![]() The next day, Protheroe is found murdered with a bullet in the head in the vicarage at 6.40… Enjoy free online English audiobook “Murder at the Vicarage”, a breathtaking novel by Agatha Christie. The housemaid, Mary, also hates Protheroe after he takes great pleasure in sending her boyfriend to prison on charges of poaching. ![]() They each describe how they would kill the much-despised Colonel Protheroe all except Miss Marple, that is. In the evening, Miss Marple joins Anne, Lawrence, the vicar Leonard Clement, the vicar’s wife, Griselda, their nephew, Dennis, and the curate Hawes at the vicar’s house for dinner. Miss Marple agrees to have lunch with Protheroe’s unhappy wife, Anne. Mary Mead gather after church to gossip about numerous things, including the possible indiscretions of Protheroe’s daughter, Lettice, who, apparently, is shacking up with artist Lawrence Redding, and a missing one-pound note from the collection jar. Murder at the Vicarage concerns the murder of Colonel Lucius Protheroe, a man so despised that multiple people confess to the crime after the fact. A magisterial,sly depiction of village England narrated by the curate but paced by the interventions of Miss Marple.The humo(u)r ,the narrative skill on display really opened my eyes to Christie's artistry.Much more than just a guilty pleasure. Before marrying and starting a family in London, she had served in a Devon hospital during the First World War. Murder at the Vicarage is a hugely entertaining novel.It is laugh-out-loud funny to boot. Christie was born into a wealthy upper-middle-class family in Torquay, Devon. ![]() ![]() ![]() She is known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around her fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan was an English writer. ![]()
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