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The Murder at the Vicarage
''The Murder at the Vicarage'' is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in October 1930〔Chris Peers, Ralph Spurrier and Jamie Sturgeon. ''Collins Crime Club – A checklist of First Editions''. Dragonby Press (Second Edition) March 1999 (p. 14)〕 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year.〔John Cooper and B.A. Pyke. ''Detective Fiction – the collector's guide'': Second Edition (pp. 82, 86) Scholar Press. 1994. ISBN 0-85967-991-8〕〔(American Tribute to Agatha Christie )〕 The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6)〔 and the US edition at $2.00.〔
It is the first novel to feature the character of Miss Marple, although the character had previously appeared in short stories published in ''The Royal Magazine'' and ''The Story-Teller Magazine'', starting in December 1927. These earlier stories would later appear in book form in ''The Thirteen Problems'' in 1932.
==Plot summary==
In St. Mary Mead, no one is more despised than Colonel Lucius Protheroe. Even the local vicar has said that killing him would be doing a service to the townsfolk. So when Protheroe is found murdered in the same vicar's study, and two different people confess to the crime, it is time for the elderly spinster Jane Marple to exercise her detecting abilities. According to Miss Marple, there are seven suspects, including the Vicar himself. After some juggling of clues and events, Miss Marple, using her excellent deductive skills, determines the facts of the crime.
At the end, she finds that the two people who confessed were, indeed, the real murderers and simply wanted to evade suspicion. Mrs Anne Protheroe, wife of the deceased, and Lawrence Redding, her lover, committed the crime. The vicar and his wife, Leonard and Griselda Clement, who made their first appearance in this novel, continue to show up in Miss Marple stories: notably, in ''The Body in the Library'' (1942) and 4.50 from Paddington'' (1957).
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