A quiet English villageA shocking murderAn unlikely detectiveA quiet English villageA shocking murderAn unlikely detectiveNobody liked Colonel Protheroe.So when he’s found dead in the vicarage study, there’s no absence of suspects in the seemingly peaceful village of St Mary Mead.In fact, Jane Marple can think of at least seven.As gossip abounds in the parlours and kitchens of the parish, everyone becomes an amateur detective.The police dismiss her as a prying busybody, but only the ingenious Miss Marple can uncover the truth . . .Never underestimate Miss Marple.‘Agatha Christie is the gateway drug to crime fiction both for readers and for writers.’Val McDermid‘Always keeps her reader enthralled and guessing to the end.’Times Literary Supplement‘Without a doubt, the greatest mystery writer of all time’ – Ragnar Jonasson‘A hundred years after her first novel, and we are all still standing in her shadow’ – Andrew Taylor‘She gives us an insight into human nature that few, if any, have surpassed’ – Susan Lewis‘Dame Agatha has sold more books than all besides Shakespeare and the Bible’ – David Baldacci‘All crime fiction writers around the globe owe Agatha Christie a massive debt’ – Peter James‘Reading a perfectly plotted Agatha Christie is like crunching into a perfect apple: that pure, crisp, absolute satisfaction.’ – Tana FrenchAgatha Christie is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in English with another billion in over 70 foreign languages. She is the most widely published author of all time and in any language, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 20 plays, and six novels written under the name of Mary Westmacott.• The Murder at the Vicarage was Agatha Christie’s first Miss Marple novel and was an instant success.• Market research shows that two out of three of all fiction readers have read an Agatha Christie book, and more than half want to read her again.• Read by Richard E. Grant.• Complete and unabridged.Competition: death on the nile;the;body in the library;at bertram’s hotel;nemesis;thursday murder club;tuesday club murders;midwinter murder;marple: twelve new stories. by;sophie hannah;val mcdermid;richard osman;kate mosse;dreda say mitchell;lucy foley;elly griffiths;jean kwok;natalie haynes;karen mcmanus
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