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Celebrating Miss Marple, expert on the wickedness of village life

The elderly spinster with a fine sense of evil was a creation Agatha Christie never tired of – unlike the ‘tiresome, egocentric’ Hercule Poirot

Sophie Hannah
 Dan Williams
EXPLORE THE ISSUE 14 December 2024

  • Agatha Christie’s Marple: Expert on Wickedness

    Mark Aldridge

    Harper Collins, pp. 448, £25

issue 14 December 2024
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