The Tuesday Night Club

Miss Marple #SS 1

by Agatha Christie

In The Tuesday Night Club, the incomparable Agatha Christie has once again demonstrated her prowess as a master of the murder mystery genre. The novel features her beloved character Miss Marple, whose sharp mind and keen observation skills are put to the test as she seeks to solve yet another murder in the quiet village of St. Mary Mead. Christie's writing is engaging and creates a sense of tension and intrigue throughout the story, with an intricate plot full of twists and turns that will leave readers guessing until the end. The Tuesday Night Club is a fine example of Christie's ability to create a world in which seemingly ordinary people find themselves embroiled in extraordinary circumstances. The characters are well-developed and the pacing is excellent, making it a highly enjoyable read from start to finish. A must-read for fans of the genre and lovers of Christie's work.

Genres: Mystery, Agatha Christie, Short Stories, Fiction, Classics, Crime, Audiobook

165 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1927

About the author

Agatha Christie also wrote romance novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, and was occasionally published under the name Agatha Christie Mallowan.

Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE (née Miller) was an English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. She also wrote the world's longest-running play, the murder mystery The Mousetrap, which has been performed in the West End of London since 1952. A writer during the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction", Christie has been called the "Queen of Crime". She also wrote six novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. In 1971, she was made a Dame (DBE) by Queen Elizabeth II for her contributions to literature. Guinness World Records lists Christie as the best-selling fiction writer of all time, her novels having sold more than two billion copies.

This best-selling author of all time wrote 66 crime novels and story collections, fourteen plays, and six novels under a pseudonym in romance. Her books sold more than a billion copies in the English language and a billion in translation. According to Index Translationum, people translated her works into 103 languages at least, the most for an individual author. Of the most enduring figures in crime literature, she created Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple. She atuhored The Mousetrap, the longest-running play in the history of modern theater.

Associated Names:
Agata Christie
Agata Kristi
Агата Кристи (Russian)
Агата Крісті (Ukrainian)
Αγκάθα Κρίστι (Greek)
アガサ クリスティ (Japanese)
阿嘉莎·克莉絲蒂 (Chinese)

Reviews

[Jamie · Rating 3 out of 5]

My last read of 2024! I always insist on starting the new year with a new book and not a book-already-in-progress, so I grabbed this Miss Marple short story from the library last night since it wouldn't require an all-day reading marathon in order to finish it by midnight tonight. I don't know why I impose these ridiculous rules on myself, but whatever.

Anyway, this was … fine. It's the very first Miss Marple story, but there's honestly not really a whole lot to it. It's less than a ten-minute read from start to finish, and the whole thing basically amounts to several people (including Miss Marple, of course) sitting around discussing a murder that's technically already been solved. Miss Marple is as clever as always, however, and it's definitely worth the very short amount of time that it takes to read it. Kids today from the 1920s always underestimating their elderly aunts, I swear.

[Anne · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Origin of The Marple!
Yes, this is the first Miss Marple story, and I don't really think you can call yourself a superfan if you haven't read this one.
#loser



Miss Marple's nephew, writer Raymond West, is throwing a dinner party for an eclectic group of people, including the woman he will eventually marry, Joyce. Because there is a Scotland Yard inspector and a lawyer among them, Joyce suggests they form a club that meets every Tuesday night.
As you do.
Each member will tell the story of a murder that they have personal knowledge of, and the rest of them to have to try to figure out who the culprit was.

Sir Henry Clithering starts the group off with the mystery of three people who all ate the same dinner, all fell ill from food poisoning. Mr. Jones and his wife's companion, Miss Clark, are both fine in a day or so, but Mrs. Jones actually dies. However, gossip being gossip and Mr. Jones profiting from his wife's death, the body of Mrs. Jones is soon exhumed.
AND SHE WAS FOUND TO BE THE VICTIM OF ARSENIC POISONING!



So, whodunnit?
Everyone at the party gives their theory, but it is , of course, Miss Marple who shocks the shit out of everyone by coughing delicately and solving the crime.
Highly recommended!

