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The Body in the Library (Miss Marple 2), by Agatha Christie (1942)
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Premise: An English town is thrown into a tizzy when a young woman‘s body is found in the library of a prominent family‘s estate

Review: Sometimes you just need a ‘Golden Era‘ detective novel, and this did not disappoint. It‘s well-written, and my brain was still piecing together the solution the day after I finished it. There‘s a reason why Christie is the master.

Mrs. Bantry was dreaming. Her sweet peas had just taken a First at the flower show. The vicar, dressed in cassock and surplice, was giving out the prizes in church.
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My second Miss Marple book. This one takes her out of the village of st Mary‘s mead, which was a bit of a shame, but I enjoyed the characters and again, did not guess who did it. She‘s so good.

I really enjoy the Agatha Christie novels because they give an interesting glimpse of the past. I would have enjoyed to be a dancer at a hotel playing bridge with the guests. Hopefully I would have not ended as a dead body in the library - but one sitting wrapped up cozily in a comfortable armchair in the library.

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Catching up yet again on #AboutABook
Day24: #stunningcover -The Garden Against Time
Day 25: #SetinLibrary - The Body in the Library
Day 26: #SetinHotel - A Gentleman in Moscow
Day 27: #SetonIsland - The Good Women of Safe Harbor
Day 28: #YouveReRead - Pride and Prejudice
Day 29: #SetinBookshop - The Bookshop Sisterhood

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My second Marple mystery and I really enjoyed this one. Miss Marple played a much bigger role in solving the murder. The ending was great. I thought the full solution was so unique!
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The trouble I took to mug up that bit about the Devonshire Starrs . . . Oh well, my luck‘s out. Dance, dance, little gentleman!”
And Raymond returned to the ballroom.
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One early morning sees Dolly Bantry wake up to find the dead body of a young woman in their library. Neither Dolly nor husband, the Colonel, have seen her before but it's not long before the local gossip starts up. Dolly knows this could end up ostracising them from the village so she reaches out to long-time friend, Jane Marple, for help & her enquiries see them head off to the Majestic hotel for a short stay. (Continued)

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️I read an Agatha Christie novel every December, & it‘s something I always look forward to. This was my first Miss Marple mystery, and it did not disappoint! It definitely made me want to read more from her series - I feel like I know Poirot so well & would like to know Miss Marple the same. What feels like a straightforward whodunit is, of course, not that at all. I always like being taken on the ride Christie brings me on.Til next year!

A quality distraction. Just the right length. Engrossing enough to keep focus, but not too taxing for an already stressed brain. Of course, I could have done without the incredibly shallow, prejudiced descriptions/judgements and some other period (in)appropriate attitudes, but this worked much better for me than The Murder at the Vicarage - the right amount of Marple and way less high strung melodramatic dialogue. ⚠️Ableism, classism, misogyny

Love how looking for case parallels is just code for getting Marple to spill the tea. 🫗☕👂🏻👄

See what happens when you don't have the internet to entertain you?! 🫢

Mrs. Bantry was dreaming. Her sweet peas had just taken a First at the flower show. The vicar, dressed in cassock and surplice, was giving out the prizes in church.
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Once a librarian. Always a librarian. Have taken great pleasure in sorting out my shelves today

This is the second Miss Marple book! I finished it last week. I didn‘t think I was going to really enjoy the Miss Marple mysteries, but I really liked this one! The mystery was good and I‘m sure I missed clues as to who the killer was.

I‘m trying to read all the Agatha Christie books in order and like one a month!

I like to read a few Christie books a year. I enjoy them but I am never blown away by them. This one features Miss Marple but she is not as present as I expected she would be. She solves the mystery but it seems like it is done off scene. It was enjoyable 3 stars.

My monthly Christie is complete for April. I enjoyed this one. I like Christie's little opinionated asides about children, parenting, social conventions, generational and class differences. Miss Marple is always on the verge of not being taken seriously even though she's got the sharpest mind in the bunch.

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“Downstairs in the lounge, by the third pillar from the left, there sits an old lady with a sweet, placid spinsterish face, and a mind that has plumbed the depths of human iniquity and taken it as all in the day‘s work. Her name‘s Miss Marple…and where crime is concerned she‘s the goods, Conway.” 😆

💙Miss Marple! Enjoyed this second installment enormously. Delightful (though the crime revealed is quite dark) and just a pleasure to read.

BINGO 😄🎉🎊
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This is something I‘ve been looking forward to reading for a while. This was very exciting from beginning to end. I‘m always excited when it comes to a Miss Marple mystery. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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Classic Christie…. And my first Miss Marple in decades!!

Oooh, this was just delicious! With Christie half the fun is seeing the solution neatly laid out at the end and piecing it together again backwards, and this one seemed especially well plotted so I got to relish that sense of surprise all over again as I ran back through how everything fit together.

