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May 25: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie (1926)
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May 25: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - SPOILER Thread - (1926)
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I really enjoyed my reread of this, once again with the Reading the Detectives GR group, and still think it's one of Christie's best, now having read many more of her books.
Below is my old review from 2017:
For some reason I've never read much Agatha Christie, even though I love many of her contemporaries. I'm now putting that right by reading the Miss Marple mysteries with the Reading the Detectives group at Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ, starting off with this first in the series.
As someone who tends to love first ...more
Below is my old review from 2017:
For some reason I've never read much Agatha Christie, even though I love many of her contemporaries. I'm now putting that right by reading the Miss Marple mysteries with the Reading the Detectives group at Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ, starting off with this first in the series.
As someone who tends to love first ...more
GR - QUIT ADDING BOOKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
I have read this multiple times. But you're adding editions that I did not read.
I love how Christie sets out Miss Marple's hobby: I study human nature. ...more
I have read this multiple times. But you're adding editions that I did not read.
I love how Christie sets out Miss Marple's hobby: I study human nature. ...more
3/24 reread: it’s been awhile, time to reread Miss Marple again! I mostly listened to the audiobook this time, done perfectly by Miss Marple herself, Joan Hickson.
2015: I am enjoying rereading the Miss Marple mysteries after watching the DVDs starring Joan Hickson as my favorite Christie detective in the classic BBC mysteries from the 1980s. It's fun to compare what was kept or cut when these timeless puzzles were adapted for TV. This was Christie's first full-length Miss Marple mystery, and I f ...more
2015: I am enjoying rereading the Miss Marple mysteries after watching the DVDs starring Joan Hickson as my favorite Christie detective in the classic BBC mysteries from the 1980s. It's fun to compare what was kept or cut when these timeless puzzles were adapted for TV. This was Christie's first full-length Miss Marple mystery, and I f ...more
Too many years since I've read mysteries from this time period. Decided to re-read or read the mystery "classics." This is the first book in Agatha Christie's Miss Marple series. In St. Mary Mead, Colonel Protheroe is found shot in the head in the Vicar's study. The Vicar in The Murder at the Vicarage actually plays a larger role as amateur sleuth with elderly, proper Miss Marple steadily growing in importance. She ultimately solves the crime. A much more sedate mystery compared to more recent i
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I loved revisiting the debut of Miss Marple and certainly appreciate it more now, having consumed so many more mysteries in the last sixteen years. I'd forgotten so much - even though I've seen the Mystery adaptation since then as well. But, the joy of Christie isn't just in solving the crime and the humor in this one - primarily, although not exclusively through the vicar's narrative voice -is particularly striking. Just a delightful reading experience and very welcome.
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Not one of the best (it is the first Miss Marple after all and she's not quite herself yet), but a fun story. (I think some of my issue was the narrator. I’m now listening to Styles, which is her first, and it’s just so much better.)
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Mar 04, 2009
Laura Anne
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really liked it
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4.5 stars 2024 Series Re-read: The quintessential murder-in-the-village novel. Rev Clement is our narrator, and I love his "voice� and his relationship with his wonderful wife Griselda.
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Jul 20, 2008
Lillian
rated it
it was amazing
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review of another edition
Shelves:
mystery-vintage-golden-age,
read-in-2022
Apr 24, 2012
Peggy
rated it
really liked it
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review of another edition
Shelves:
murder-mysteries-thrillers
Jan 16, 2017
Diane
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really liked it
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Shelves:
mysteries-gr-britain
