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Celebrating Miss Marple, expert on the wickedness of village life

The elderly spinster with a fine sense of evil was a creation Agatha Christie never tired of – unlike the ‘tiresome, egocentric’ Hercule Poirot

14 December 2024

9:00 AM

14 December 2024

9:00 AM

Agatha Christie’s Marple: Expert on Wickedness Mark Aldridge

Harper Collins, pp.448, 25

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