Sleuthing Miss Marple

Author : Desirée Prideaux
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1800854641

Get Book

Sleuthing Miss Marple by Desirée Prideaux Pdf

Sleuthing Miss Marple mirrors the structure and playful analytic style of a detective novel. Beginning at the 'scene of the crime', this investigation places Agatha Christie and the clue-puzzle in historical context, casting light on the methods, the motives, and, in a sense, the alibis that underpin Christie's crime fiction. In keeping with the clue-puzzle analytical method devised for this book, each chapter builds towards a conclusion that delivers a surprising intellectual payoff. This enquiry is unapologetically textual in approach. It constructs a rigorous evidence base drawn from the Marple short stories and novels, and presents a useful interpretation of crime fiction scholarship.This provides a foundation for original literary analyses that reveal Christie's engagements with gender roles and genre rules, and the sleights of hand that they conceal. Christie's modus operandi is uncovered, as are the narrative strategies and literary devices that she deployed to ambush unwary readers. Crucially, this investigation shows how Christie's ingenious methods made it possible for an elderly spinster to get away with solving murder. Sleuthing Miss Marple will be invaluable for students and researchers of crime fiction, twentieth-century literature, and creative writing.

Author : Desirée Prideaux
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781800854451

Get Book

Sleuthing Miss Marple by Desirée Prideaux Pdf

Sleuthing Miss Marple mirrors the structure and playful analytic style of a detective novel. Beginning at the ‘scene of the crime’, this investigation places Agatha Christie and the clue-puzzle in historical context, casting light on the methods, the motives, and, in a sense, the alibis that underpin Christie’s crime fiction. In keeping with the clue-puzzle analytical method devised for this book, each chapter builds towards a conclusion that delivers a surprising intellectual payoff. This enquiry is unapologetically textual in approach. It constructs a rigorous evidence base drawn from the Marple short stories and novels, and presents a useful interpretation of crime fiction scholarship. This provides a foundation for original literary analyses that reveal Christie’s engagements with gender roles and genre rules, and the sleights of hand that they conceal. Christie’s modus operandi is uncovered, as are the narrative strategies and literary devices that she deployed to ambush unwary readers. Crucially, this investigation shows how Christie’s ingenious methods made it possible for an elderly spinster to get away with solving murder. Sleuthing Miss Marple will be invaluable for students and researchers of crime fiction, twentieth-century literature, and creative writing.

Author : Isabel Anders
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781780995441

Get Book

Miss Marple: Christian Sleuth by Isabel Anders Pdf

The rage for crime fiction today mysteriously includes a wide and enduring attraction to the few remaining wholly admirable role models still available to readers. The iconic Miss Marple, ‘faved’ by traditionalists and pop fans alike, deftly models her love of God and neighbor in concrete terms—and stands boldly for Truth and Good. This beloved, enigmatic, mild-mannered spinster champions the triumph of order over chaos in society, through her process of detection in which the solution rests in provable fact. ,

Author : Agatha Christie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Beresford, Tommy (Fictitious character)
ISBN : 0847984516

Get Book

By the Pricking of My Thumbs by Agatha Christie Pdf

Author : Agatha Christie
Publisher : Berkley
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : England
ISBN : 0451200993

Get Book

Sleeping Murder by Agatha Christie Pdf

Originally published the year of Agatha Christie's death, Sleeping Murder is a novel as legendary as its lead character and its creator...A novel that adheres to the classic mystery formula, and transcends it... A novel that is a must for every mystery reader, marking the final bow of Christie's beloved sleuth, Miss Jane Marple. Now Sleeping Murder is back in a special trade edition, sure to delight old and new fans alike.... "Agatha Christie makes us feel Miss Marple's shiver." --New York Times "Has all the virtues of Agatha Christie's work; a coherant plot, firm andpurposeful narration, anda pleasant style." --Times Literary

Author : Agatha Christie
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780008356347

Get Book

Murder, She Said: The Quotable Miss Marple by Agatha Christie Pdf

Did you know that one of the world’s sharpest and most forensic minds inhabited the persona of an attractive old lady, with pink cheeks and blue eyes, and a gentle, rather fussy manner? Discover the secrets of Miss Marple in this gorgeous book of her quotes and sayings, and an essay by Agatha Christie appearing for the first time in any book!

Author : Agatha Christie
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2009-03-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061749810

Get Book

The Moving Finger by Agatha Christie Pdf

The indomitable sleuth Miss Marple is led to a small town with shameful secrets in Agatha Christie’s classic detective story, The Moving Finger. Lymstock is a town with more than its share of scandalous secrets—a town where even a sudden outbreak of anonymous hate mail causes only a minor stir. But all that changes when one of the recipients, Mrs. Symmington, commits suicide. Her final note says “I can’t go on,” but Miss Marple questions the coroner’s verdict of suicide. Soon nobody is sure of anyone—as secrets stop being shameful and start becoming deadly.

