A Christmas Tragedy

A Miss Marple Short Story

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A Christmas Tragedy

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Joan Hickson

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A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time on audio.

Whilst dining at the Bantrys, Miss Marple is asked to tell a murder mystery. She recounts the time she could tell from a man’s behaviour that he was planning to kill his wife. But at the time of the murder he had a perfect alibi…

Agatha ChristieJoan HicksonHarperCollinsMiss Marple

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‘The plots are so good that one marvels … most of them would have made a full length thriller.’ Daily Mirror

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Joan Higson is the definitive Miss Marple, as exemplified here.
She only lets her guard down once - the editors failed to spot the first mention of MM’s village being St. Mary’S Mead and correctly as St. Mary Mead thereafter. But I can forgive Joan Higson anything, there is no other Miss Marple.
Classic Christie plot and I particularly liked the ending,