While I’m a fan of Christie’s Poirot (as much to do with the David Suchet series being on the telly a lot when I was younger as the books), I’m not as familiar with Miss Marple. A friend has recently been on a big Christie binge which encouraged me to seek this out and I’m rather glad that I did as it was a lot of fun. Narrated by the vicar (at whose vicarage the murder occurred) it was full of the misdirection and red herrings that Christie was famous for. The vicar is a pleasant sort of character with enough bite to dislike the police detective assigned to the case and to take some pleasure in the way that Miss Marple solves it in front of him. That sort of pettiness very much endeared him to me (but then, I can be a rather petty person myself).
There were some threads that I think I either failed to understand or weren’t explained (like who was sending the anonymous notes about the vicar’s wife, and why) but all in all it was a great read and, in line with tradition, I completely failed to spot whodunnit.
