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| Sleeping Murder (Miss Marple Mysteries) | 
| Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: Signet
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  29 reviews
Sales Rank: 140840
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 4.2 x 0.7
ISBN: 0451200195
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.912
EAN: 9780451200198
ASIN: 0451200195
Publication Date: May 1, 2000
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| Customer Reviews:
Waking the Past November 4, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Agatha Christie is well deserving of the title, the First Lady of Mystery. "Sleeping Murder", which is Miss Marple's last case, further enhances the rare distinction placed upon its author. It is a fast-paced exhilarating mystery that digs deep into the past to uncover a ghost that at least one person did not want uncovered.
When Gwenda Reed arrives in England, as a newlywed separated from her husband, her task is to search for the perfect house along the southern coast. Before too long, she finds exactly the right place that soon feels a little too much like home. When some strange coincidences leave Gwenda feeling as if she were going crazy, she discovers that she actually lived in the house when she was a very little girl, and was an eyewitness to a grizzly murder that no one seems to know anything about. Against better judgment, she and her husband Giles take it upon themselves to dig up the past to discover if Gwenda's father was at fault, and if Gwenda actually witnessed a murder, or just dreamed it up.
The title "Sleeping Murder" refers to a murder in retrospect, or a murder that seems to be dead but was merely sleeping. With Miss Marple on hand with ready help and suggestions, the Reeds soon uncover the truth, but with many a twist and turn along the way. "Sleeping Murder" has all of the elements that make Christie's mysteries such a marvel to read, even if the conclusion comes a bit quickly after an elaborate buildup.
Agatha Christie, one of the best as always August 20, 2007
really scary. In some ways a refreshing break from the usual formulaic mystery. Very creepy. Great.
Great Agatha Christie Book! June 13, 2007
This is a typical Agatha Christie book - a combination of mystery & suspense, along with the "I-can't-put-this-book-down" feeling.
I recommend this book to all Agatha Christie fans!
Sleeping Murder December 14, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Are you in for a first-class mystery? Well then Agatha Christie's 296 page long Sleeping Murder is just the book for you. It's a real page turner and has something new for you around every corner.
Gwenda and Giles Reed are a couple of newly weds buying a house. After being in the house for a while, Gwenda gets an eerie feeling that she had been in the house when someone was murdered there more than 20 years ago. Yet she doesn't even remember living in or seeing the house before ever in her life.
The mystery starts getting intense when Miss Marple is introduced into the story. Miss Marple, 90 year old aunt of Giles, an experienced detective who always gets to the bottom of things with her sharp skills.
This book is great for all mystery lovers ages 11 and up. I really enjoyed this book because of the suspense and the way Agatha Christie presented all the clues. For example:" He could probably imitateHelen's handwriting pretty well- but it would'nt fool an expert. So the sample of Helen's handwriting he sent with you with the letter was'ny her handwrting either. He wrote it himself,so naturally it tallied out."
Thie book will also make you think deeper,for those of you out there who love to think. It will make your head go for a spin! Sleeping Murder is a book that you will never put down, so follow Gwenda, Giles and Ms. Marple to solve the mystery!
I much prefer Miss Marple to M. Poirot November 26, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This was the first Agatha Chrystie book I read. I bought it because of the cover. It remains for me as one of the more readable and easiest to reread mysteries by the author. My AC favorite is Destination: Unknown.
I never did take to other popular English murder mystery writers. I liked Agatha Chrystie because her books were about murder being unforgivable and that influenced me as it was from her books that my first thoughts on murder came. I quite dislike all the media products these days that "thrill" the consumers with murders and where "inventiveness" is used to describe ever more sadistic and frankly, mediocre expressions of nastiness.
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