Twelve kinds of taste
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Fiction, Jane Marple (Fictitious character), Women detectives, Women detectives in fiction
"Let sleeping murder lie": this is the proverb (a variation on "Let sleeping dogs lie") which is not obeyed by twenty-one-year-old New Zealander Gwenda Reed, who has recently married and now comes to England to settle down there.
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Resolved, intimate, spare and plot-driven.
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“Gwenda Reed stood, shivering a little, on the quay-side.”
Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller was born in Torquay, Devon, in the United Kingdom, the daughter of a wealthy American stockbroker. Her father died when she was eleven years old. Her mother taught her at home, encouraging her to write at a very young age. At the age of 16, she went to Mrs. Dryden's finishing school in Paris to study singing and piano. In 1914, at age 24, she married Colonel Archibald Christie, an aviator in the Royal Flying Corps. While he went away to war, she worked as a nurse and wrote her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920), which wasn't published until four years later. When her husband came back from the war, they had a daughter. In 1928 she divorced her hus
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“Is this Agatha Christie's best work?”
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“Does it tie things up too neatly?”
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“Is Sleeping Murder a masterpiece, not merely a very good book?”
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