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Published in 1930, Murder at the Vicarage is Agatha Christie’s first novel featuring the elderly detective Miss Marple. The character first appears in a 1927 short story entitled “The Tuesday Murder Club.”. In Murder at the Vicarage, unpopular bully Colonel Protheroe dies from a gunshot wound in the study of St. Mary Mead’s Vicarage.
The Sittaford Mystery. The Murder at the Vicarage is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in October 1930 [1] and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year. [2] [3] The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence [1] and the US edition at $2.00.
- Agatha Christie
- 256 (first edition, hardcover)
- 1930
- October 1930
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 October or November.[1] The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6) and the US ...
Agatha Christie. 4.05. 189,602 ratings7,534 reviews. ‘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. And one which was to come back and haunt the clergyman just a few ...
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Chapter 1 Summary. Leonard Clement, the Vicar of the village St. Mary Mead sits at his table and scorns the badly cooked food. He vents that anyone who murders Colonel Protheroe would do the world a favor. His nephew Dennis tells him that kind of statement will be troublesome if anyone does murder the Colonel.
Colonel Protheroe is a loud, bullying, intrusive, obnoxious man and is universally disliked, even by his family. His wife is having an affair with Mr Redding. One evening he is murdered while visiting the vicarage. Miss Marple investigates. — grantss. Many of those in the village of St. Mary Mead look with distaste at Colonel Protheroe.
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. And one which was to come back and haunt the clergyman ...
