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Presented for the first time in one volume are all twenty of the short stories featuring Miss Jane Marple, that delightful spinster whose innocent blue eyes belie her shrewd insights. Here, in her pretty Victorian home, her knitting needles clicking softly in the background, Agatha Christie's famous amateur sleuth solves twenty crimes in her mild, quiet manner, basing her solutions on past experiences and an insistence that human nature is the same everywhere.
It was, of course, the small village of St. Mary Mead that served as Miss Marple's training ground in the finer points of criminal behavior, and this, according to the former commissioner of Scotland Yard, Sir Henry Clithering, was clearly a matter of "natural genius cultivated in a suitable soil." While others are mulling over seemingly unfathomable situations, Miss Marple uses her principles to sort out facts and "go straight to the truth like a homing pigeon."
These stories are masterpieces of detection and each one has just the added ingenious twist that only Agatha Christie can give.
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Miss Marple : the Complete Short Stories: A Miss Marple Collection
2022, HarperCollins Publishers, William Morrow Paperbacks
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Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories
May 04, 2016, William Morrow & Company
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Miss Marple : the Complete Short Stories: A Miss Marple Collection
2013, HarperCollins Publishers
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0062330551 9780062330550
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Miss Marple: the complete short stories
2012, Center Point Pub.
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1611735424 9781611735420
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Miss Marple : the Complete Short Stories: A Miss Marple Collection
2011, HarperCollins Publishers
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0062073710 9780062073716
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Miss Marple: the Complete Short Stories
1997, HarperCollins Publishers
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Miss Marple: the Complete Short Stories
July 10, 1997, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
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Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories (G. K. Hall (Large Print))
February 1988, G. K. Hall & Company
Paperback
in English
- Largeprint edition
0816141290 9780816141296
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Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories
November 1, 1986, Berkley Trade
in English
0425094863 9780425094860
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Miss Marple: the complete short stories
1986-11, Berkley Books
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0425094863 9780425094860
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Miss Marple: the complete short stories
1985, Dodd, Mead
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- 1st ed.
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