder at the Vicerage before, and found it rather dull and repetitive. This might be changed because of the change in delivety, but I liked The Body in the Library a lot more.

The murder plot was insteresting, and had some twist that wasn't one of those silly, predictable ones you see today. Like most cozy mysteries, the character growth is negligible, and Agatha seems to rely on knowing Miss Marple's history rather than delve into it very much, in fact it felt like she was hardly in the book at times, because I heard so much of other characters chattering or exploring.

A book I did not want to stop listening to at any rate.

Miss Marple works to clear Colonel Bantry of a possible murder charge after a body is found in the library of his home.

C'è un cadavere in biblioteca

Laura Carminati

This is a fairly old book, I read it for the Popsugar challenge “a book set in a bookstore or library” and therefore I had no expectations. I’ve never read anything about Agatha Christie and I do not think I will read anything else about the author. I found this story a bit too simple.

I have a question: isn’t the series titled Miss Marple? Because I met her only twice and I’m on page 47…. I thought she was going to be more present… Maybe in the other books she is more present but not in this one and I’m sad about it.

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Kaitlyn Krna

It was such a pleasure to read this book. I found myself laughing out loud often as I read. I find Miss Jane Marple to be a very likable character. I remember reading a few Miss Marple books when I was in high school and enjoying them. Miss Marple is a very observant woman who has often is able to figure out who the murderer is by drawing parallels between the characters involved and the people she knows from her little village. She's always underestimated and she always comes through.

Unlike with a lot of Christie's other novels, I was able to guess the solution, but that didn't take away from my enjoyment of the novel. The plot is engaging, the writing is humorous, and the characters are well developed.

The Body in the Library A Miss Marple Mystery

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