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2007-09-30 13:24:05 · 5 answers · asked by marym 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
According to Wikipedia:
Christie wrote a concluding novel to her Marple series, Sleeping Murder, in 1940. She locked it away in a bank vault so it would be safe if she was killed in The Blitz. The novel was not published until shortly after Christie's death in 1976, some thirty-six years after it was originally written. Sleeping Murder created some discrepancies in the timeline of the series, as characters who were killed off by Christie in previously published novels reappeared alive.
So Sleeping Murder should be read after Murder at the Vicarage.
The Murder at the Vicarage (1930)
Sleeping Murder (written around 1940, published 1976)
The Body in the Library (1942)
The Moving Finger (1943)
A Murder is Announced (1950)
They Do It with Mirrors, or Murder With Mirrors (1952)
A Pocket Full of Rye (1953)
4.50 from Paddington, or What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw! (1957)
The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side, or The Mirror Crack'd (1962)
A Caribbean Mystery (1964)
At Bertram's Hotel (1965)
Nemesis (1971)
2007-10-08 00:24:25 · answer #1 · answered by Reference Librarian 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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I want to read the Miss Marple novels in the chronological order of the stories, NOT the publication date.?
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2015-08-12 04:35:44 · answer #2 · answered by Thayne 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would be difficult to disentangle the chronological order of the stories apart from loolking at the publication date. However, the exact order is not that important: each novel can stand on its own for enjoyment. Happy reading! There is lots of good fun in store for you.
2007-10-08 10:49:44 · answer #3 · answered by D 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm pretty sure that the publication was in chronologic order, as there are references in the later books to the earlier ones. Also some internal references to her nieces and nephews growing up, etc.
2007-09-30 15:02:59 · answer #4 · answered by Howard H 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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