Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories, (Hardcover)

from bezoar44

Enjoyable, light. Stock characters recount mysteries and consistently stump each other, but not Miss Marple, who solves each crime through analogy with the behaviors of residents in her small town. It is a refreshing departure from ratiocination and deduction, but given the constraints of the sho...

from smik

20 short stories actually come from only 3 collections * The Thirteen Problems * Miss Marple's Final Cases * The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding a bit patchy, and a couple of them were downright improbable. All the stories tended to suffer a bit from the need to write sparingly, to keep the pl...

from sonofcradock

I like Miss Marple herself as a character and therefore rate it highly. But the stories, as a whole, are rather uneven. Some very compelling, others very not so much so. I think they get better as they go on and as Christie fleshes them out to full stories instead of puzzles. The ones where Marpl...

from reading_fox

Fun. A mixed bag as in all short story collections, but generally enjoyable. Miss Marple is perhaps not as famous as Hercule Poirot, but still one of Mrs Christies best creations. As a spinster living in a viallage she has plenty of opportunity for observing human nature, and relating tales of vi...

from JBD1

All of the Marple short stories, between two covers. Great short mysteries, though not reading a whole bunch of them right in a row may be a better idea than just romping straight through them.