Author : Anne Hart
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-02
Category : Detective and mystery stories, English
ISBN : 0008340285

Get Book

Agatha Christie's Miss Marple: the Life and Times of Miss Jane Marple by Anne Hart Pdf

The definitive companion to the MISS MARPLE novels, short stories, films and TV appearances, now revised and updated.

Author : Agatha Christie
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061752209

Get Book

The Sittaford Mystery by Agatha Christie Pdf

The Sittaford Mystery is Dame Agatha at her most intriguing, as a séance in a snowbound house predicts a particularly grisly murder. In a remote house in the middle of Dartmoor, six shadowy figures huddle around a table for a seance. Tension rises as the spirits spell out a chilling message: "Captain Trevelyan . . . dead . . . murder." Is this black magic or simply a macabre joke? The only way to be certain is to locate Captain Trevelyan. Unfortunately, his home is six miles away and, with snowdrifts blocking the roads, someone will have to make the journey on foot. . . .

Author : Travis Elborough
Publisher : Little, Brown Book Group
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781408712832

Get Book

Through The Looking Glasses by Travis Elborough Pdf

'Elegant and multi-focal. Glorious!' Simon Garfield 'It will make you look at specs with fresh eyes' New Statesman 'Lively, engaging and admirably wide-ranging' The Times 'Fascinating' Observer The humble pair of glasses might just be one of the world's greatest inventions, allowing millions to see a world that might otherwise appear a blur. And yet how much do many of us really think about these things perched on the ends of our noses? Through the Looking Glasses traces the fascinating story of spectacles: from their inception as primitive visual aids for monkish scribes right through to today's designer eyewear and the augmented reality of Google Glass. There are encounters with ingenious medieval Italian glassmakers, myopic Renaissance rulers and spectacle-makers, as well as the silent movie star Harold Lloyd, the rock'n'roller Buddy Holly and the full-screen figure of Marilyn Monroe. This is a book about vision and the need for humanity to see clearly, and where the impulse to improve our eyesight has led us.

Author : Agatha Christie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 827 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1981-07
Category : Detective and mystery stories
ISBN : 0671424122

Get Book

The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie Pdf

A BBC Radio full-cast dramatization starring June Whitfield as the sharp-witted spinster sleuth, Miss Marple. Dolly Bantry, mistress of Gossington Hall, is enjoying a pleasant doze when suddenly her dreams take a strange turn. The housemaid Mary is telling her that there is a body in the library. As she wakes up, it turns out to be true... But who is the strange young blonde sprawled on the library floor? Enter St. Mary Mead's resident sleuth, Miss Mary Marple.

Author : Agatha Christie
Publisher : Black Dog & Leventhal Pub
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1579126936

Get Book

4:50 from Paddington by Agatha Christie Pdf

On a jaunt to visit her friend Miss Marple, Elspeth McGillicuddy sees a man strangling a woman on a passing train. The police dismiss her observation as imagination, but Miss Marple knows better and decides to search for the corpse on her own.

Author : Agatha Christie
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 4510 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062332820

Get Book

The Complete Miss Marple Collection by Agatha Christie Pdf

All thirteen Miss Marple mysteries in one great package! Enjoy the complete collection featuring the Queen of Mystery's most famous female sleuth, Miss Jane Marple. From the quaint, sleepy village of St. Mary Mead to the French Riviera and Caribbean Islands, crime is never far away — but Agatha Christie's perceptive old maid is always one step ahead. Included stories: The Murder at the Vicarage The Body in the Library The Moving Finger A Murder Is Announced They Do It with Mirrors A Pocket Full of Rye 4.50 from Paddington The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side A Caribbean Mystery At Bertram's Hotel Nemesis Sleeping Murder Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories

Author : Marion Shaw,Sabine Vanacker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429838514

Get Book

Reflecting on Miss Marple by Marion Shaw,Sabine Vanacker Pdf

Originally published in 1991, Reflecting on Miss Marple looks at the incongruous combination of violence, murder and a sweet, white-haired old lady, and examines why this makes such a potent but unlikely formula. The book is an astute and engaging account which reveals Miss Marple as a feminist heroine, triumphantly able to exploit contemporary prejudices against unmarried women in order to solve her case. The authors explore the inherent contradictions of Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple novels, their social context, and their place in detective fiction as a whole.

Author : Agatha Christie
Publisher : William Morrow
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0062573217

Get Book

Miss Marple by Agatha Christie Pdf

A stunning omnibus that gathers together every short story featuring one of Agatha Christie's most famous creations, Miss Marple. Described by her friend Dolly Bantry as the typical old maid of fiction, Miss Marple has lived almost her entire life in the sleepy hamlet of St. Mary Mead. Yet, by observing village life she has gained an unparalleled insight into human nature and used this incredible ability to ferret our murderers and solve crimes. As her friend Sir Henry Clithering, the ex-Commissioner of Scotland Yard has been heard to say, She's just the finest detective God ever made.