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2022

Format:	Book
Author:	Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976, creator.
Title:	Marple : twelve new stories / Naomi Alderman, Leigh Bardugo, Alyssa Cole, Lucy Foley, Elly Griffiths, Nathalie Haynes, Jean Kwok, Val McDermid, Karen M. McManus, Dreda Say Mitchell, Kate Mosse, Ruth Ware.
Edition:	First U. S. edition.
Publisher, Date:	New York : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2022. ©2022
Description:	370 pages ; 24 cm
Summary:	A brand-new collection of short stories featuring the Queen of Mystery's legendary detective Jane Marple, penned by 12 remarkable best-selling and acclaimed authors. This collection of 12 original short stories, all featuring Jane Marple, will introduce the character to a whole new generation. Each author reimagines Agatha Christie's Marple through their own unique perspective while staying true to the hallmarks of a traditional mystery...Miss Marple was first introduced to readers in a story Agatha Christie wrote for The Royal Magazine in 1927 and made her first appearance in a full-length novel in 1930's The Murder at the Vicarage. It has been 45 years since Agatha Christie's last Marple novel, Sleeping Murder, was published posthumously in 1976, and this collection of ingenious new stories by 12 Christie devotees will be a timely reminder why Jane Marple remains the most famous fictional female detective of all time.
Subjects:	Marple, Jane (Fictitious character) -- Fiction. Women detectives -- England -- Fiction. Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction.
Other Contributor:	Container of (work): Foley, Lucy (Novelist). Evil in small places. Container of (work): McDermid, Val. Second murder at the vicarage. Container of (work): Cole, Alyssa. Miss Marple takes Manhattan. Container of (work): Haynes, Natalie. Unravelling. Container of (work): Ware, Ruth. Miss Marple's Christmas. Container of (work): Alderman, Naomi. Open mind. Container of (work): Kwok, Jean. Jade empress. Container of (work): Mitchell, Dreda Say. Deadly wedding day. Container of (work): Griffiths, Ella, 1978- Murder at the Villa Rosa. Container of (work): McManus, Karen M. Murdering sort. Container of (work): Mosse, Kate, 1961- Mystery of the acid soil. Container of (work): Bardugo, Leigh. Disappearance.
Other Title:	At head of title: Agatha Christie
Notes:	"Originally published as Marple in the United Kingdom in 2022 by HarperCollins."--Title page verso.
Contents:	Evil in small places / Lucy Foley -- The second murder at the vicarage / Val McDermid -- Miss Marple takes Manhattan / Alyssa Cole -- The unravelling / Natalie Haynes -- Miss Marple's Christmas / Ruth Ware -- The open mind / Naomi Alderman -- The jade empress / Jean Kwok -- A deadly wedding day / Dreda Say Mitchell -- Murder at the Villa Rosa / Ella Griffiths -- The murdering sort / Karen M. McManus -- The mystery of the acid soil / Kate Mosse -- The disappearance / Leigh Bardugo -- About the authors.
ISBN:	9780063136052 (hardcover) 0063136058 (hardcover)
OCLC:	1337977485
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Twelve female authors from several countries put their own spin on short stories featuring Agatha Christie's amateur sleuth, Miss Jane Marple. Crime fiction readers will recognize big names such as Ruth Ware, Lucy Foley, Val McDermid, and Elly Griffiths. While some stories feature traditional settings such as Ware's "Miss Marple's Christmas" and McDermid's "The Second Murder at the Vicarage," others set the elderly spinster in unexpected territory. Jean Kwok's "The Jade Empress" has her on a cruise ship on the way to Hong Kong, and Alyssa Cole takes her to New York City in "Miss Marple Takes Manhattan." In all the stories, Miss Marple solves cases based on her observations of life and people in the village of St. Mary Mead. VERDICT Readers will be eager to try this anthology as a dozen celebrated crime fiction authors try their hand at writing traditional short stories featuring Christie's amateur sleuth. As in any collection, some stories stand out, but they all capture the character of the shrewd, always underestimated Miss Marple.--Lesa Holstine

Publishers Weekly Review

In this disappointing anthology of authorized pastiches featuring Agatha Christie's Jane Marple, some contributors fail to play fair with readers by not sharing the clues the elderly amateur sleuth relies on, and almost none of the tales effectively display her gifts at understanding human nature. Standing head-and-shoulders above the rest is Lucy Foley's "Evil in Small Places," set in the small town of Meon Maltravers, where Miss Marple is visiting an old school friend. Her suspicion that such places may harbor "more terrible things" than in England's metropolises is borne out the night the community commemorates "the immolation of seventeen Protestant martyrs," when one person is found fatally stabbed, clutching an ominous threatening note. Lesser efforts include Alyssa Cole's gimmicky "Miss Marple Takes Manhattan" and Elly Griffith's "Murder at the Villa Rosa," in which Miss Marple describes Professor Moriarty as a murderer who was a brilliant loner, a characterization at odds with Conan Doyle's. Nothing in this volume matches Sophie Hannah's success in her novels featuring Christie's other iconic sleuth, Hercule Poirot. (Sept.)

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