Originally published in 1927 in The Royal Magazine.
Read as part of the short story collection The Thirteen Problems

[EveStar91 · Rating 4 out of 5]

‘We will call it The Tuesday Night Club. It is to meet every week, and each member in turn has to propound a problem. Some mystery of which they have personal knowledge, and to which, of course, they know the answer. Let me see, how many are we? One, two, three, four, five. We ought really to be six.’
‘You have forgotten me, dear,’ said Miss Marple, smiling brightly.

Miss Marple is introduced for the first time in The Tuesday Night Club, outsmarting a police detective, a novelist, an artist, a lawyer and a clergyman in five minutes! The short story is a fun read, touching on the illusions people have of their professions and intelligence while discussing a seemingly impossibly murder that the police couldn't solve, before being neatly and quite modestly proven wrong by Miss Marple's understanding of the situation.

This is the first impromptu meeting of the club and I'm inclined to read more of these stories. Recommended for anyone who enjoys Miss Marple mysteries.

‘I mean,’ said Miss Marple, puckering her brow a little as she counted the stitches in her knitting, ‘that so many people seem to me not to be either bad or good, but simply, you know, very silly.’

🌟🌟🌟🌟
[3/4 star for the premise and the whole story; 3/4 star for the characters; 3/4 star for the writing; One star for the world-building and description; 3/4 star for theplot and themes - Four stars in total.]

[Rosh ~catching up slowly~ · Rating 3 out of 5]

A decent introduction to Miss Marple. This story is part of the The Thirteen Problems collection.

This is a short story known for having the very first print appearance of the legendary Miss Marple. I began my Marple journey with this story because I always love to see how an author introduces a staple character the very first time. In that sense, I am slightly disappointed because there’s hardly any character background provided. (Maybe this is a Christie specialty, because her first Poirot book The Mysterious Affair at Styles also revealed little beyond boring facts about the detective. Contrast this with “A Study in Scarlet” where Arthur Conan Doyle presents a perfect picture of the maverick Sherlock Holmes and makes us get inside his mind with ease.)

Anyway, back to the story. This is a very quick read, not requiring more than 15 minutes. Six people – Miss Marple, her nephew, a clergyman, an artist, a solicitor and an ex-commissioner of the Scotland Yard – have come together to form a ‘Tuesday Night Club’, whereby one of them will reveal a mystery, the answer to which is known only to that person. The remaining five try to resolve it individually. Needless to say, Miss Marple won this first round.

There is not at much of Miss Marple in this story as I would have liked but the story still is interesting. Not a very innovative mystery too because the culprit was quite predictable. The modus operandi is of greater interest than the villain. I might have enjoyed the big reveal more had I known the British term for a common baking ingredient. Because I wasn’t aware of it, the resolution seemed to come out of nowhere.

Overall, a fairly decent introduction, but the rest of the stories will determine the fate of the book. I was expecting more thrills, but there's a long way to go yet on the Marple journey.

3.5 stars



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[Janete on hiatus due health issues · Rating 3 out of 5]

An interesting short story, but not thrilling at all. Could be better.

[Kelly (and the Book Boar) · Rating 3 out of 5]

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The Tuesday Night Club is a super shorty-short by Agatha Christie about a group of six folks (Miss Marple included – in her debut before she became the focus of her own book series) who decide to create a club that will meet weekly in order to discuss unsolved mysteries. The first case covered being . . . .

After a supper of canned lobster and a dessert of canned trifle, three people become ill and Mrs Jones is found dead.

You’re probably thinking what I was thinking – no mystery to be solved here, pretty simple answer . . . .



But you would be wrong.

Confession time: I picked this up because I am addicted to the stupid-as-hell-so-please-don’t-judge-me Aurora Teagarden movies that can be found on the Hallmark Murders & Mysteries channel (I’ve read a goodly chunk of the book versions as well). At some point I noticed the credits naming this little story as the inspiration behind Charlaine Harris’ series so I had to check it out. Obviously at less than 30 pages this wasn’t any sort of life changer, but it was a fun way to spend 15 minutes and discover where one of my favorite guilty pleasures sprouted from.

[Julie · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have been an avid Agatha Christie fan for 43 years. I first fell in love with her classic mysteries when I bought a box set of Hercule Poirot books at a garage sale. I spent an entire summer sneaking away to my room to read all about little grey cells and waxed moustaches. Flash forward to present time, and this year I decided to go on a reading journey through all of Christie's mystery writing in publication order. At times I have made mistakes and had to backtrack slightly. Christie often published short stories in magazines and then later collected them into story collections at a later date.

