Category: #3GrandDames

Miss Marple has been offered a trip to the seashore by her niece, the famous artist Joan West, but Miss Marple decides she would much rather go to London and stay at the hotel where …

Miss Marple has long solved her mysteries based upon the premise that human nature is the same no matter where one goes, and she discovers how true this is even in the Caribbean when her …

As Agatha Christie’s The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side opens, Miss Marple is unhappy. Doc Haydock has declared that Miss Marple is now too old to live on her own, so her famous author …

Agatha Christie creates a unique angle on a murder mystery in 1957’s 4:50 from Paddington, or What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw, as published in the United States. On a December afternoon, Mrs. Elspeth McGillicuddy travels down …

Agatha Christie liked using nursery rhymes as a unifying theme, and A Pocket Full of Rye, the only Miss Marple book to use this method, does this more strongly than in any other book. For …

Miss Marple comes to the aid of her friend from finishing school many years earlier in They Do It with Mirrors published in 1952 by Agatha Christie. In her late teens, Miss Marple had been …

As A Murder Is Announced by Agatha Christie opens, everyone in Chipping Cleghorn opens their Gazette one Friday morning to find an advertisement starting, “A murder is announced. . . . Friends, accept this, the …

Jerry Burton has just been released from the hospital after six months spent there recovering from a serious back injury after he crashed the plane he was piloting and moves upon doctor’s orders to what …

Miss Marple solves her most famous case in Agatha Christie’s 1942 novel The Body in the Library. One morning, the servants at Gossington Hall, home of Colonel and Mrs. Bantry, get up to find the …

)In Agatha Christie’s 1930 Murder at the Vicarage, Vicar Leonard Clement enjoys a quiet life at St. Mary Mead, preaching Sundays, teaching the children, and joining his wife, Griselda, at the weekly “Tea and Scandal …