Tag: Joan Hickson

The Murder at the Vicarage

The Murder at the Vicarage

by Agatha Christie

(Collins Crime Club, 1930); audiobook read by Joan Hickson (Lamplight Audiobooks, 2015)

Book cover: “The Murder at the Vicarage” by Agatha Christie (Collins Crime Club, 1930); audiobook read by Joan Hickson (Lamplight Audiobooks, 2015)

The first Miss Marple novel is inventive enough, though for much of the book Marple herself is sidelined and the detection takes place via committee. Joan Hickson is a curious choice of audiobook narrator, given that Reverend Clement is the viewpoint character.