The Body in the Library

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Pull quotes

• The corpse must shock not only because it is a corpse but also because it is shockingly out of place.
• Christie nails this requirement with demonstrable ease and finesse.
• Dolly only calls upon one sleuth, her friend Jane Marple. Initially, Dolly invites her friend to investigate as part of the fun.

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Pull quotes

• The story in The Body in the Library moves at a good pace and you can finish it in a few hours.
• As with the other Christie novels I've read, the story moves at a good pace.
• You can finish it in a few hours.

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Pull quotes

• The story in The Body in the Library moves at a good pace and you can finish it in a few hours.
• Miss Marple has put her facts together and pieces together the crime while the police are still shaking their heads.
• In a village as small as St Mary Mead, gossip spreads like wildfire, and Dolly fears that people would start to believe that her husband murdered the woman himself.