Book #219 of 2017:
The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie (Miss Marple #1)
The first Miss Marple mystery is as fun as it is implausible, requiring readers to suspend our disbelief enough to accept both that a criminal could be as devious as the denouement reveals and that a town gossip could be cunning enough to see through it all to the truth. But if you can make that leap, there’s great joy to be found in the various prickly residents of St. Mary Mead, who will hereafter be plagued by crime after crime for Miss Marple to solve. Her first outing keeps her largely on the outskirts of the action, but she’s already thinking circles around the police and other characters.
★★★☆☆
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