Sleeping Murder (Miss Marple Mysteries)
by Agatha Christie
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Author: Agatha ChristieEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2000-05-01
ISBN: 0451200195
Number of pages: 224
Publisher: Signet
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Book Review: Miss Marple's Final Bow
Summary: 5 Stars
Hercule Poirot was Agatha Christie's most celebrated character--but over time Christie developed a love-hate relationship with her own creation. Written in the 1940s or 1950s, the novel CURTAIN was designed to both vent her mixed feelings about the character and to protect him from continuation via another author. It was not published until 1975.
But CURTAIN was not the only novel Christie had written earlier and then suppressed. Even as she grew less enthusiastic about Hercule Poirot, she grew more enthusiastic about Jane Marple, and given her sentiments about Poirot she elected to give Miss Marple the final word. Like CURTAIN, the novel SLEEPING MURDER had been written much earlier, and it was not published until the year of Christie's death: 1976, a year after CURTAIN.
The newly married Giles and Gwenda Reed have no close family but they do have independent means, and when Giles suggests that Gwenda purchase a house while he is out of the country she does precisely that: a charming Victorian named Hillside in the tiny coastal town of Dillmouth. In her husband's absence Gwenda has a great deal of fun restoring the home. But something odd happens.
She decides to have steps set in the sloping garden--and when the work begins, a set of steps is found beneath the soil in that same location. She decides to add a dining room door--and when the wall is examined workmen discover a door already exists in the spot, plastered over. Gwenda begins to doubt her sanity. Fortunately, she is distantly related to Jane Marple, who wastes little time in exploring the mystery. And what she finds is pure murder, a murder from out of the past that bursts into the present and threatens not only Giles and Gwenda's happiness, but their very lives as well.
Written near the peak of Christie's skills, both CURTAIN and SLEEPING MURDER are extremely fine mystery novels, and each one gives a suitable final bow to her two most memorable creations. In terms of plot, the applause must go to CURTAIN, which is a truly stunning twister--but in terms of style, the applause goes to SLEEPING MURDER, one of Christie's most elegantly written works. Recommended.
GFT, Amazon Reviewer
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A young bride is having trouble settling in to their home. Feelings of unnatural dread are taking their toll. And when Miss Marple investigates, she learns how truthful-and terrifying-the imagination can be.Literature & Fiction Books
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