The Body in the Library

The Body in the Library

by Agatha Christie (Dodd, Mead and Company, 1942)

audiobook read by Stephanie Cole (Lamplight, 2015)

Book cover: “The Body in the Library” by Agatha Christie (Dodd, Mead and Company, 1942); audiobook read by Stephanie Cole (Lamplight, 2015)

Significantly more engaging than the first Miss Marple novel (albeit still padded out and weighed down by tedious faux-comedic depictions of minor characters). Though Miss Marple herself proves a force to be reckoned with, Christie’s artful misdirection comes very close to cheating.

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