Murder at the Vicarage
Just started re-reading this the other night as I have not gone to the library to find the Mysterious Mr. Quin.I noticed that the vicar & his wife don't like Miss Marple. They call her an old cat...
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Hi Christi - I think the evolution that you speak of began in this very book! I don't want to give anything away if you've not read it, but the vicar and his wife see her in a different light once the...
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Hi Kerri and Christi,You're so right, Miss Marple changed much more than Poirot did, in the first novel she really only has a small part, most of the book seen through the eyes of Leonard Clement,...
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Hi Friends -I agree. I really got the impression that Miss Marple was looked on as just a "nosy old busybody" at first in this book. But in later books, she mentions Griselda quite fondly. She really...
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I have indeed read this before, but it's been awhile so I don't really recall that MM changed "during" the book. I'll have to look for it. Thanks, all.
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Christi - I don't believe Miss Marple 'changed', I think the opinion of the Vicar and his wife regarding their 'nosy neighbour' changed by the end of the tale!
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You could be right, Kerri. As Mike says, the story is told from the Vicar's POV.
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Please! Kerri is right. Miss. Marple is the same from the beginning in Murder at the Vicarage until the final book written Nemesis.
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(Copy of post from the Miss Marple TV/Movies Topic)Actually, though this post started as a discussion of the video it has sort of evolved into a discussion of the book. I've received my audio book...
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I think the TV Griselda is well toned down from the book Griselda, who I always thought was extremely flighty and very, very young, but still a likeable character for me.
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I'm one quarter through (one cassette tape)the story and I somehow missed it when Dennis Clement, the sixteen year old was introduced. Who is he?In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity is...
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Quoted from The Agatha Christie Who Is Who:Clement, DennisLeonard Clement's sixteen year old nephew, he was fascinated with the subject of murderand attempted to carry out an amatuer investigation. He...
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