This article is about a novel. For the film, see The Body in the Library (film).
The Body in the Library
Dust-jacket illustration of the US (true first) edition. See Publication history (below) for UK first edition jacket image.
Author
Agatha Christie
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Genre
Crime novel
Publisher
Dodd, Mead and Company
Publication date
February 1942
Media type
Print (hardback & paperback)
Pages
245 (first edition, hardcover)
Preceded by
N or M?
Followed by
Five Little Pigs
The Body in the Library is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in February 1942[1] and in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in May of the same year.[2] The US edition retailed at $2.00[1] and the UK edition at seven shillings and sixpence.[2] The novel features her fictional amateur detective Miss Marple.
The novel concerns the murders of two girls of outwardly similar appearance. One of them was an 18-year-old dancer, and the other was a 16-year-old Girl Guide with aspirations to an acting career. The identities of the two victims were deliberately left ambiguous by the killers. Jane Marple eventually discovers that the dancer was the intended adoptive daughter and heiress to a wealthy man. She starts suspecting the other potential heirs to the old man's fortune.
While the prologue is set at St Mary Mead (the setting of the previous Marple novels), the novel's main setting is a seaside resort hotel. Robert Barnard praised the novel for its relative realism, comparing it with the lack of realism in a similar novel by P.D. James.
^ abMarcum, J S (May 2007). "American Tribute to Agatha Christie: The Classic Years: 1940 – 1944". Retrieved 3 January 2020.
^ abPeers, Chris; Spurrier, Ralph; Sturgeon, Jamie (March 1999). Collins Crime Club – A checklist of First Editions (second ed.). Dragonby Press. p. 15.
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