{"id":24631,"date":"2025-06-01T08:58:22","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T12:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=24631"},"modified":"2025-09-29T22:06:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T02:06:25","slug":"a-murder-is-announced-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/24631","title":{"rendered":"A Murder Is Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Murder Is Announced<\/em> (1950) Agatha Christie<\/a> (Miss Marple, #5)<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

\u201cI do wish you wouldn\u2019t read that horrid paper, Edmund. Mrs. Finch doesn\u2019t like it at all.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t see what my political views have to do with Mrs. Finch.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cAnd it isn\u2019t,\u201d pursued Mrs. Swettenham, \u201cas though you were a worker. You don\u2019t do any work at all.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s not in the least true,\u201d said Edmund indignantly. \u201cI\u2019m writing a book.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“You know the Fuel Office won\u2019t even let us have the little bit that\u2019s due to us each week\u2014not unless we can say definitely that we haven\u2019t got any other means of cooking.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cI suppose there was once heaps of coke and coal for everybody?\u201d said Julia with the interest of one hearing about an unknown country. <\/p>\n

\u201cYes, and cheap, too.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cAnd anyone could go and buy as much as they wanted, without filling in anything, and there wasn\u2019t any shortage? There was lots of it there?\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cAll kinds and qualities\u2014and not all stones and slates like what we get nowadays.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cIt must have been a wonderful world,\u201d said Julia, with awe in her voice.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Characters<\/strong>: Miss Marple, Letitia Blacklock, Dora Bunny Bunner, Phillipa Haymes, Patrick Simmons, Julia Simmons, Colonel Archie Esterbrook, Mrs. Laura Easterbrook, Mrs. Finch, Mitzi, Chief Constable George Rydesdale, Inspector Dermot Craddock, Constable Legg, Sergeant Fletcher, Sir Henry Clithering, Mrs. Swettenham, Hinch Miss Hinchcliffe, Miss Amy Murgatroyd, Myrna Harris, Chief Constable George Rydesdale, Belle Goedler, Rudi Scherz, Rev Julian Harmon, Bunch Mrs. Diana Harmon, Mrs. Huggins, Mrs. Lucas, Randall Goedler, Belle Goedler, Sonia Goedler Stamfordis, Mrs. Butt<\/p>\n

Publisher: William Morrow<\/p>\n

Rating: 9\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Murder Is Announced (1950) Agatha Christie (Miss Marple, #5) \u201cI do wish you wouldn\u2019t read that horrid paper, Edmund. Mrs. Finch doesn\u2019t like it at all.\u201d \u201cI don\u2019t see what my political views have to do with Mrs. Finch.\u201d \u201cAnd it isn\u2019t,\u201d pursued Mrs. Swettenham, \u201cas though you were a worker. You don\u2019t do […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,30,668,190,292,33,8,41],"tags":[228,229,693],"class_list":["post-24631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-10","category-british","category-comfort-read","category-cozy","category-ebook","category-historical","category-mystery","category-reread","tag-agatha-christie","tag-miss-marple","tag-older-protagonist"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-6ph","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24681,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/24681","url_meta":{"origin":24631,"position":0},"title":"4:50 from Paddington","author":"Michelle","date":"June 25, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"4:50 from Paddington (1957) Agatha Christie (Miss Marple, #8) \u201cYou\u2019re getting deaf, Jane.\u201d \u201cJust a little, perhaps. 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