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Chargement... La Dernière énigme (1976)par Agatha Christie
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Miss Marple's Last Case? Review of the William Morrow Paperbacks edition (August 23, 2022) of the Collins Crime Club (UK) hardcover (October 1, 1976) & the Dodd, Mead & Company (US) hardcover (late 1976) originals. "After eighteen years, you and Giles come along, asking questions, burrowing into the past, disturbing a murder that had seemed dead but was only sleeping … Murder in retrospect … A horribly dangerous thing to do, my dears. I have been sadly worried." Sleeping Murder has Miss Marple helping Gwenda and Giles Reed, newlyweds who have moved into a new home in England after living abroad. Gwenda begins to have déjà vu feelings in the house as if she had witnessed a murder there. She also has memories of various doors and structures in the house. It gradually dawns on her that she had lived in the house in her childhood and that the murder recollection must be real. She and her husband set out on a dangerous course to uncover the murderer after many years. See cover at https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/36/Sleeping_Murder_First_Edition_Cov... The front cover of the original 1976 Collins Crime Club (UK) hardcover edition. Image sourced from Wikipedia. On the Berengaria Ease of Solving Scale® I found Sleeping Murder to be on the high end i.e. an 8 or so. There were too many suspects and possible motives. You could perhaps make the leap to the solution by asking yourself "who is the unlikeliest of the characters to be the murderer?" Confusion for Completists Although it was the final published Miss Marple novel in 1976, Sleeping Murder is actually estimated to have been written between the years 1940-1944. You can read that background in the Wikipedia article linked above. It was followed in 1979 by a further posthumous collection in the UK Miss Marple's 6 Final Cases and 2 Other Stories, although those short stories had appeared earlier in the U.S. Trivia and Links Sleeping Murder was adapted twice for English language television series. The 1987 BBC version is faithful to the original. The 2006 ITV version adds new characters and subplots to the story. I did not find any free trailers or postings of either of them, but they are both available on the Britbox streaming service here in Canada. The first TV adaptation was as part of the BBC's Miss Marple (1984-1992) series as Episode 6 in 2 parts in 1987, which starred Joan Hickson as Miss Marple. The second TV adaptation was as part of ITV's Agatha Christie’s Marple (2004-2013) reboot series as Season 2 Episode 1 in 2006 which starred Geraldine McEwan as Miss Marple. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Appartient à la sérieMiss Marple (12) Appartient à la série éditorialeEst contenu dansMiss Marple's Last Case: Sleeping Murder; Miss Marple's First Case: Murder at the Vicarage par Agatha Christie Murder by the Box: "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd", "Murder in the Mews", "Sleeping Murder", "A Murder is Announced" No. 2: Four Classic Murder Mysteries par Agatha Christie Miss Marple Novels: The Murder at the Vicarage / The Body in the Library / A Pocket Full of Rye / Sleeping Murder par Agatha Christie Agatha Christie Crime Collection: Poirot's Early Cases / Sleeping Murder / Elephants Can Remember par Agatha Christie Fait l'objet d'une adaptation dansA inspiréDistinctionsListes notables
Lorsque Gwenda avait vu la villa, elle n'avait pas h sit une seconde. C' tait exactement ce qu'elle cherchait. D mod e peut- tre, mais charmante...Gwenda s'y tait sentie chez elle d s le premier instant. Pour un peu, cette maison aurait pu tre celle de son enfance: chaque pi ce lui voquait des souvenirs confus... Son imagination lui jouait des tours, bien s r. Comment pouvait-elle reconna tre cet endroit puisqu'elle n'avait jamais mis les pieds en Angleterre auparavant ? Pourtant, tout lui tait familier...Pourquoi s' tait-elle sentie glac e de terreur en regardant dans le hall, du haut de l'escalier ? Pourquoi ? La villa tait-elle hant e ? Ou bien Gwenda devenait-elle folle ? Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Despite the advice not to investigate Gwenda and her husband decide try to work out what Gwenda's vague memories of the house she has recently bought actually mean.
I particularly liked the description of Miss Marple.
Miss Marple was an attractive old lady, tall and thin, with pink cheeks and blue eyes, and a gentle, rather fussy manner. Her blue eyes often had a little twinkle in them.
There are no signs that this was actually written during World War II and stored for later publication. Certainly no signs that it was meant to be Miss Marple's last case. ( )