![]() ![]() ![]() He’s clearly set up to be the hero of the piece and, while he doesn’t do much detection, he’s vaguely on the right track, when he’s not distracted by his slightly creepy romance with a young lady in the village. If I was Jerry Burton, I’d be pretty cheesed off. The joys of my Kindle tells me that it’s 74% of the way through the book before she shows up, and even then she’s only in three or four scenes. But you could make a good case that this isn’t really a Miss Marple book – because she’s hardly in it. This one turned up the following year, so presumably she’d become popular. It’s interesting to note the dates of the Miss Marple books – the first (Vicarage) was written in 1930 but the second (Library) turned up twelve years later. So far, I’ve actually been rather disappointed with the re-reads so far. The third Miss Marple book, following The Murder At The Vicarage and The Body In The Library, this is another review in my re-evaluation of the Miss Marple mysteries. Well, until a certain little old lady shows up… Needless to say, things escalate as the wife of the local solicitor commits suicide and when another girl dies, it falls to Jerry to sort things out. Unfortunately, they don’t realise that they’re in an Agatha Christie novel, and that the village’s women are being plagued by a series of poison pen letters. Jerry and Joanna Burton have relocated to the village of Lymstock to recover, he from injuries received in a plane crash, she from a failed relationship. ![]()
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