The Murder at the Vicarage
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The Murder at the Vicarage (published in 1930) is a detective fiction novel by Agatha Christie, the first novel to feature the character of Miss Marple.
In St. Mary Mead, no one is more despised than Colonel Protheroe. Even the local vicar has said that killing him would be doing a service to the townsfolk. So when Protheroe is found murdered in the same vicar's study and two different people confess to the crime, it's time for the elderly spinster Jane Marple to exercise her abilities, which until now have been focused on domestic mysteries like what happened to Miss Hartnell's gill of pickled shrimps or why Admiral X's daughter wore her Sunday hat the wrong way around.
The vicar and his wife, Leonard and Griselda Clement, who make their first appearance in this novel, continue to show up in Miss Marple stories: notably, in The Body in the Library (1942) and 4.50 from Paddington, or What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw! (1957)
Film versions
Adapted in 1949 as a play, the BBC series adapted the book into a film in 1988, with Joan Hickson as Miss Marple. It was again presented on television by Granada Television in 2004 with Geraldine McEwan as the sleuth.
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