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A Murder Is Announced
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Overview
First published in 1950, A Murder Is Announced is a mystery novel by one of the leading writers of the Golden Age of detective fiction: Agatha Christie, “Queen of Crime.” Although best known for her Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot novels such as Murder at the Vicarage and The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Christie also published short story collections and wrote the world’s longest-running play—The Mousetrap (1952). Her fiction has inspired numerous film and television adaptations. A Murder Is Announced was Christie’s fourth novel featuring the amateur sleuth, Miss Marple.
This guide refers to the 2010 HarperCollins eBook edition.
Plot Summary
Told through a third-person limited perspective, the novel is set in post-World War II England and explores a series of murders in the fictional village of Chipping Cleghorn.
A notice in the Chipping Cleghorn Gazette announces a forthcoming murder, an event advertised for 6:30pm at Little Paddocks. Letitia Blacklock is the owner of Little Paddocks but claims to know nothing about the announcement. In residence with her are Dora Bunner (a childhood friend), Patrick and Julia Simmons (distant cousins), and a young woman, Phillipa Haymes, who lost her husband in the war and independently supports her son.
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