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cjfiebert 's review for:
Murder at the Vicarage
by Agatha Christie
I picked up this book over the summer & couldn't really get into it. But I decided that a good murder mystery was a perfect fall read.
As with most murder mysteries, I love trying to figure out the clues as the characters recieve them. And this case was certainly filled with twists & turns that kept me guessing until the end. The case is told by the Vicar, a middle-aged man with a young wife and younger nephew to care for. While the three are out of their house one evening, a greatly disliked man in the village stops by for a meeting with the Vicar. When the Vicar returns from an unexpected errand to meet with the man, he finds the man's cold dead body laying across the writing desk. As the case unfolds, we learn the reasons why so many of the villagers seem to hate this man and try to figure out who could have truly been behind the crime.
Of course, an Agatha Christie novel would not be complete without some red herrings and other small mysteries throw in as well. As the police try to unravel the motives and solve the case, Miss Marple is completing an investigation of her own. It should be no surprise to fans of Christie's work that Miss Marple is truly the one to solve the case in the end and leave the reader longing for her brilliant mind along the way.
As with most murder mysteries, I love trying to figure out the clues as the characters recieve them. And this case was certainly filled with twists & turns that kept me guessing until the end. The case is told by the Vicar, a middle-aged man with a young wife and younger nephew to care for. While the three are out of their house one evening, a greatly disliked man in the village stops by for a meeting with the Vicar. When the Vicar returns from an unexpected errand to meet with the man, he finds the man's cold dead body laying across the writing desk. As the case unfolds, we learn the reasons why so many of the villagers seem to hate this man and try to figure out who could have truly been behind the crime.
Of course, an Agatha Christie novel would not be complete without some red herrings and other small mysteries throw in as well. As the police try to unravel the motives and solve the case, Miss Marple is completing an investigation of her own. It should be no surprise to fans of Christie's work that Miss Marple is truly the one to solve the case in the end and leave the reader longing for her brilliant mind along the way.