#miss marple

[mysharona1987]

Benedict, now you have to solve a small village murder mystery.

#britain #benedict cumberbatch #Literature #books #agatha christie #reading #sherlock holmes #miss Marple

[kirain]

Sherlock Holmes

Hercule Poirot

Phryne Fisher

Benoit Blanc

Adrian Monk

Nancy Drew

Dick Tracy

Columbo

Miss Marple

#fictional detectives #detectives #old timey #sherlock holmes #hercule poirot #phryne fisher #benoit blanc #knives out #glass onion #adrian monk #nancy drew #dick tracy #columbo #miss marple

[leupagus]

Guys I Might Have Three Nickels

I've been watching "Agatha Christie's Marple" for the past few days and it's pretty good! Marple adaptations all tend to have a better caliber of actors than a lot of bog-standard mystery shows (looking at you, "Madame Blanc"), and while Joan Hickson's Marple is right up there with David Suchet's Poirot and Jeremy Brett's Holmes as "literally can never be beaten, these are the best anyone's done it," both Geraldine McEwan and Julia McKenzie do a fantastic job as Miss Marple.

Then I got to "The Secret of Chimneys," Season 5 episode 2

and guys

Guys

So there's a murder of a viscount, like there is, and this detective Finch rolls up and immediately spots Miss Marple (in her NIGHTIE! standing at the window like some kind of hussy, honestly Jane) and doffs his cap to her with that little smile that makes you go, "huh."

At this point I've watched a couple dozen Miss Marple episodes where she goes through detectives like wildfire and this guy's supposed to be a "*guru*" so I'm expecting some battle of the egos or something and like, Stephen Dillane is great! But bleh, I might have to skip this one.

Then my dude asks Miss Marple to SHOW HIM THE BODY, with a pleased little smile at her as she goes "uhhhhhhhh but my knitting?" (He even does that thing where you use someone's honorific and wait for them to give you their name, and that's when I was like "ohhh this bitch knows exactly who she is.") What follows is what I can only describe as a meet-cute in the secret passageway where the viscount was shot (and in fact the body is STILL THERE) and where Miss Marple literally asks the police equivalent of "is there a Mrs Finch" and he looks at her like this:

At which point I'm like "ohhh my dude not only knows who she is, he deliberately came here without a sergeant so he could draft her," and sure enough he just starts...handing her pieces of evidence like "hey babe can you decipher this note for me thanks love you" while Miss Marple is like, "this approval and camaraderie coming from a cop... not sure if want."

Next is a series of romantic strolls through the gardens while they discuss murder, during which Finch reveals his undying love I mean his research into Miss Marple and the "dozen case files" of her previous exploits that he's collected like some deranged fanboy. Miss Marple responds to this by BLUSHING LIKE A SCHOOLGIRL and stammering about how pish tosh it's nothing really, and I couldn't find a gif of it but he's staring at her like this:

Yeah I bet u r tempted

He also makes a half-hearted attempt at negging her "amateur sleuth" status, only to then immediately assure her that he makes like, so much money being a big fancy detective and can keep her in all the yarn and garden seed she could ever desire.

There's also a late-night tryst at the compost pile right after Finch has been (mildly) poisoned and Miss Marple is like "men are so weak" as she roots through the garbage for clues.

Not how he wanted their first date to go D:

The next morning there's another murder which: bummer, but also allows the two of them to read love letters together and for Finch to give Miss Marple the following look as she explains how secret assignations among lovers can "quicken the ardor":

Miss Marple then goes onto solve the murders and btw hands over the priceless diamond that's been literally missing for two literal decades that she found in her spare time. The entire scene features Finch looking at her like this:

After the dust settles, Finch and Miss Marple have a lovely moment where he calls himself "another one of your casualties," then super casually mentions that he's probably going to have to go on assignment to use the diamond in a daring international espionage case and I can't decide if he's asking Miss Marple to go with him or simply trying to show her that he is cool and smart and would make an excellent wife, but either way the episode ends with her turning him down and Jane, we need to talk about your priorities.

Anyway I've already written 2K about the subsequent 10-year epistolary romance these two have following this episode because I make poor choices.

