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The Body in the Library (Hardcover)

by Agatha Christie (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 176 pages
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd; centenary ed edition (6 Aug 1990)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0002237733
  • ISBN-13: 978-0002237734
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 3,726,535 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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One of the six Centenary Editions published in August 1990 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of this famous crime writer.

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. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A body in the first chapter., 10 Aug 2004
By John Austin "austinjr@bigpond.net.au" (Kangaroo Ground, Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Body in the Library: (Miss Marple) (Paperback)
Agatha Christie dedicated her 1941 crime novel, "The Body In the Library", with affection to her brother-in-law who had expressed a wish to find a body in the first chapter of her next book. Agatha Christie so contrived a response that the body could be found in the library at Gossington Hall, home of Colonel and Mrs Bantry, neighbours of her famous spinster sleuth Miss Marple.

Accordingly, readers can expect to be entertained by mystery and mayhem, fortified by tea and sympathy, culminating in a well-explained denouement. Many of this writer's former conjuring tricks as well as one or two new one are provided, framed in a setting that has similarities to that of Dorothy L Sayers' "Have His Carcase", and re-working a formula used previously in her own "Death On the Nile". You might, like me, consider that the writer withholds too much information that might facilitate identifying the guilty, but a check will show that she provides clues (although well hidden) during the entertainment.

As cozy as they come, and with less thrills and action than most, this is one of Agatha Christie's better middle order crime novels.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book, shame this reading is abridged, 23 Jun 2008
By Ms. L. R. Fisher "lucy_fisher4" (London) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Body in the Library (Audio Cassette)
Ian Masters reads competently, but you really need the full text to appreciate the setting and the characters. The action mainly takes place in an upmarket seaside hotel in the 30s that provides bridge and dancing partners. The characters range from the wealthy Bantries through the louche film industry hanger-on Basil Blake to the dancers themselves (one of them is the body). Christie turns a beady but not unsympathetic eye on their "cheap finery" and attempts to make a living while fawning on their rich customers.
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3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A great mystery, one of the best ones ever written!, 15 Dec 2005
By Kurt A. Johnson (Marseilles, IL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Body in the Library (Miss Marple) (Hardcover)
When the body of a murdered young woman is found in their library, the Bantry's bring in their old friend, Jane Marple. There's a mystery within a mystery here: who is the murdered girl, and how did she get from where she was last seen to the Bantry's library? There are suspects galore, but only one person can possible get to the truth - Miss Marple!

Jane Marple was the literary creation of that most famous of English mystery writers, Agatha Christie (1890-1976). For those of you unfamiliar with Miss Marple, she was your stereotypical elderly spinster-lady, who loves to gossip and grow her flowers. But, even more, she has a razor-sharp mind that she uses to solve mysteries, using her own brand of lateral thinking that allows her see clearer than anyone else around her.

This is actually Agatha Christie's third Miss Marple novel, written in 1942. (The first one was The Murder at the Vicarage (1930), and the second one was Sleeping Murder, which was written in 1940 but locked away to be published after Ms. Christie's death in 1976.) Overall, I found this to be a fascinating read. If you love a good mystery, then get this book - it is a great mystery, one of the best ones ever written. I give this book my highest recommendations!

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Murder in Chapter One, Brilliant Amateur Detecting and Wonderful Village Gossip
The title `The Body in the Library' kind of gives away just what is coming in the opening pages. Yes that's right, the Bantry household awakes to find that there is indeed a body... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Simon Savidge Reads

4.0 out of 5 stars A great read
This is a highly enjoyable book and I think it was a great read. Unfortunately, I read a review on amazon.com ( not .co.uk ) that spoilt the ending for me. Read more
Published on 13 Aug 2007 by I AM ME

4.0 out of 5 stars A Christie's classic
One of Agatha Christie's classic novels, 'The body in the library' is again a story on a murder. Unlike other novels by the same author (but again very much like some other ones... Read more
Published on 27 Oct 2002

4.0 out of 5 stars Classic Murder Mystery
A classic murder mystery from 'the acknowledged queen of detective fiction'.

The body of a dead girl with blonde hair and wearing a 'tawdry satin' dress is found in the library... Read more

Published on 4 May 2002

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best!!!!
I was just casually looking over some books when i saw that this had been rated only 4 stars. This had to change!!! Read more
Published on 31 Aug 2001

5.0 out of 5 stars Most unexpected end
As in all of Agatha Christies book, you do not know who is the murdrer until the end. I thought that the whole book was interesting, not only the end. Read more
Published on 15 Jan 2001

3.0 out of 5 stars From a reader and fan from Bath. Good but a bit boring.
This book was very good but I was not very impressed by most of the book until the end. It is about a body that is found in a wealthy couple's library, but it is a body they have... Read more
Published on 17 Aug 2000

4.0 out of 5 stars A great first Agatha Christie book.
A missing girl guide, a missing hotel dancer, a missing car, an ulteria motive and a wedge of good hard cash can this be any harder to solve for Miss Marple ? Read more
Published on 11 Dec 1999

5.0 out of 5 stars This is really good.
The Bantry's go into their library and find a young girl dead on their rug. Who is she? Where did she come from? Who killed her? Read the book and find out!
Published on 23 Jun 1999

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