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One Strangling.
One Poisoning.
A Murder is Announced
The invitation spelled it out quite clearly: "A murder is announced and will take place on Friday, October 29th, at Little Paddocks, at 6:30 p.m." Everyone in town expected a simple party game - a secret 'murderer' is chosen, the lights go out, the 'victim' falls, and the players guess 'whodunit'. Amusing, indeed - until a real corpse is discovered. A game as murderous as this requires the best player of all... Jane Marple.Year: 1950
Detective: Miss Marple
Location: England
Detective: Miss Marple
Location: England
Cast of characters
Jane Marple, Detective Inspector Craddock. Also: Old Ashe, Charlotte and Letitia Blacklock, Dora Bunner, Johnny Butt, Sir Henry Clithering, Colonel Archie and Laura Easterbrook, Sergeant Fletcher, The Goedlers: Belle, Randall and Sonia, Reverend Julian and Diana "Bunch" Harmon, Myrna Harris, Phillipa Haymes, Miss Hinchcliffe, Jim Huggins, Mitzi, Amy Murgatroyd, Mr. Rowlandson, Chief George Rydesdall, Rudi Scherz, Patrick Simmons, Emma Stamfordis, Mrs. Swettenham, Edmund Swettenham, Tiglath-PileserPublishing history
Publishing: First published in 1950 by William Collins Sons & Co. in London, and by Dodd, Mead & Co. in New York. Stage: Adapted by Leslie Darbon for the stage, and opened in London at the Vaudeville Theatre on September 21, 1977. TV: The first of the Marple mysteries to be adapted for television. It was presented in a live broadcast on the NBC Television Goodyear Playhouse on December 30, 1956, starring Gracie Fields as Jane Marple. The novel was adapted again in 1986 by the BBC with Joan Hickson as Marple, and was also shown on PBS in the U.S. Adapted for ITV in 2004, starring Geraldine McEwan in the title role.Notes and reviews
This book has long been considered one of the classics of detective fiction.Murder methods:
One Gunshot.One Strangling.
One Poisoning.
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