#agatha christie's marple #miss marple #julia mckenzie #stephen dillane #special thanks to introvertedpedant for their exceptional gifs #anyway yeah I fully did the 'haha what if I jokingly shipped them' and then 30 minutes later was like 'oh no' #miss marple rhymes with parple #seriously though what's the explanation for these choice #other than dillane reading through the script and saying to mckenzie #'ok so I'm gonna play him like SO SO down bad for you is that cool' #and mckenzie saying 'you jump I jump jack'

[beaniegaebie]

i don't really have any solid conclusions about this yet but i noticed A Thing in a rewatch and i haven't found it mentioned elsewhere yet so here we go

(apologies for the appalling image quality you're about to see, i can't screenshot easily rn pls bear with)

OKAY so in the scene where crowley confronts gabriel about "shut up and die", something about the arrangement of book stacks caught my eye a little

the majority of the books are angled so that we mostly just see the page edges and not the spines clearly, EXCEPT for a particularly shiny and familiar colour combo right here-

but nothing too weird going on there, i thought, crowley coloured books in a bookshop so what? right up until i registered crowley's line when we get a closer look-

hhhhmmmmMMmmmm yes yes "everything just the way you wanted" huh, very interesting considering that we know how much thought goes into props huh

and for most of the shots we get of crowley in this position those freaking books are just quietly nestled right there in the corner-

look at that god damn framing i fuckin see you, you glorious bastards

so i paused to see if i could figure out what the hell was up with those fuckers and this is when i absolutely lost my mind, your honour

A and C you say?? in crowley colours???? framed like this?????? localised entirely within your kitchen???

anyway long story short they're two books from an Agatha Christie Crime Collection set (24 volumes, three stories per volume) and guess whats on the mfing front covers I'm-

(its a rant for another post but when paired with this other set of initials spotted in s2 i want to scream actually)

ANYWAY back to the books, through an absolutely unhinged comparison of the formatting of gold text blobs i reckon the two we have here are:

(on top) The Pale Horse; The Big Four, The Secret Adversary

(on bottom) 4:50 From Paddington, Lord Edgeware Dies, Murder in Mesopotamia

(I'm fairly confident but if anyone has a better image to confirm/correct this pls do)

now here is where I'll need a bunch of help from some Christie-heads out there bc I haven't read any of these and I've only seen the tv adaptation of one of them, so i dont know for sure if these are like A Clue, or A Cool Thing, or if I've just fully brainrotted myself into a fun lil corner here? wa-hoo

but here's some initial stuff that jumped out at me after skimming the basics:

(some of) the titles: Pale Horse/Big Four - death's horse ofc, the four horsemen mayb? the them+adam?? ; Mesopotamia is a very biblical choice bbz ; 4:50 From Paddington- azi likes trains i guess? idk that one's tenuous lmao ; honestly no idea with the other two but Secret Adversary feels a tad ominous

iirc Big Four just has kind of an unusual history, it was initially twelve short stories that she later compiled into one, and it was published fairly soon after christie's mysterious disappearance/reappearance

in Big Four, poirot fakes his death at one point and doesnt even let hastings in on it and I'm hoping sure its totally irrelevant to the ineffable bois

part of the Pale Horse story is a group of assassins that basically try to pass off all their murders as being actually caused by like ✨satanic powers✨ which is interesting

christie knew a fUCkton about poisonings thats why she wrote so many into her work and, while i don't believe the poison coffee theory myself, it sure is an interesting link with how cyanide is associated with almond smell/flavour and that metatron chooses almond syrup in particular

(ALSO random side note that is mostly meaningless but I've worked in a good few uk coffee shops and have never worked anywhere that stocks almond syrup; almond milk yes, hazelnut syrup yes, but never almond syrup...? prob just the places i worked though lmao)

EDIT forgotten point: I've seen some speculation that the bently's plate reading "CURTAIN" could be a reference to poirot's last story, along side that alternate scene of crowley ordering the sherry for "miss marple", its just one too many agatha christie references for my melted brain to handle and I'm SUS

so this is where i run out of idea steam and hand it over to you lot because i have no clue what this could mean, if it even means anything other than a cool set feature

is there something here actually or am i yelling into the void just for fun?

who knows, who cares!

