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Sleeping Murder (The Agatha Christie collection) (Hardcover)

by Agatha Christie (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Collins Crime; 1st edition edition (4 Aug 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0002317850
  • ISBN-13: 978-0002317856
  • Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14.2 x 2.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 688,535 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'A puzzle that is tortuous, surprising and finally satisfying.' Sunday Express 'Miss Marple is spry, shrewd and compassionate.' Sunday Telegraph

Miss Marple, almost as if she knew she wouldn't be around much longer, is her most self-effacing while she watches and warns quietly that "murder in retrospect" is the equivalent of sleeping murder which like those dogs should be let lie. However a young couple buy a house where just-married Gwenda has some deja-vu intimations of what took place their eighteen years ago and she and her husband look into the disappearance of her stepmother and the several men in her life that was. This is Miss Marple at her noticing, unobtrusive, kindly best - a perfect envoi. Dual Literary Guild selection for December in a two-in-one volume with The Murder at the Vicarage (which took place some time ago). (Kirkus Reviews)


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Volume 77 in The Agatha Christie Collection (1976). Limited edition of 1000 copies worldwide. Soon after Gwenda moved into her new home, odd things started to happen. Despite her best efforts to modernise the house, she only succeeded in dredging up its past. Worse, she felt an irrational sense of terror every time she climbed the stairs...In fear, Gwenda turned to Miss Marple to exorcise her ghosts. Between them, they were to solve a 'perfect' crime committed many years before.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars More complicated plot than the earlier novels, 12 Jul 2009
By Jimternet "Jim" (West Midlands, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Sleeping Murder: (Miss Marple) (Paperback)
I've been very lapse and am not reviewing this one until a week after I finished reading it. Tut tut. It's a fairly good novel, once again more in keeping with the later Marples (of which it is one) in that the plot is more complicated than the early formula of 1. Murder, 2. Marple, 3. Murder, 4. Solution.

There are a number of elements that don't really add up. First off is the coincidence that magically bring the main character back to the location of the crime twenty years later. Then of course the familiar fortune that they happen to know Miss Marple. There is also a slight issue of no ones attention being drawn to where the body is hidden.

The ending itself however is quite interesting. I thought that I had worked it out, and it as someone that none of the characters had even considered. Then just as the conclusion was drawing up, the protagonist suddenly decided the same as I had been thinking for some time, only to be proved hideously wrong - it was the one person that it had never crossed my mind to consider.

All in all, certainly not one of the worst Marples, but probably not the best either. Well, that's the end, pretty much, of my Miss Marple reading - just a collection of short stories to go.
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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A murder in retrospect expertly solved by Jane Marple., 19 Nov 2000
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This review is from: Sleeping Murder (The Christie Collection) (Paperback)
I expected the pace to be slow as it is a Miss Marple story. I started the book at midnight, thinking of getting through the heavy first few chapters, but ended up finishing the whole book at a go!

Miss Marple tackles a murder that has went undetected for 18 years. There are seemingly no clues whatsoever and no indications that a murder was committed. Only the memory of the eye-witness (who was three when she saw, and subsequently forgot about it) to rely on, Miss Marple finally expertly uncovered the sickening truth, but that was after yet another murder was committed to protect the killer's identity during the process...

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