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    A Christmas Tragedy: A Miss Marple Story
    A Christmas Tragedy: A Miss Marple Story
    A Christmas Tragedy: A Miss Marple Story
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    A Christmas Tragedy: A Miss Marple Story

    By Agatha Christie

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    Previously published in the print anthology The Thirteen Problems.

    At a health resort, Miss Marple becomes suspicious that a man she meets is planning on murdering his wife.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateJun 11, 2013
    ISBN9780062298065
    A Christmas Tragedy: A Miss Marple Story
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    Agatha Christie

    Agatha Christie is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in English with another billion in over 70 foreign languages. She is the most widely published author of all time and in any language, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 20 plays, and six novels written under the name of Mary Westmacott.

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    • 4/5
      This short Miss Marple story (just 14 pages) manages to pack quite a lot into its mini-plot and is even quite slow to get going as well. Miss Marple stuns fellow dinner party guests with a story set in a Hydro hotel in the run up to Christmas (like the one in Harrogate where she was found after her famous "disappearance" in 1926, four years before this story was published). While there she solved a convoluted murder by a man of his wife involving triple-crossing Miss Marple with a false corpse. Quite good fun.
    • 3/5
      I was good but it didn't have that kind of one single plot or story....it is actually about Jane Marple narrating her incidents. You can read it if you want. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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    A Christmas Tragedy - Agatha Christie

    Contents

    A Christmas Tragedy

    About the Author

    The Agatha Christie Collection

    Copyright

    About the Publisher

    A Christmas Tragedy

    ‘I have a complaint to make,’ said Sir Henry Clithering. His eyes twinkled gently as he looked round at the assembled company. Colonel Bantry, his legs stretched out, was frowning at the mantelpiece as though it were a delinquent soldier on parade, his wife was surreptitiously glancing at a catalogue of bulbs which had come by the late post, Dr Lloyd was gazing with frank admiration at Jane Helier, and that beautiful young actress herself was thoughtfully regarding her pink polished nails. Only that elderly, spinster lady, Miss Marple, was sitting bolt upright, and her faded blue eyes met Sir Henry’s with an answering twinkle.

    ‘A complaint?’ she murmured.

    ‘A very serious complaint. We are a company of six, three representatives of each sex, and I protest on behalf of the downtrodden males. We have had three stories told tonight—and told by the three men! I protest that the ladies have not done their fair share.’

    ‘Oh!’ said Mrs Bantry with indignation. ‘I’m sure we have. We’ve listened with the most intelligent appreciation. We’ve displayed the true womanly attitude—not wishing to thrust ourselves in the limelight!’

    ‘It’s an excellent excuse,’ said Sir Henry; ‘but it won’t do. And there’s a very good precedent in the Arabian Nights! So, forward, Scheherazade.’

    ‘Meaning me?’ said Mrs Bantry. ‘But I don’t know anything to tell. I’ve never been surrounded by blood or mystery.’

    ‘I don’t absolutely insist upon blood,’ said Sir Henry. ‘But I’m sure one of you three ladies has got a pet mystery. Come now, Miss Marple—the Curious Coincidence of the Charwoman or the Mystery of the Mothers’ Meeting. Don’t disappoint me in St Mary Mead.’

    Miss Marple shook her head.

    ‘Nothing that would interest you, Sir Henry. We have our little mysteries, of course—there was that gill of picked shrimps that disappeared so incomprehensibly;

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