Agatha Christie's A Murder is Announced
This Miss Marple mystery rules because the police straight up recruit her to help solve the case (and she and the inspector share the denouement scene!). And the case is a doozy, as it involves a newspaper advertisement listing a time and place where a murder will be committed. And of course all the small town neighbors are like, we better check this out. And things spiral from there. Satisfying plotting, even if one reveal in particular is easy to guess, and I love when Miss Marple gets her due. There is a slight whiff of post-war anti-Semitism/xenophobia that I could have done without, but what can you do, rich British post-war people could be assholes. A-/B+.
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