Agatha Christie Murder at the Vicarage

This book brings to the for one of Agatha’s most well known characters Miss Marple who inhabits the imaginary village of St Mary Mead. Its also a book that sets the future stage for characters who return in future books like the Vicar and Dr Haydock who pop up on the regular as allies of the ever present Miss Marple.
The main characters are the vicar, his wife Griselda, Ronald the new curate, Mary the grumpy housemaid, Lawrence the starving artist, Lettice the stereotypical dumb blond but is that who she really is? Anne Prothero Lettice’s stepmother and widow of the deceased and last but not least the mysterious Mrs Lestrange. The Victim is Colonel Protheroe the universally disliked throughout the village for his bullying manner – the problem isn’t who could the murderer be, it’s more who didn’t have the motive? Was it the downtrodden wife? the resentful daughter? Someone behind the various financial improprieties in the church accounts?
In this edition there is also included a plan of the crime scene, a plan of the vicarage and a plan of the village to help the reader gain an idea of the lay out and I do feel it brings the story to life.
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