![]() ![]() ![]() Bantry immediately called up Miss Jane Marple, saying she knew she was good at murders, and Dolly Bantry was determined to play amateur sleuth with Miss Marple’s help. It was a maid who discovered the body in the library first thing in the morning, and woke Dolly Bantry. Bantry, old friends of Miss Marple’s, and she added the cast as a recipe for a mystery. She put it in Gossington Hall, home of Colonel and Mrs. Because so many of think of Agatha Christie as creating so many elements we now see as common tropes in mysteries, I never expected her to say “the body in the library” was a mystery cliche, and she was just waiting for the right library to come along to use in one of her books. I didn’t know she ever wrote forewords to her mysteries. I was surprised to find a foreword from Christie in this book. ![]() I love the cover of The Body in the Library. And, there’s so much I missed when I first read these books when I was in high school. If the Miss Marple mysteries by Agatha Christie hadn’t been redesigned, I probably wouldn’t have gone back to read the early books. ![]()
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