num_pages: 380
description: Murder at the Vicarage marks the debut of Agatha Christie’s unflappable and much beloved female detective, Miss Jane Marple. With her gift for sniffing out the malevolent side of human nature, Miss Marple is led on her first case to a crime scene at the local vicarage. Colonel Protheroe, the magistrate whom everyone in town hates, has been shot through the head. No one heard the shot. There are no leads. Yet, everyone surrounding the vicarage seems to have a reason to want the Colonel dead. It is a race against the clock as Miss Marple sets out on the twisted trail of the mysterious killer without so much as a bit of help from the local police.
language: English
title: The Murder at the Vicarage
titlecomplete: The Murder at the Vicarage (Miss Marple, #1)
characters: Hawes, Mary Hill, Anne Protheroe, Griselda Clement, Inspector Slack, Dr. Haydock, Lawrence Redding, Gladys Cram, Raymond West, Colonel Melchett, Dennis Clement, Lettice Protheroe, Miss Marple, Leonard Clement, Dr. Stone, Mrs. LeStrange, Colonel Protheroe, Sir Henry Clithering
genres: Classics, Cozy Mystery, British Literature, Mystery, Detective, Thriller, Audiobook, Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Crime
ratings_count: 183392
places: England, St. Mary Mead, England
series: Miss Marple
publisher: HarperCollins Publishers