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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 (Creator)|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.
 
In the abovementioned St Mary Mead, there is [[Sarcasm Mode|a general climate of harmony and good-will]] and everyone gets along. Everyone, that is, except Colonel Protheroe, the most disliked man in the village. His daughter wishes he would do a good thing and die, and even the vicar observes that killing him would be a service to the townsfolk. Then, Protheroe [[Asshole Victim|is found murdered]] in the vicar's study. His [[Your Cheating Heart|unfaithful wife]] and her artist lover both confess to the murder, to the great confusion of Inspector Slack. It's up to Miss Marple to make sense of this story and find out who really did it...