Only after finishing Christie's first novel featuring Miss Marple (published in 1930) did I discover that the first Marple short stories were published in 1927 and then later released in book form (The Thirteen Problems/The Tuesday Club Murders) in 1932. Backtrack! :)

The Tuesday Night Club is the first appearance of Miss Marple. She joins a group of five friends who propose to form a club that looks at old, unsolved police cases. Being of varied professions and life experiences, they want to ascertain which of them is best at discovering the truth. The story is short, but interesting. The other members of the club seem to discount Jane Marple because a spinster can't possibly understand life and human nature as well as people more accustomed to the world can....right?? *Smile*

This story is nearly 100 years old. But it's still a fun bit of sleuthing and a great introduction to one of Christie's most classic characters. There were some things I had to look up -- language and references change a lot in 93 years! So I did a bit of sleuthing on my own!

Corn-flour. Christie mentions a sick woman who asked for a bowl of corn-flour because she is feeling bad. It refers to it as a drink, not prepared like hot cereal or grits. The internet is a lovely thing and I discovered the nature of this "bowl of corn-flour'' pretty quickly. It's basically milk, sugar, spices, and vanilla thickened with corn flour. I can see how this would be soothing to someone with an upset stomach. And it sounds very similar to Mexican Atole. Here's a recipe link:

https://www.goya.com/en/recipes/mexic...

Banting. At one point the woman who feels ill tells her cook to drink the corn-flour as she doesn't approve of the cook "banting" to lose weight. Banting? Once again I turned to the internet. William Banting was a undertaker....and he struggled with his weight. So, at the urging of his physician, he went on a diet -- low carb, low sugar, high fat. It worked well and he lost his extra weight. So then he wrote a popular pamphlet on his diet plan....and his name became synonymous with dieting...particularly low carb diets. Doesn't his plan sound familar??? ha ha. And we all thought Keto was something new.....it's just banting done over 2000's style. The diabetic diet with some added facets...rebranded. Just think what William Banting could have done if Pinterest existed way back then! :)

Hundreds and thousands. This was a cooking reference. I was like hmmmmmm.....another UK/US English conundrum. This one was easy though -- one quick internet search. Hundreds and thousands are.....cupcake sprinkles!

Lovely story! Definitely a fun read and a nice intro for one of my favorite amateur sleuths! And I got to do a bit of internet ferreting as well. Lots of fun packed into a short 16 page story!

I actually own a hardback copy of Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories (Putnam, 1985), but I'm going to review these short stories one at a time because I do background research on each one. I did the same thing when I read through the first Hercule Poirot stories....so much fun!

On to the next -- The Idol House of Astarte!

[Alan (on December semi-hiatus) Teder · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Tuesday Night Club aka The Thirteen Problems
Review of the Revelation Press Kindle eBook (April 4, 2023) of the Collins Crime Club (UK) hardcover original (June 1932).

‘Well,’ said Joyce, ‘it seems to me we are a pretty representative gathering. How would it be if we formed a Club? What is today? Tuesday? We will call it The Tuesday Night Club. It is to meet every week, and each member in turn has to propound a problem. Some mystery of which they have personal knowledge, and to which, of course, they know the answer.’

Long before The Thursday Murder Club (2020) there was the Tuesday Night Club. Originally published with the title The Thirteen Problems in 1932, it is a collection of 13 Miss Marple short stories. It is considered Miss Marple #1 as all of the stories appeared in magazines from 1927 to 1931. The first Miss Marple novel The Murder at the Vicarage (1930) was published after most of the stories had already seen print. The stories are loosely connected in that they are each told by alternating individuals to a group of others who are then challenged to provide solutions or explanations to the various mysteries. Miss Marple solves every one of them of course.

Several characters who appear in the later Miss Marple novels make their first appearances in these stories, including Miss Marple's nephew Raymond West, his later wife Joan (but who was first named Joyce in the short stories), ex-Scotland Yard Commissioner Sir Henry Clithering and Colonel Arthur Bantry and his wife Dolly Bantry.

