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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
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| 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
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Inspector Slack: "The Marple woman sticks to this sort of business like chewing gum to the cat." }}
Detective novel by [[Agatha Christie]]. This is the first novel (but not the first book) to feature [[Miss Marple]], the [[Blatant Lies|harmless]] old lady who lives at the [[Stepford Suburbia|idyllic]] village of St Mary Mead and [[Mystery Magnet|just happens]] to [[Little Old Lady Investigates|constantly bump into murders]]. She is notable for her ability to draw parallels between murder mysteries and ordinary village incidents. She is Christie's second most famous but personal favorite detective.
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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.
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