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Sanctuary: a Miss Marple Short Story (Miss Marple #SS 20)
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bookshelves: agatha-christie, audio, crime, mystery, hoopla, read-in-2022, short-stories, read-in-a-different-collection
Oct 02, 2022
bookshelves: agatha-christie, audio, crime, mystery, hoopla, read-in-2022, short-stories, read-in-a-different-collection
A man dies from a gunshot wound in the parson's wife's arms, whispering the word sanctuary with his dying breath.
A little dramatic, no?
And yet.
Diana Harmon, the parson's wife aka Bunch (I just love these old nicknames), is confused and startled by the whole thing, but she's a level-headed woman and reacts accordingly, sending for both the doctor and the police. So it's not until the dead man's sister and her husband show up, asking what his last words were and wanting to take his blood-stained jacket home with them for sentimental reasons, that Bunch's suspicions take her to her back to her St. Mary Mead to seek the advice of Jane Marple.
Miss Marple and Bunch run a sting with the help of Jane's constable friends and uncover some shady thieves. Along the way, they also uncover a romantic tale of a dancer and her jewels, a daring prison escape, and a little orphan girl.
Originally published in 1954 in This Week magazine using the title Murder at the Vicarage, but this is not the same Miss Marple story as THE Murder at the Vicarage.
Read in the short story collection Double Sin and Other Stories & Midwinter Murder: Fireside Tales from the Queen of Mystery
A little dramatic, no?
And yet.
Diana Harmon, the parson's wife aka Bunch (I just love these old nicknames), is confused and startled by the whole thing, but she's a level-headed woman and reacts accordingly, sending for both the doctor and the police. So it's not until the dead man's sister and her husband show up, asking what his last words were and wanting to take his blood-stained jacket home with them for sentimental reasons, that Bunch's suspicions take her to her back to her St. Mary Mead to seek the advice of Jane Marple.
Miss Marple and Bunch run a sting with the help of Jane's constable friends and uncover some shady thieves. Along the way, they also uncover a romantic tale of a dancer and her jewels, a daring prison escape, and a little orphan girl.
Originally published in 1954 in This Week magazine using the title Murder at the Vicarage, but this is not the same Miss Marple story as THE Murder at the Vicarage.
Read in the short story collection Double Sin and Other Stories & Midwinter Murder: Fireside Tales from the Queen of Mystery
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August 31, 2022
– Shelved