Major Palgrave enjoys an audience, and, in Miss Marple, he discovers a captive audience too polite to walk away.
But midway through recounting the tale of a multiple murder, he stops suddenly when something, or someone, catches his eye.
Then, when he's found dead the following day, Miss Marple suspects that someone wanted to silence the talkative major. Permanently.
Never underestimate Miss Marple
'There's no such thing as a disappointing Agatha Christie: there are only good ones and better ones.'
Naomi Alderman
'Livelieness . . . infectious zest . . . as good as anything Miss Christie has done.'
Observer
But midway through recounting the tale of a multiple murder, he stops suddenly when something, or someone, catches his eye.
Then, when he's found dead the following day, Miss Marple suspects that someone wanted to silence the talkative major. Permanently.
Never underestimate Miss Marple
'There's no such thing as a disappointing Agatha Christie: there are only good ones and better ones.'
Naomi Alderman
'Livelieness . . . infectious zest . . . as good as anything Miss Christie has done.'
Observer
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'A hundred years after her first novel, and we are all still standing in her shadow' - Andrew Taylor
'She gives us an insight into human nature that few, if any, have surpassed' - Susan Lewis
'Dame Agatha has sold more books than all besides Shakespeare and the Bible' - David Baldacci
'All crime fiction writers around the globe owe Agatha Christie a massive debt' - Peter James
'Reading a perfectly plotted Agatha Christie is like crunching into a perfect apple: that pure, crisp, absolute satisfaction.' - Tana French