Theoretically, we can guess who the murderer is at the same time as Miss Marple, but obviously that did not happen for me. Miss Marple gets her facts because she knows everything that goes around in the village and the reader gets their facts as the investigators talk to various people. The investigation may seem rather ineffectual, since no one in the investigating party gets close to the root of the case, but it does work as a way to make the case fair play for the reader. Despite her keen eye for the worst of human nature, Miss Marple is dismissed as an old gossip by the police and isn’t really included in anything.
Since this is set in St Mary Mead, Miss Marple appears throughout the story, although more as a side character than as someone who’s taking an active part in the investigations.
Everyone quickly finds out that Colonel’s Protheroe’s wife is having an affair with someone in the village and the investigation gets more and more confusing until Miss Marple puts in a few words. The tale of told through the viewpoint of the vicar, who finds one of his more annoying parishioners (Colonel Protheroe) dead in his study. The Murder at the Vicarage is the first Miss Marple mystery and since I’m more of a Poirot fan, this is actually the first time I’m reading this. Selah at A Bibliophile Style continues to host the Year with Christie readalongs on Instagram! This year, the frequency of the book discussions have dropped to quarterly, which works for me because I forgot about this until two or three weeks before the discussion (which is taking place today).
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