Joan Hickson
Miss Marple
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Plot summary. The Reverend Leonard Clement, the vicar of St Mary Mead, narrates the story. He lives with his much younger wife Griselda and their nephew Dennis. Colonel Lucius Protheroe, Clement's churchwarden, is a wealthy, abrasive man who also serves as the local magistrate, and is widely disliked in the village.
- Agatha Christie
- 1930
In Murder at the Vicarage, unpopular bully Colonel Protheroe dies from a gunshot wound in the study of St. Mary Mead’s Vicarage. All suspects have an alibi, including the victim’s wife and her lover, who each admits guilt to divert suspicion from the other.
The Murder at the Vicarage is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie which was first serialised in the Chicago Tribune in August 1930. It was first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in October 1930 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year probably in...
The Murder At The Vicarage (Miss Marple #1), Agatha Christie Original Publication Year 1930. Abstract: Debut of Miss Jane Marple, village busybody who applies human nature to crimes. Colonel Protheroe, magistrate universally despised, was shot in his study, unheard.
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Stories. The Murder at the Vicarage. Miss Marple. ⌸ Novel. 1930. ‘Anyone who murdered Colonel Protheroe,’ declared the parson, brandishing a carving knife above a joint of roast beef, ‘would be doing the world at large a favour!’. It was a careless remark for a man of the cloth.
Plot. The Murder at the Vicarage. Marple. Summaries. No one seems surprised when Colonel Protheroe is found murdered in the local vicarage. Red herrings abound, especially when his widow and her lover both confess to the murder. Colonel Lucius Protheroe is probably the least-liked individual in St Mary Mead.
Feb 1, 2012 · When Colonel Protheroe is found murdered in the study of the vicar, it seems that almost everyone in the village of St Mary Mead had a motive to kill him. This is the first case for Agatha Christie's legendary female detective, Miss Marple. She needs to use all her powers of observation and deduction to solve the mystery. GenresMystery.
