Tuesday, February 4, 2025

Marple

Last night I watched two of the Joan Hickson Miss Marple mysteries. I think Hickson is by far the best Marple on screen. I've owned the DVDs of that series for some time but last night, I watched streaming on Britbox and was glad I did — the episodes have been restored and are beautiful. I saw "The Moving Finger" and "A Pocket Full of Rye," neither of which I had watched recently and much longer since read. Speaking of the books, today I came across one reader's ranking of the twelve Agatha Christie's in which Miss Marple appears:
  • A Murder is Announced
    (1950)
  • The Moving Finger (1942)
  • The Body in the Library (1942)
  • A Pocket Full of Rye (1953)
  • The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side (1962)
  • Sleeping Murder (1976)
  • The Murder at the Vicarage (1930)
  • A Caribbean Mystery (1964)
  • 4.50 from Paddington (1957)
  • They Do It with Mirrors (1952)
  • Nemesis (1971)
  • At Bertram’s Hotel (1965)
Not bad, although I would rank The 4:50 from Paddington a bit higher.

Jose Ignacio Escribano, "My Ranking of the Twelve Miss Marple Novels," A Crime is Afoot, Feb. 4, 2025.

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