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A Murder is Announced (Marple Facsimile Edition) (Hardcover)

by Agatha Christie (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 256 pages
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd; Marple Facsimile ed edition (7 Nov 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0007208464
  • ISBN-13: 978-0007208463
  • Product Dimensions: 18.2 x 12.6 x 3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 169,741 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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A facsimile first edition hardback of the Miss Marple books, published to mark the 75th anniversary of her first appearance and to celebrate her new-found success on television. When The Murder at the Vicarage was published in October 1930, little did the literary world realise that Agatha Christie, already famous for her early Poirot titles, was introducing a character who would become the best-loved female sleuth of all time. The 14 Marple books would appear at intervals over the next 49 years, with Miss Marple's Final Cases published in 1979, three years after Agatha's death. To mark the 75th anniversary of Miss Marple's first appearance, and to celebrate her renewed fortunes as a primetime television star, this collection of facsimile first editions will be the perfect way to enjoy these books in their original form -- 12 novels and two short story collections. Reproducing the original typesetting and formats from the first editions from the Christie family's own archive copies, these books sport the original covers which have been painstakingly restored from the best available copies, reflecting five decades of iconic cover design.


About the Author

Agatha Christie was born in Torquay in 1890 and became, quite simply, the best-selling novelist in history. Her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, written towards the end of the First World War, introduced us to Hercule Poirot, who was to become the most popular detective in crime fiction since Sherlock Holmes. She is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and another billion in over 100 foreign languages. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 19 plays, and six novels under the name of Mary Westmacott.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars brilliant Christie, 21 May 2007
By Roman Clodia (London) - See all my reviews
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This is one of my favourite Miss Marple Christie's, with all the usual suspects out in full force: the village complete with anglo-indian colonels and dodgy left-overs from the war, the elaborately constructed murder, the dropping in of clues - all glorious stuff!
Here Miss Marple meets Dermot Craddock for the first time, and has to help him solve the crime 'aanounced' in the local papers.
So what if no-one would in a million years ever to choose to murder someone in that way? This is perfect rainy sunday afternoon fare, preferably with tea, sandwiches and (home-baked) scones!
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Blast from the past, 29 Jul 2008
By I. Gilbert "Ian Gilbert" (Belgium) - See all my reviews
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Only 8 shillings and sixpence! What an absolute bargain.

A very canny idea from Harper Collins - release Christie's books as they first appeared. Not only do you get the post-war, English murder mystery we expect but we get it in a version that compliments the book's contents.

I know I'm judging a book by it's cover but why not when that has to be the main selling point (or buying point) for this particular edition. The dust cover's review of 'this latest crime story' and 'the most recent detective novel,' recreate the excitement of a new release when the novel itself is nearly sixty years old. The book, quite simply, takes you back.

As for the story itself - well - very few people can have a doubt about what they are getting there. And if you don't know please do something about it quickly. This is a good novel (Christies 50th) with the author knowing every trick going. Motives and deception are everywhere and it takes Miss Marple to make sense of it all. And 'No' I didn't have a clue who it was until the end. What more could you want?
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