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Dreda Say Mitchel 8/10l Murder at a wedding in a stately home and another Miss Marple in the form of Miss Bella.
It’s difficult to connect fully with any of the characters and/or plot when the whole thing is over and done with so quickly. Miss Marple enjoys herself tremendously in New York in Miss Marple Takes Manhattan by Alyssa Cole, where the redoubtable spinster unravels the skullduggery taking place at a theatre adaptation of one of her nephew Raymond’s novels.
However, my recommendation for anyone who has yet to know the pleasure of Miss Marple's company should instead find a copy of The Tuesday Club Murders/The Thirteen Problems and just go right to the original source. The Disappearance/Leigh Bardugo has an ending that had me questioning a few things and was food for thought! Fortunately, Miss Marple is on hand to unravel the mystery based on her deep knowledge of the inhabitants of St Mary Mead, similar to how she came to solve the murder of Colonel Protheroe in that same vicarage some years previously.
Introducing her to a whole new generation of readers, each author reimagines Agatha Christie's Marple through their lens. McManus, Kate Mosse, Leigh Bardugo, Lucy Foley, Naomi Alderman, Natalie Haynes, Ruth Ware, Val McDermid or just discovered Agatha Christie, Alyssa Cole, Dreda Say Mitchell, Elly Griffiths, Jean Kwok, Karen M. McNanus (1 star)-The story itself was okay, but what kept throwing me is the main character we follow, is a great great niece of Miss Marple and that her granddad is Miss Marple's, nephew, Raymond. Opinions on this episode, both at the time and retrospectively, fall into two camps: either Christie experienced a genuine loss of memory, or she was faking it. While it may offer little in the way of startling revelations, where Worsley’s book excels is in bringing a broader historical perspective to Christie’s life and work, and her enthusiasm is infectious.
Impressing me with a different approach was “Murder at the Villa Rosa” by Elly Griffiths which was told from the POV of Signor Jeffries, who meets Miss Marple in picturesque Italy.
We and our partners use data for Personalised ads and content, ad and content measurement, audience insights and product development. Como en el caso de las colecciones de relatos cortos de la propia autora original, hay historias mejores que otras. This charming collection by HarperCollins is set to publish on September 15, 2022 and should satisfy fans of “Miss Jane Marple” old and new! Leigh Bardugo also involves Dolly Bantry in The Disappearance where Miss Marple is summoned back from London to solve the disappearance of a young man staying at Gossington Hall. stars)-Honestly this reads very well and it reads like a short story that Agatha Christie would have written.It is Miss Marple who introduced the revolutionary notion that people are essentially the same wherever one goes. An interesting question occurs to Miss Marple, why doesn't the bride get to give a speech at her own wedding? The upside, however, is that the stories come from some of the most talented women in modern mystery and crime fiction.
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