An edition of Sleeping Murder (1940)

Sleeping Murder

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An edition of Sleeping Murder (1940)

Sleeping Murder

  • 4.3 (10 ratings) ·
  • 140 Want to read
  • 6 Currently reading
  • 39 Have read

"Let sleeping murder lie": this is the proverb (a variation on "Let sleeping dogs lie") which is not obeyed by twenty-one-year-old New Zealander Gwenda Reed, who has recently married and now comes to England to settle down there. While her husband, Giles, is out of the country, she buys a house for them and starts recalling memories which make her start to think that perhaps she had lived in the house before. She knows the pattern of the old wallpaper they find on the walls, the location of a now covered over doorway, a set of steps in the garden that are not where they should be, and so on. When she begins to remember seeing someone murdered at the bottom of the staircase however, she is convinced she is going mad. Miss Marple however has an explanation not only for why she may be having these memories but also solves the mystery of the murder victim and her murderer.

Sleeping Murder chronicles Miss Marple’s final case. Although Agatha Christie wrote it before Nemesis, it was not published until after her death in 1976. It is thought to have been written in the early 1940s, although the exact date has been debated

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Publisher
Signet
Language
English
Pages
224

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Edition Availability
Cover of: La dernière énigme
La dernière énigme
2014, Editions du Masque
in French
Cover of: Un crimen dormido
Un crimen dormido
2010, RBA
in Spanish
Cover of: Un crimen dormido
Un crimen dormido
2005, RBA
Paperback in Spanish
Cover of: Sleeping Murder
Sleeping Murder
2000, Signet
in English
Cover of: Ruhe unsanft
Ruhe unsanft
1991, Scherz
in German
Cover of: La dernière énigme
La dernière énigme
1984, Librairie des Champs-Elysées
Mass Market Paperback in French
Cover of: Sleeping Murder
Sleeping Murder
1981-08, Bantam Books
in English
Cover of: Sleeping Murder
Sleeping Murder
1978-03, Thorpe
in English
Cover of: Sleeping Murder
Sleeping Murder
1977, Bantam Books
in English
Cover of: La dernière énigme
La dernière énigme
1977, Librairie des Champs-Elysees
hardcover in French
Cover of: Sleeping murder
Sleeping murder: Miss Marple's last case.
1977, Book Club Associates
in English

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First Sentence

"Gwenda Reed stood, shivering a little, on the quay-side."

Edition Notes

Series
Miss Marple (13)

Classifications

Library of Congress
PR6019.O9

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL7574244M
Internet Archive
sleepingmurdermi00agat
ISBN 10
0451200195
ISBN 13
9780451200198
Library Thing
30573
Goodreads
834354

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