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“There is no detective in England equal to a spinster lady of uncertain age with plenty of time on her hands”

Miss Marple’s debut, The Murder at the Vicarage, enters the US public domain in 47 days. Not her most beloved case, but praised by Dorothy L. Sayers, it introduces St. Mary Mead and a sharper early Miss Marple.

by John Mark Ockerbloom

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