The story synopses below include only set-ups and do not reveal endings, so I have not spoiler blocked them. I haven't assigned individual story ratings as I enjoyed all of these as 4 stars.
The first block of 6 stories starts at the home of Miss Marple.
1. The Tuesday Night Club The first 6 person group meets and decides on a name. Sir Henry Clithering tells the first story about a woman who died from apparent poisoning.
2. The Idol House of Astarte A clergyman Dr. Pender tells a story about a man who died at his own garden shrine built to honour a Phoenician goddess.
3. Ingots of Gold Novelist Raymond West tells a story of treasure seekers after a hoard of gold from the Spanish Armada.
4. The Bloodstained Pavement Artist Joyce Lemprière (later to become Joan West) tells a story she observed of a couple who meet an acquaintance. The acquaintance apparently goes missing.
5. Motive v Opportunity Lawyer Mr. Petherick tells a story about how the children of a client fought over a will with some spiritualists who were trying to defraud their father.
6. The Thumb Mark of St. Peter Miss Marple tells a story of how she saved a niece from the suspicion of murdering her husband.

A year later, another group meets at the home of the Bantrys, so several of the story tellers are different.
7. The Blue Geranium Arthur Bantry tells a story of a woman who was haunted by predictions of death accompanied by blue flowers appearing on her wallpaper.
8. The Companion Dr. Lloyd tells a story of meeting two women while on vacation, one of whom mysteriously drowns.
9. The Four Suspects Sir Henry Clithering tells a story of how a criminal investigator was murdered by one of four suspects in his own household, in an apparent revenge killing.
10. A Christmas Tragedy Miss Marple tells a story of how she became suspicious of a husband's murderous intentions when she observed a couple on vacation at a spa resort.
11. The Herb of Death Mrs. Dolly Banty tells a story of a poisoning.
12. The Affair at the Bungalow Actress Jane Heller tells a story of a playwright who becomes mixed up in an affair.

A later story is added to complete a 'baker's dozen'.
13. Death by Drowning Sir Henry Clithering is again visiting the village of St. Mary Mead when a local girl is found drowned with murder suspected. Miss Marple assists in solving the crime.


The cover of the original Collins Crime Club (UK) 1932 edition. Image sourced from Wikipedia. Note Spoiler Warning: The plots of all of the stories are provided in detailed summaries here.

I read this as part of my 2023 Agatha Christie / Miss Marple binge read but didn’t get a review posted at the time, so this is a catchup review.

Trivia and Links
The Thirteen Problems is in the Public Domain and there are many cheap eBook editions available. It can also be read or listened to online at sites such as Archive.org.

[Jack Heath · Rating 5 out of 5]

5 Stars. Say hello to Miss Marple. The Tuesday Night Club is a short story from Royal Magazine in 1927, later collected with nineteen others in Miss Marple: the Complete Short Stories. It's her debut; you'll smile. Many of the characteristics we love about her can be found in these fifteen compact pages. So well written by Christie. Let's get to it. Miss M sits quietly in the corner knitting and listening. None of the others even see her as a participant; she's only author Raymond West's fluffy old aunt. West has gathered together four friends for a discussion of unsolved mysteries at Aunt Jane's house - the right atmosphere he believes. The most important personage is Sir Henry Clithering who recently retired as Commissioner of Scotland Yard. He is reluctant to discuss a current case, but one has just been solved. That's OK and he outlines the facts. A woman died about a year earlier of what was thought to be ptomaine poisoning. It turned out to be arsenic but the husband, somewhat of a womanizer and in need of insurance money, was off the hook. It reminds me of old Mr. Hargraves, says Miss Marple. She proceeds to astonish the group with the solution. (Jul2020/De2025)

[William · Rating 5 out of 5]

Entertaining mysteries listening 🎶🤔🎧🤗🎵

I purchased this novel from Amazon

A number of short stories by Agatha Christie each with interesting will characters. Each mystery different as the club listen and try to come to a solution of what happened.

I would recommend this novel and author to fans of Agatha Christie and British mystery novels. 2024

[Susan in NC · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love Miss Marple! I started reading this thinking it was a short story collection, but it is just the one 30+ page short story; I’ve found others on Scribd with the same bright yellow cover that I will also read.

Here, Miss Marple and her nephew Raymond meet with several friends and discuss unsolved mysteries- this one provided by Sir Henry, Miss Marple’s old friend and former head of Scotland Yard.