#good omens #good omens 2 #good omens spoilers #good omens 2 spoilers #good omens meta #ineffable husbands #ineffable idiots #agatha christie #hercule poirot #miss marple #can't wait to hear y'alls thoughts #SO WHY IS THERE A KNIFE THROUGH THE 'A' HUH #AND WHY IS THE 'C' ON THE CHALKBOARD SO FADED HMMM #GAIMAN EXPLAIN #things that make me go ngkk

[the-jovial-jester]

I swear someone needs to make a film plot where famous detectives all go on vacation to the same place and there’s a murder. Because all the detectives would HATE each other

Poirot and Sherlock are constantly fighting

Nero Wolfe refuses to leave his hotel room and is just bitching about everyone to Archie

asene lupine isn’t even trying to solve the mystery he’s just pissing off sherlock. watson wants to go home

Hastings and Archie are trading stories about there respective employer/friend

sherlock solves it first but Miss Marple actually did she just didn’t say anything because “these young whipper snappers need to work it out themselves”

the whimseys and the Branford’s didn’t even show up because Tuppence and Harriet were trying on hats while Tommy and Peter just kinda sat there

Poirot was busy matchmaking and Sherlock was like ugh that’s disgusting 😒

foyle was the detective they called. He took one look at this shit show and said Sam take me home.

bertie Wooster was a guest too and he was set to marry the murdered ladies daughter but Jeeves tipped off Poirot that the girl was in love with the gardener

jeeves and miss Marple get along wonderfully

no one’s really sure why those two gardening ladies are so nosey.

#sherlock holmes #hercule poirot #agatha christie #nero wolfe #arsene lupin #arthur hastings #john watson #peter whimsy #tommy and tuppence #foyle's war #rosemary and thyme #jeeves and wooster #bertie wooster #reginald jeeves #Miss Marple

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

Hello again, thank you for making me aware of the bonus stuff, I probably wouldn't have noticed. :) Maybe a hard task but I was wondering if you or one of your lovely followers could do a transcript of the "Crowley ordering drinks" blooper? I only get half of it and there are no subtitles ...

Hiya! :) Hello, large Talisker please and a sherry for:

Lady Bracknell

Angela Lansbury

my maiden aunt

the dowager duchess

elderly friend

Miss Marple

the old lady

#good omens #david tennant #michael sheen #crowley #aziraphale #gos2 #season 2 #bts #bloopers #lady bracknell #angela lansbury #my maiden aunt #the dowager duchess #elderly friend #Miss Marple #the old lady #fun fact #2ep2 #dirty donkey #2i2i7 #talisker #sherry

[crazy-queen-winx]

#ace attorney #the great ace attorney #the great mouse detective #poirot #acd sherlock holmes #detective columbo #detective fiction #miss marple #detective pikachu #polls

[xirosh]

#polls #poll #sleuths #detectives #sherlock holmes #hercule poirot #miss marple #philip marlowe #jessica fletcher #columbo #easy rawlins #ezekiel rawlins #ezekiel easy rawlins #jim rockford #adrian monk #monk #dick tracy #1k #technically though its #8k

[poirott]

Crossover → Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple solving cases together, Part 2 (Part 1)

David Suchet as Hercule Poirot, Julia McKenzie as Jane Marple

Agatha Christie's Poirot (1989 - 2013) | Agatha Christie's Marple (2004 - 2013)

#poirot #hercule poirot #miss marple #agatha christie #david suchet #tvedit #perioddramaedit #cinematv #cinemapix #poirotedit #missmarpleedit #*marplot crossover #marplot #*edit #poirot 1x06: triangle at rhodes #poirot 3x05: wasps' nest #poirot 8x02: murder in mesopotamia #marple 4x03: they do it with mirrors #marple 4x02: murder is easy #marple 6x01: a caribbean mystery #marple 6x02: greenshaw's folly #TOO MANY EPISODES TO TAG! :D #just my childhood dream in gif form <3<3

[thebeesareback]

I give Sir Arthur Conan Doyle a lot of shit on this blog for his utterly bizzare choices in the Sherlock Holmes series. It's good to know that his real life was equally chaotic.

An anecdote: when his friend (and fellow crime writer) Agatha Christie disappeared in mysterious circumstances, Conan Doyle decided to take her glove to a psychic, in the hopes that they would locate her. Christie had gone to a spa.

#sherlock holmes #john watson #johnlock #sherlock #watson #superwholock #acd holmes #acd sherlock holmes #sir arthur conan doyle #agatha christie #hercule poirot #miss marple #psychic

[retirement-home-rumble]

Retirement Home Rumble: Round 3

Side A

Why they would crush the other geezers under the cut:

WARNING: There may be spoilers

Witches Propaganda:

Miss Marple Propaganda:

#retirement home rumble #tournament poll #round 3 #terry pratchett #gnu terry pratchett #discworld #discworld witches #nanny ogg #granny weatherwax #agatha christie #miss marple

[vavandeveresfan]

221B Baker Street Christmas!

