Name: The Murder at the Vicarage
ISBN: 9780451199782

The Murder at the Vicarage

Murder at the Vicarage (1930)is the first Miss Marple mystery book by Agatha Christie. Miss Jane Marple is a village busybody who applies human nature to crimes. Colonel Protheroe, magistrate universally despised, was shot in his study, unheard. His wife Anne admits newly arrived artist Lawrence Redding is an old flame, and both confess to murder. The local inspector and Miss Marple sort through to the truth.

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projektirDec 2018

Funny, The Murder at the Vicarage was the book I started with about a year ago and I was _hooked_.

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emptybitsDec 2025

There wasn't easy hover text or other way to reveal what's coming "this month" on their advent calendar. So spoilers for the impatient:

   1 William Faulkner – As I Lay Dying
   2 Arthur Ransome – Swallows and Amazons
   3 Albert Einstein
   4 Nan Shepherd – The Weatherhouse
   5 Langston Hughes – Not Without Laughter
   6 Wallace Stevens
   7 Hermann Hesse – Narcissus and Goldmund
   8 All Quiet on the Western Front (1930 film)
   9 Barbara Hepworth
  10 Evelyn Waugh – Vile Bodies
  11 Geoffrey Dennis – The End of the World
  12 Charlie Parker
  13 Margaret Ayer Barnes – Years of Grace
  14 Hellbound Train
  15 Hannah Arendt
  16 Robert Musil – The Man Without Qualities
  17 T. S. Eliot – Ash Wednesday
  18 Thomas Mann
  19 Agatha Christie – The Murder at the Vicarage
  20 Franz Kafka – The Castle (English translation)
  21 Walker Evans
  22 Sigmund Freud – Civilization and Its Discontents
  23 Stella Benson – The Far-Away Bride
  24 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
  25 E. H. Young – Miss Mole
  26 P. G. Wodehouse
  27 Vladimir Nabokov – The Defense
  28 Dashiell Hammett – The Maltese Falcon
  29 Roger Mais
  30 Saadat Hasan Manto
  31 Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz – Insatiability

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interfixusDec 2018

The Murder at the Vicarage was the first non childrens' book I ever read, albeit in a translation to my native language. I was eight at the time, and found it enjoyable enough, even if it didn't really leave a lasting impression.

Recently, fifty years later, I tried to reread, solely for nostalgic reasons. And must confess agreement with Wilson as quoted: The thing was wooden, flat, and ultimately unreadable - I opted out halfway.

In contrast, a couple of years ago, I read straight through the Peter Wimsey novels, and absolute found them still worthwhile. Wouldn't have cracked them at eight, though. 14 or 15 first time around.

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