Of course, everyone comes up with a clever twist on who the guilty party is once Henry lays out the facts of the case, but only Miss M. figures out the murderer, relying on her experience of human nature after years of observing life in her small village.

[Riju Ganguly · Rating 4 out of 5]

In the beginning, there was this story.
It had a bunch of pleasant but unusual characters in a cozy setting. A story-telling session commenced and reached a certain stage. A challenge was thrown to all.
And the most unlikely person came out with the right answer.
Today, this would sound boring and trite. But this is the original, from whom bloomed so many strange and beautiful stories.
The mystery was not earth-shattering even then, i.e. almost a century ago. But even today we remember the story for the characters, the wary but accurate observations, and the nuanced exploration of human psyche by the adorable and very-very sharp Miss Marple.
If you haven’t read it yet, rectify the situation ASAP.

[Flo · Rating 3 out of 5]

A couple of weeks ago, we were discussing literary criticism in class and one of my professors said writers like Agatha Christie or Arthur Conan Doyle weren't as good as Raymond Chandler and others - whose names I don't recall now since I'm not into crime/mystery fiction that much - because they didn't focus on the psychological aspect of the mystery, so the narrative became this mechanical¹​ thing with similar problems solved by an outstanding intellect. I haven't read much but I see his point. Actions stand out in these kinds of stories but there's little to none psychological depth. Their main purpose is to entertain, which is not a bad thing at all (I'd rather read these at the hairdressing salon than their magazines from 2010).

For instance, in The Tuesday night club there are several references to the physiognomy of the characters or their clothes (using words I don't even remember now as I don't pay attention to fashion and it's all fabric to me) but no proper character development. It was a fun read, yes, but I gather that after a while and a certain amount of these short stories, you may find them flat and even predictable at times.


July 22, 18
¹ So mechanical that I wrote almost the same review for both Christie and Doyle's short stories.
* Later on my blog.

[Suja · Rating 4 out of 5]

I haven't read any of Miss. Marple's books and I picked this up since this is a first book where she makes her appearance. There is not much of a hoopla in which she is introduced, but she just makes her presence as another person in the party of 6. I was glad that the portrayal fit my imagination of Miss Marple.

A very simple story where 6 people are gathered in a room (presumably for a dinner party or a informal get together of sorts) and Miss Marple is one amongst them. All the guests decide that they should form a Tuesday Night club where each one of them brings about a case and the others try to solve it. The onus of presenting the first case falls on one of the guests who happens to be the ex commissioner of Scotland yard. Miss Marple emerges a winner as expected.

The story was decent and not a huge crime thriller. But I still enjoyed reading it. I am starting off with Miss Marple's books and I hope to enjoy them more than this

[Richard · Rating 5 out of 5]

Well, well - time to take stock.
Previously available in a collection of Miss Marple’s short stories they have now been released individually as ebooks - currently 99p.

The Tuesday Night Club is the first of these. “first published in Royal Magazine, December 1927”. “This was Miss Marple’s debut, a full two years before her first appearance in a full-length novel, The Murder at the Vicarage (Collins, 1930).”

Looking at the title some may feel Agatha Christie nicked the idea off Richard Osman where similarly six people meet to solve cold cases as The Thursday Murder Club.

In this original short story however the ‘action’ takes place in an author’s home, a certain Raymond West who has his aunt staying with him - Miss Marple with her knitting, quite unforgettable in the background. Front and centre stage are West’s guests. A doctor, a lawyer, a police officer and an artist.

As a parlour game they suggest each week one of them will pose an unsolved mystery that each can use their professional background and expertise of human nature to solve.

Reluctantly they included Miss Marple who may drop a stitch along the way but in her trademark understanding of the people living in St Mary’s Mead she might have some insight the others lack.

Hence Miss Marple was born and a seed was sown for a celebrity to launch his own writing career.

[Agla · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was OK. It is a collection of short stories which were uneven. Some were easy to follow, others less so. The characters don't really have personalities, not even Marple. She is obviously always right and unlike Poirot she is always taking herself down and has no confidence. That wasn't the best. I'll keep rzqding her adventures and hopefully she gets more fleshed out in a full length novel.

[౨ৎDOUAE౨ৎ · Rating 4 out of 5]

Such a fun read.

