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Books : Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories
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Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories by: Agatha Christie List Price: £7.99 CD-Charts Price: £4.49 You Save: £3.50 (44%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 813 EAN: 9780006499626 ISBN: 0006499627 Label: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd Manufacturer: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd Number Of Pages: 368 Publication Date: July 10, 1997 Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd Studio: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd Sales Rank: 5633 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Not her bestReadable enough, but these short stories are not the best from the Queen of Crime - just a little too pat and contrived. Rating: - Not one of Christie's bestI am a fan of Agatha Christie and have read all of her Miss Marple novels. I'd not previously managed to catch up with her short stories and wanted to take this opportunity to enjoy that quaint spinster aunt with a grasp on human nature that surpasses even the Scotland Yard's. While a fan of Miss Marple, I felt that this book was not up to par with the other stories about her. Perhaps the nature of short stories made it difficult to create the same atmosphere as in Christie's novels. The solutions were simply too obvious. However, Miss Marple was to a certain degree her "good ol' self", and that did make up for the flaws. Rating: - Dear Aunt Jane's Shorter Cases."Miss Marple insinuated herself so quickly into my life that I hardly noticed her arrival," Agatha Christie wrote in her posthumously-published autobiography (1977) about the elderly lady who, next to Belgian super-sleuth Hercule Poirot, quickly became one of her most beloved characters. Somewhat resembling Christie's own grandmother and her friends, although "far more fussy and spinsterish" and "not in any way a picture" of the author's granny, like her, she had a certain gift for prophecy and, "though a cheerful person, she always expected the worst of everyone and everything, and was, with almost frightening accuracy, usually proved right." Although Christie herself considered Miss Marple her favorite creation - preferred even ... Read More: Rating:  - Great book, wrong photoTo start with, the book is just great. I knew it when I ordered it, because I had one copy of it already. I ordered it once over, along with all the three volumes of the Miss Marple Omnibus containing all the tweltwe novels for one single purpose, to have four books of the same design containing all stories (short stories and novels) about Miss Marple. The problem is as follows - what I got was a book of the same edition I already had and that does not correspond with the cover photo available on amazon.co.uk So, to conclude it, I can only recommend this book but if you want a complete collection with the same cover design, beware, you may end up like I did. Rating: - A compelling challenge for those who enjoy puzzlesMysterious drownings, wallpaper changing colour, and mysterious bodies found in churches, who else could pull together such a varied mix of oddities other than the great Agatha Christie; who else could solve them other than the great Miss Marple. In this collection one of the most unlikely of detectives reflects on past crimes and puzzles, unravelling them as if she was unravelling a ball of wool (which is hard not to imagine in her lap). For all those people who, like myself, like puzzles there is an added bonus. The reader can solve all of the stories, all stories make sense and it is this that will stop you putting this book down. If one had to pick a single word to describe the book, or at least the stories within, "compelling" ... Read More: |
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