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The Body in the Library

Agatha Christie

Part of the Miss Marple series

  • 207 pages · about 3 hours
  • First published 1942
  • 127 editions
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1 About this book

The very-respectable Colonel and Mrs Bantry have awakened to discover the body of a young woman in their library. She is wearing evening dress and heavy make-up, which is now smeared across her cold cheeks. But who is she? How did she get there? And what is her connection with another dead girl, whose charred remains are later discovered in an abandoned quarry? The Bantrys turn to Miss Marple to solve the mystery.

Good for readers who want: a mystery and a thriller.

  • Mystery
  • Women detectives
  • Murder
  • Thrillers
  • Mystery & detective, women sleuths
  • Mystery & detective, traditional
  • Private investigators
  • Jane Marple

2 About Agatha Christie

1890–1976

Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Mallowan, Lady Mallowan (née Miller, 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976), usually known by her first married name, Agatha Christie, was an English author known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short-story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot (with the novel debut being The Mysterious Affair at Styles in 1920), Tommy and Tuppence (with the novel debut being The Secret…

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