I'm making my house a Murder Mystery Christmas. My newest acquisition is a Department 56 Literary Classics model of Sherlock Holmes' house, with Sherlock and Watson!

It's all set for the season with garland and wreath, a table full of tiny British Xmas foods, a Christmas tree, and three annoying carolers. Miss Marple, Father Brown, and Hercule Poirot watch over them like Guardian Angels.

Dr. Moriarty left them a plum pudding. I don't think they'll eat it.

A better look at the two.

#Sherlock Holmes #Dr. Watson #221B Baker Street #The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes #Department 56 #Christmas display #Christmas decorations #holiday #holiday decorations #Jeremy Brett #Miss Marple #Father Brown #Hercule Poirot #Poirot #murder mysteries #murder mystery theme #tiny food #miniatures

[pawswithprose]

I think @sumire-no-nikki is right. I really love Agatha Christie

#books #book #bibliophile #bookish #agatha christie #hercule poirot #miss Marple #cosy crime #my book collection #bookworm #reading #Queen of crime #pawswithprose

[leupagus]

For Which The First Was Made, 15/15

Author: leupagus Wordcount: 36K Fandom: Miss Marple Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Characters: Jane Marple, Gabriel Finch, Henry Clithering, Virginia Revel, Eileen “Bundle” Revel, Leonard Clement, Griselda Clement, Dolly Bantry, Raymond West Tags: Epistolary Summary: They say that one should never meet one's heroes. Heroines may be another matter entirely.

Fic complete.

#miss marple #ficcage of intrest #miss marple rhymes with parple #and a voice cried out from Heaven saying #it is done

[queenofthyme]

why I don’t understand those shows with ‘experts’

Sherlock: Your jumper shows sign of significant wear and tear meaning it must be your favourite and yet you didn’t wear it to the victim’s house last night. Why? You knew it was going to get messy from the start. It was cold premeditated murder.

Me: My aunt knit it for me and I don’t have the heart to tell her it’s the ugliest fucking jumper I’ve ever seen. I didn’t wear it last night because I was trying to impress a hot girl.

Sherlock: ...

AND

Miss Marple: If you walked straight home from work this afternoon, why do you have fresh mud on your shoes?

Me: Because-

Miss Marple: Because you didn’t go straight home. You took a shortcut through the graveyard to the victim’s house where you murdered him in cold blood before-

Me: Actually, I saw a puddle in someone’s garden and I couldn’t resist jumping in it.

Miss Marple: ...

ALSO SEE...

Mentalist: The number you’re thinking of is 32,684

Me: No, it’s 10,000.

Mentalist: You’re lying. I’ve been feeding you clues through your subconscious the entire time so you’d pick the number 32,684.

Me: Oh, yeah, I got distracted by something you said about bees earlier so instead of paying attention I’ve been constructing an elaborate daydream in my head about what kind of cliques would exist at an all-bee high school for the majority of your performance. Also I murdered the audience member next to me.

Mentalist: ...

#please add ur own experts #Sherlock #miss marple #mentalist #queenofthyme #this has been sitting in my drafts for OVER 5 YEARS #set it free

[thefeaturesof]

Agatha Christie Books in Order.

Hercule Poirot Books

Hercule Poirot Collections

Miss Marple Books

Miss Marple Collections

Tommy and Tuppence Books

Tommy and Tuppence Collections

Superintendent Battle Books

Standalone Novels

Short Story Collections

Non-Fiction Books

Agatha Christie Hercule Poirot books in order

Here are the names of Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot books in order. It will help you start with your reading while ensuring the best experience.

The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)    

The Murder on the Links (1923)     

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926)      

The Big Four (1927)    

The Mystery of the Blue Train (1928)     

Peril at End House (1932)     

Lord Edgware Dies (1933)    

Murder on the Orient Express (1934)      

Three Act Tragedy (1935)    

Death in the Clouds (1935)   

The A.B.C. Murders (1936)   

Murder in Mesopotamia (1936)      

Cards on the Table (1936)    

Dumb Witness (1937)  

Death on the Nile (1937)      

Appointment with Death (1938)    

Hercule Poirot’s Christmas (1938)  

One, Two, Buckle My Shoe (1940)

Sad Cypress (1940)     

Evil Under the Sun (1941)    

