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{{quote| Inspector Slack: "I thought it was looking too good to be true. Soon as I saw that nice-looking, grey-haired cobra sliding about, I should've known better."<br />▼
| title = The Murder at the Vicarage
Sergeant Lake: "Huh?"<br />▼
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| author = Agatha Christie
| central theme =
| elevator pitch = The most hated man of a small village is murdered in the vicar's house, and so many people wanted him dead the police have to rope the local inquisitive old lady into helping to find the ''actual'' culprit
| genre = Crime novel
| franchise = Miss Marple
| followed by = The Body in the Library
| publication date = October 1930
| source page exists =
| wiki URL =
| wiki name =
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▲{{quote|
Inspector Slack: "The Marple woman sticks to this sort of business like chewing gum to the cat." }}
Detective novel by [[
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The book is narrated in first person by the vicar, Leonard Clement.
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* [[Adaptation Distillation]]: The 2004 version.
* [[Asshole Victim]]: Colonel Protheroe.
* [[Aw, Look -- They Really Do Love Each Other]]: At the start of the novel, Len's so irritated with Griselda, he contemplates writing to the archbishop that the Church should bring back celibacy into the clergy. At the end of the novel...
* [[Black Widow]]: Anne Protheroe.
* [[Characterization Marches On]]: Miss Marple is at times a rather bossy, nosy, unpleasant woman throughout the course of the book. Having realized that she wanted to write more stories with Marple as the detective, Christie toned down on some of these characteristics for later mysteries.
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* [[Gossipy Hens]]: Several of them. [[Miss Marple]] humorously admits she is one at one point.
* [[Happily Married]]: Leonard and Griselda Clement, oddly enough.
* [[Hopeless Suitor]]: Lettice is in love with Lawrence Redding, who's in love with [[Big Screwed
* [[Little Old Lady Investigates]]
* [[Luke, I Am Your Father]]: Mrs Lestrange is Lettice's mother.
* [[May
* [[Slap Slap Kiss]]: Replace "Slap slap" (he is a vicar after all) with "frequent feelings of irritation" and you have the Clements' marriage.
* [[Sticky Fingers]]: Curate Hawes.
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