Overview: The Body in The Library by Agatha Christie

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Book Report: The Body in the Library
What if you wake up one morning and find a dead blond next to your bookshelves? That’s what the Bantry’s have to face one day, in Agatha Christie’s crime novel titled “The body in the library”. This report is based on the conventional detective story published 1942. It is full of special features making it a rather sensational reworking of the typical crime fiction stereotypes.
The 1890 born British author Agatha Christie is probably the world’s most famous crime fiction novelist along with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes. Agatha, daughter of an American father and an English mother, never went to school, yet her mother educated her privately at home. Christie didn’t only write books, which were translated into more than 102 languages but also plays that ran in London’s West End. Her books are ranked 3rd as the most widely published of after the bible and Shakespeare’s works. Her unique career releasing 666 novels, 154 shirt stores and 20 plays, wasn’t only awarded with the Order of the British Empire 5 years before her death in 1976, but was also named a Dame by Queen Elizabeth II in the same year.
A young blonde girl is found dead in Colonel Bantry’s library. Although her husband inform the police, Mrs. Bantry asks her friend “amateur detective” Miss Marple to join the investigation. Josie Turner, the victim’s cousin, identifies the body as ruby Keene, a professional dancer at the Majestic a nearby hotel in Danemouth. The Glenshire and Radforshire police cooperate to solve the crime, only discovering another murdered girl’s guide body, totally burnt out in a car that was set on fire. Despite the two crimes seem unrelated to the police Miss Marple finds the connection cl...

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...Henry, though he describes himself as an “amateur sleuth” (p.125). But it is Miss Marple who solves the case, although most investigations are done by the police. She is the one who finds the murderer, putting the right theory, after young Peter Carmody, Adelaide Jefferson’s son, serves an important piece of evidence.
Overall “The Body in the Library” is a unique piece of detective fiction, written by ‘the empress of the detective story’ Agatha Christie. It serves another solid experience of crimes in her book. I strongly recommend it to those who like detective stories, as it serves the tension, the plot, the theories, the characters, etc. - in short everything like it should be in a perfect detective story.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Body_in_the_Library

http://shirley-mybookshelf.blogspot.com/2011/07/book-review-body-in-library-by-agatha.html

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