[Cathy Cole · Rating 4 out of 5]

This first appearance of Miss Marple sets her up perfectly as an elderly lady whom others tend to overlook, yet those sharp eyes and that razor of a brain mean she doesn't miss a thing. She's always able to use someone in St. Mary Mead as an example of why she could figure something out-- which leads me to think that that little village is much wilder and woolier than Miss Marple would like anyone to know!

[Natalia · Rating 4 out of 5]

The first Ms Marple and the beginning of all the other adventures. What do YOU bring to the Tuesday night club?

[Verba Non Res · Rating 4 out of 5]

Esta historia de 1932 es la primera aparición de Miss Marple, y sus rasgos característicos: viejita ingeniosa, primero subestimada luego admirada, medio insoportable en su falsa modestia, conocedora de la naturaleza humana antes que de la ciencia criminal. Este primer misterio gira alrededor de una frase polisémica; todos los involucrados la entienden de una determinada manera, condicionados por su interpretación de los hechos, pero es la mundana Miss Marple la que da con la interpretación –y la solución- correcta.

Cuento #1 de Los trece problemas .

Siguiente: “The Idol House of Astarte”

[Anjanette · Rating 3 out of 5]

Simple case, forgettable. I do like the idea of the club.

[Stacy Myers · Rating 4 out of 5]

I picked up this Christie book after too long of a hiatus. I had forgotten how much I love Miss Marple. She’s so unsuspecting. 😂😂


A Tuesday night club where an unsolved mystery is presented and the attendees make their guess. Of course, Miss Marple wins. 😉

[Tammy Chaffins · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love Agatha Christie, the orginal mystery writer. Miss Marple out smarts all the rest!

[Meg · Rating 5 out of 5]

The introduction of Miss Marple as a member of an impromptu club that discusses interesting unsolved mysteries. The other members include Miss Marple’s nephew, Raymond, the chippy Joyce, who definitely throws a lot of shade at Miss Marple, Sir Henry, Dr. Pender, a clergyman, and Mr. Petherick, a solicitor. Sir Henry tells the first tale. Mr. Jones, his wife and her companion, Miss Clark, all become ill after eating tinned lobster for dinner and Mrs. Jones dies. A maid in the hotel where Mr. Jones was recently staying discovers that he wrote a letter while there speaking of his wife and how he is dependent upon her and that when she dies he shall have “hundreds and thousands.” Well everyone then naturally suspects that he killed his wife and soon her body is exhumed and found to contain arsenic. However, they cannot figure how he had any opportunity to poison her since he was away from home until the dinner and everyone ate the same thing. Miss Marple figures out that the letter was to the housemaid who was told to make the trifle with the “hundreds and thousands “ that he gave to her, which were arsenic. He scraped them off and did not consume them and Miss Clark was on a diet so she didn’t eat any dessert. I have no idea what “hundreds and thousands” are but according to Miss Marple, they are the “pink and white sugar things” that cooks put on a trifle. Sounds like sprinkles to me. Since I had no idea what they were, I had no chance of solving the puzzle, but it gets 5 stars for Miss Marple and her plucky attitude, especially toward Joyce who didn’t want to include her in the club at all and didn’t want to give her a chance at guessing how Mrs. Jones was killed. Miss Marple plays into her rudeness perfectly by acting like an old, senile lady who can’t possibly knit and listen to the story and think of the solution without dropping a stitch. Of course, she does not only all three things simultaneously but can do them while running circles around the other members of the club.

[Katherine · Rating 4 out of 5]

A classic Miss Marple tale!

[mairiachi · Rating 2 out of 5]

This wasn't amazing, but ofc it was interesting. I find about all Agatha Christie shorts interesting, so it doesn't take much. This one just didn't have the normal wow factor that I feel like is included in most of her stories. I would read it if I wanted something quick to pick up, but otherwise it's easy to skip.

[Danie ♡ · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5
Miss Marple is so much fun to read!

[Dennis Brock · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting concept in this story. I thoroughly enjoyed it! I love Miss Marple!

[Maria · Rating 3 out of 5]

A very clever short story by Agatha Christie. An introduction to Miss Marple. This is not my favorite short story by this author but it is clever and very well written.

[Darinda · Rating 4 out of 5]

A Miss Marple short story. Light and entertaining.