Friday #bookmail Part 2! Wine of Honour is our March #FurrowedMiddlebrowClub read (cannot wait!) and, after finishing the first Miss Marple for #GoldenAgeCrimeClub, I immediately ordered the second to read this month. I‘ll be starting Mind of the Raven soon for #NaturaLitsy.

Took a mere nano second today to choose an appropriately fitting bookmark 😊

I loved revisiting the first Miss Marple book so much that I‘m now going to read them all in order ( throughout 2023). I think there are 12 so fits neatly into a year long goal! 👏🏼

#goldenagecrimeclub

Thanks for the tag @Eggs
My favorite, female character is probably Miss Marple. My first Christie book was Body in the Library, and as a second daughter, who was labeled the smart one (my older sister was the pretty one), I took comfort in Miss Marple‘s genius and eccentricity. The older I get the more I love her. The beauty of Marple, she can fit in anywhere. If you have not played, consider yourself tagged.
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This book is part of the Miss Marple series and is considered an early cozy mystery. It wasn‘t my favorite Agatha Christie. Something about the class distinctions irritated me. Perhaps it was the trivialization of the dead girl from the ‘wrong‘ class by the snobbish well-to-do (possibly to make the story less sad)? That said, it is a clever whodunnit from the master and I‘m sure a good read if you‘re in the right mood.

Comfy Harry Potter PJ'S, Green Tea and one of my favorite Agatha Christie novels. Mid week Evening plan

Bk10 of June & #BigJuneReadathon & Bk2 of #20in4 #readathon is done. The 2nd full Miss Marple story, it starts in St Mary Mead with the discovery of a dead girl in the library at Gossington Hall then to a seaside hotel where the girl worked. Miss Marple & Mrs Bantry go to do some sleuthing & show up the police. Of course! #BookspinBingo #ChristiesCrimeClub

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And Raymond returned to the ballroom.
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Brainstorming the Marple T-shirt this morning! It‘s such a great idea 💡 considered a keyhole back but prefer the Peter Pan collar style 🧵What do you think of pearl buttons? I‘m leaning towards a stretch knit so they would function but largely decoratively 🪡

I‘m a little late starting this one - been a busy month and I haven‘t been reading that much - but hoping to start it today and get it back to you soon. @Jadams1776 @Roary47 @Kangaj1 #lmpbc #groupm

They made it safely! @Roary47
I‘ll read and get your book back to you soon @Jadams1776
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The estate of Agatha Christie is reissuing the Miss Marple books! How pretty are the covers! This is from Barnes & Noble so im not sure if its their exclusive or if other stores will have them. I have these in original vintage paperbacks but i may just need to get these!

4✨Dice and Domino wanted to cuddle while I finished this one. How do you describe this without giving it away? Things are not what they seem and individuals keeping secrets. It was my first Miss Marple and will not be my last. So fun to read. 💛#LMPBC #GroupM @Jadams1776 @Kangaj1 @Jerdencon @suvata

I got it in the mail yesterday. Yay! #LMPBC #GroupM @Jadams1776 @Kangaj1 @Jerdencon Whew! This should be the one from three weeks ago. Sorry we have a large population in the winter months that‘s probably why it‘s taking so long on my end. Plus them being short staffed. I‘ll try to read and send ASAP.

I am an Agatha Christie fan. I am! As a fan I hate to select “So-so” as the final verdict for any of her books, but rereading Agatha Christie‘s books as an adult is not quite reawakening the lovely feelings that I had as a teen reader of her work. She was adored. Don‘t get me wrong, she still is, but even in the cozy realm this story lacks gumption. It is missing brouhaha - the frenzied excitement of a whodunnit mystery.👇🏽

#lmpbc13 #groupm @Jadams1776
I finished this one tonight. I've read a few Agatha Christie books now and they are just ok for me. I did find this one funny in spots - it was my first Miss Marple!

#GratefulHarvest - Orange: Everything is orange-hued in this photo. A very fall colour theme!
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Oh, it‘s my annual Agatha Christie read. I think that I read this one already, but that‘s okay. She‘s worth a second go at it!

Quaint, very British, whodunnit.

Easy to follow, easy to read, short and sweet.

A quick diversion between other books 🌚

Just no. I used to be such a fan of Agatha Christie in my teens. Now it‘s just is meh for me. Especially Miss Marple. I am willing to give Poirot another chance though.

At least it‘s another prompt ticked off for #Booked2021.

Stephanie Cole is an absolutely delightful narrator and I hope she does more of the Miss Marple mysteries. The story itself was fun, with several nice twists and fantastic characters. It‘s a story I‘ve seen on TV, but the clever twists mean I forget the solution every time, so it‘s new to me every time I read or watch it. 😂 #TitleIncludesLibraryOrLibrarian for #Booked2021

Interesting how the story starts off quite sympathetic to the victim but shifts as time goes by to disdain for her as a gold-digger.

Despite having read it before (admittedly 7 years ago) I still couldn't work out/remember who did it.