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The summer has heated up but the talent of Agatha Christie never cools down. Hot on the heels of another brilliant English person in our Milestone 27,00th post with Paul McCartney, we continue our coverage with another. With a sharp mind and time to spare, Miss Marple is back to deduce the killer in The Body in the Library, the second in her Agatha Christie series and not at all a sophomoric effort by the brilliant Christie whom we believe is reading us up there.
We still miss Poirot with his sharp style but Marple is a match for his little grey cells as she has the same pen DNA of course! And Mrs. Bantry is quite game in the start -she says if you have a murder happening in your house you might as well enjoy it...and if you are new to us the short answer is Poirot is the city mouse and Marple is the country mouse.
Some sharp Marple philosophy (p. 162):
"'The trouble in this case is that everybody has been much too credulous and believing. You simply cannot afford to believe everything that people tell you. When there's anything fishy about, I never believe anyone at all! You see, I know human nature so well.""
Up with Basil Blake: the underdog in entertainment! 15th in the list of set design...as a character he seems fascinating and we hope we see him in more editions of Christie. He has great word choice and is authentic to the time in verbiage (p.25).
With the scene of a burnt car we think how we might uncover DNA evidence today...way before Christie's time but we would love to see her come back and learn of the DNA trails!
Marriages, deaths, inheritances, OH MY! No lions and tigers and bears here: just a double murder. That's all. And what is the connection?!?! We shall not give it away. Legal contracts matter!
The Body in the Library is Recommended by Whom You Know!
Previously on Whom You Know, we have raved about Agatha:
ALL OF HERCULE POIROT:
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Murder on the Links
Poirot Investigates
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
The Big Four
The Mystery of the Blue Train
Peril at End House
https://www.whomyouknow.com/2020/11/readthis.agathachristie.perilatendhouse.peachydeegan.harpercollins.williammorrow.html#.X7lGvGhKg2w
Lord Edgware Dies
Murder on the Orient Express
Three Act Tragedy
and we took a break from only him and did him with others in Midwinter Murder
and returned to only him with Death in the Clouds
The ABC Murders
Murder in Mesopotamia
Cards on the Table
Murder in the Mews
Dumb Witness
Death on the Nile
Appointment with Death
Hercule Poirot's Christmas
Sad Cypress
One Two Buckle My Shoe
Evil Under the Sun
Five Little Pigs
The Hollow
The Labors of Hercules
Taken at the Flood
The Under Dog and Other Stories
Mrs. McGinty's Dead
After the Funeral
Hickory Dickory Dock
Dead Man's Folly
Cat Among the Pigeons
The Clocks
Third Girl
Halloween Party
Elephants Can Remember
Curtain Poirot's Last Case
MISS MARPLE:
The Murder at the Vicarage:
About the Author
Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language, outsold only in the Bible and Shakespeare. Her books have sold more than a billion copies in English and another billion in a hundred foreign languages. She is the author of eighty crime novels and short-story collections, around thirty plays, two memoirs, and six novels written under the name Mary Westmacott.
She first tried her hand at detective fiction while working in a hospital dispensary during World War I, creating the now-legendary Hercule Prior with her debut novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles. In 1930, Miss Jane Marple made her first full-length novel appearance in The Murder at the Vicarage, quickly becoming another beloved and enduring character to rival Poirot's popularity. Additional series characters include the husband-and wife crime-fighting team of Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, private investigator Parker Pyne, and Scotland Yard detectives Superintendent Battle and Inspector Japp.
Many of Christie's novels and short stories were adapted into plays, films, and television series. The Mousetrap opened in 1952 and is the longest running play in history. Academy Award-nominated actor and director Kenneth Branagh helmed the acclaimed major motion picture Murder on the Orient Express in 2017 and its sequel, Death on the Nile, starring in both films as the Belgian detective. On the small screen Poirot has been most memorably portrayed by David Suchet, and Miss Marple by Joan Hickson and subsequently Geraldine McEwan and Julia McKenzie.
Christie was first married to Archibald Christie and then to archaeologist Sir Max Mallowan, whom she accompanied on expeditions to countries that would also serve as the settings for many of her novels. In 1971 she achieved one of Britain's highest honors when she was made a Dame of the British Empire. She died in 1976 at the age of eighty-five. The one-hundred-year anniversary of Agatha Christie stories and the debut of Hercule Poirot was celebrated around the world in 2020. Whom You Know will never stop celebrating it!