Five Little Pigs (1942)  

The Hollow (1946)      

Taken at the Flood (1948)    

Mrs. McGinty’s Dead (1952)  

After the Funeral (1953)      

Hickory Dickory Dock (1955)

Dead Man’s Folly (1956)       

Cat Among the Pigeons (1959)      

The Clocks (1963)       

Third Girl (1966)

Hallowe’en Party (1969)       

Elephants Can Remember (1972)  

Curtain (1975)      

The Monogram Murders (2014)

Agatha Christie Hercule Poirot Collections in Order

Poirot Investigates (1924)    

Murder in the Mews (1937)

The Labours of Hercules (1947)

Poirot’s Early Cases (1974)

Agatha Christie Miss Marple Books in Order

Here is the list of Agatha Christie’s books in order based on their publication date.

The Murder at the Vicarage (1930)

The Body in the Library (1942)      

The Moving Finger (1942)    

A Murder is Announced (1950)      

They Do It with Mirrors (1952)      

A Pocket Full of Rye (1953)  

4:50 From Paddington (1957)       

The Mirror Crack’d (1962)    

A Caribbean Mystery (1964)

At Bertram’s Hotel (1965)    

Nemesis (1971) 

Sleeping Murder (1976)

Agatha Christie Miss Marple Collection in Order

The Thirteen Problems (1932)       

Miss Marple’s Final Cases (1979)

Agatha Christie’s Tommy and Tuppence Books in Order

Here’s the list of Agatha Christie Tommy and Tuppence Books in Order

The Secret Adversary (1922)

N or M? (1941)  

By the Pricking of My Thumbs (1968)     

Postern of Fate (1973)

Agatha Christie’s Tommy and Tuppence Collections in Order

Partners in Crime (1929)

Agatha Christie’s Superintendent Battle Books in Order

Here’s the list of Agatha Christie Superintendent Battle Books in Order

The Secret of Chimneys (1925)      

The Seven Dials Mystery (1929)   

Cards on the Table (1936)    

Murder is Easy (1939)

Towards Zero (1944)

Agatha Christie’s Standalone Novels in Order

Here’s the list of Agatha Christie Standalone Novels in Order

The Man in the Brown Suit (1924)  

Giant’s Bread (1930)   

The Sittaford Mystery (1931)

Unfinished Portrait (1934)    

Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? (1934)       

And Then There Were None (1939)

Absent in the Spring (1944)  

Death Comes as the End (1944)    

Sparkling Cyanide (1945)     

The Rose and the Yew Tree (1948)

Crooked House (1949)

They Came to Baghdad (1951)      

A Daughter’s a Daughter (1952)    

Destination Unknown (1954)

The Burden (1956)      

Ordeal by Innocence (1958)

The Pale Horse (1961)

Endless Night (1967)   

13 at Dinner (1969)    

Passenger to Frankfurt (1970)       

The Murder at Hazelmoor (1984)

Agatha Christie’s Short Story Collections in Order

Here’s the list of Agatha Christie Short Story Collections in Order

The Mysterious Mr. Quin (1930)    

The Hound of Death (1933)  

The Listerdale Mystery (1934)       

Parker Pyne Investigates (1934)    

The Regetta Mystery and Other Stories (1939)

The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories (1948)  

Three Blind Mice and Other Stories (1950)      

The Under Dog and Other Stories (1951)

The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding (1960)       

Double Sin and Other Stories (1961)      

Star Over Bethlehem and Other Stories (1965)

The Golden Ball and Other Stories (1974)

The problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories (1991)    

The Harlequin Tea Set (1997)       

While the Light Lasts and Other Stories (1997)

Agatha Christie’s Non-Fiction Books in Order

Here’s the list of Agatha Christie Non-Fiction Books in Order

Come, Tell Me How You Live (1946)       

Agatha Christie: An Autobiography (1977)

Top 10 Agatha Christie Books to Read

Given the number of books in the Agatha Christie series, readers generally hesitate to begin. Further, to understand the series well, one needs to read Agatha Christie’s novels in order. To ease things, the readers generally look for the best novels or books to read them directly and avoid all the hassle. So here are the top 10 Agatha Christie novels that will offer you the best mystery story reading experience.

#agatha christie #poirot #hercule poirot #miss marple #tommy and tuppence #superintendent battle #literature #english literature #books #classics #crime novles #1920s #1930s #1940s #1950s #1960s #1970s #vintage