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Agatha Christie’s Marple

Expert on Wickedness

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By: Mark Aldridge, Agatha Christie
Narrated by: Jane Slavin
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A new investigation from Dr Mark Aldridge, exploring a lifetime of Agatha Christie’s Miss Jane Marple.

Winner of the 2025 H.R.F Keating Award for the best 2024 biography or critical book related to crime fiction.

In Agatha Christie’s Marple: Expert on Wickedness,‘Agathologist’ Dr Mark Aldridge looks at nearly a century of St Mary Mead’s most famous resident and uses his own detective skills to uncover new information about Miss Jane Marple’s appearances on page, stage, screen and beyond.

Drawing on a range of material, some of which is newly discovered and previously unpublished, this book explores everything about Miss Marple, from her origins in a series of short stories penned by Christie, to the recent bestselling HarperCollins collection Marple: Twelve New Stories.

This accessible, entertaining and illustrated guide to the world of Miss Marple pieces together the evidence in order to tell you everything you need to know about the world’s favourite female detective.

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Critic reviews

PRAISE FOR AGATHA CHRISTIE’S MARPLE
'This is a book that will not only thrill existing super-fans but which also has the power to create more of them.’ SOPHIE HANNAH
‘As bright, engaging and irresistible as the old girl herself. I devoured it!’ MARK GATISS
‘This book is the greatest of treats for any Marple fan. An indispensible companion … full of amusing asides and anecdotes.’ LUCY FOLEY
'This accessible, entertaining and illustrated guide to the world of Miss Marple pieces together the evidence in order to tell you everything you need to know about the world’s favourite female detective.’ AYO ONATADE, SHOTSMAG
PRAISE FOR AGATHA CHRISTIE’S POIROT: The Greatest Detective in the World
‘Delightful, detailed and compulsively readable.’ MARK GATISS
‘What a magnificent book! An essential component of every Poirot fan's book collection. I couldn't put it down.’ SOPHIE HANNAH
‘Exhaustively and entertainingly surveys the book, stage, radio, magazine and film appearances of that fussy little Belgian.’ MICHAEL DIRDA, WASHINGTON POST
'This quirky, trivia-filled look at a touchstone of detective fiction will have Christie fans young and old in heaven.' PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
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Love the book from start to finish , Chronicles Christie career , giving some insights into what she thought about adaptions of her books from tv series to films. A must read for any Christie enthusiast

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Have been looking forward to this since it was announced a year ago - and have been frustrated by the delays in publication dates. But it is well worth the wait!
Author clearly knows his stuff, has spoken to actors concerned and spins a great yarn.
Reading is ok, marred by a few off pronunciations.

Everything you ever wanted to know about Jane Marple

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So wanted to enjoy this but although I am sure the research is excellent the narration appalling and is oddly like AI reading it with the emphasis in all the wrong places (or mainly not at all) and lots of heavy breathing and an oddly soft narration inappropriate for a factual book (albeit a fictional topic). I did listen tp a preview but that was just the preface/introduction being read out so assumed it would improve once we got to actual text - it didn't!!! returning. Have 2 stars to story just because couldn't actually listen to it.

Breathy and oddly punctuated narration

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