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Encyclopedia > The Body in the Library

The Body in the Library (published in 1942) is an Agatha Christie mystery novel featuring the elderly detective Miss Marple. This article is about the year. ... Agatha Christie Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, DBE (September 15, 1890–January 12, 1976), was a British crime fiction writer. ... Detective fiction is a branch of crime fiction that centres upon the investigation of a crime, usually murder, by a detective, either professional or amateur. ... A detective is an officer of the police who performs criminal or administrative investigations, in some police departments, the lowest rank among such investigators (above the lowest rank of officers and below sergeants), a civilian licensed to investigate information not readily available in public records (a private investigator, also called... Joan Hickson as Miss Marple Jane Marple, usually known as Miss Marple, is a fictional character appearing in many Agatha Christie novels. ...


Plot

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On a quiet morning in St. Mary Mead, the Bantry family wake to find a young woman dead in their library. Later, another dead girl's remains are discovered in a nearby quarry. Worried that gossip will leak out, the Bantry family invite Miss Marple to investigate. St. ...


Film versions

An adaptation was made for television in 1985. 1985 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...



Agatha Christie
Detectives
Hercule Poirot | Miss Marple | Tommy and Tuppence | Ariadne Oliver | Arthur Hastings | Chief Inspector Japp
Novels
The Mysterious Affair at Styles | The Secret Adversary | Murder on the Links | The Man in the Brown Suit | The Secret of Chimneys | The Murder of Roger Ackroyd | The Big Four | The Mystery of the Blue Train | The Seven Dials Mystery | The Murder at the Vicarage | The Sittaford Mystery | Peril at End House | Lord Edgware Dies | Murder on the Orient Express | Three Act Tragedy | Why Didn't They Ask Evans? | Death in the Clouds | The A.B.C. Murders | Murder in Mesopotamia | Cards on the Table | Death on the Nile | Dumb Witness | Appointment with Death | And Then There Were None | Murder is Easy | Hercule Poirot's Christmas | Sad Cypress | Evil Under the Sun | N or M? | One, Two, Buckle My Shoe | The Body in the Library | Five Little Pigs | The Moving Finger | Towards Zero | Sparkling Cyanide | Death Comes as the End | The Hollow | Taken at the Flood | Crooked House | A Murder is Announced | They Came to Baghdad | Mrs McGinty's Dead | They Do It with Mirrors | A Pocket Full of Rye | After the Funeral | Hickory Dickory Dock | Destination Unknown | Dead Man's Folly | 4.50 From Paddington | Ordeal by Innocence | Cat Among the Pigeons | The Pale Horse | The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side | The Clocks | A Carribbean Mystery | At Bertram's Hotel | Third Girl | Endless Night | By the Pricking of My Thumbs | Hallowe'en Party | Passenger to Frankfurt | Nemesis | Elephants Can Remember | Postern of Fate | Sleeping Murder | Curtain
Short story collections
Poirot Investigates | Partners in Crime | The Mysterious Mr. Quin | The Hound of Death | The Thirteen Problems | Parker Pyne Investigates | The Listerdale Mystery | Murder in the Mews | The Regatta Mystery | The Labours of Hercules | Poirot's Early Cases
Plays
Akhnaton | The Mousetrap | Witness for the Prosecution | Verdict | Rule of Three | Fiddlers Three
as Mary Westmacott
Giant's Bread | Unfinished Portrait | The Rose and the Yew Tree | Absent in the Spring | A Daughter's a Daughter | The Burden

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WSU Libraries - Library Faculty Affairs Committee (686 words)
The Study Committee was renamed the Library Faculty Affairs Committee on February 26, 1974, by the assembled library faculty.
The purpose of the Library Faculty Affairs Committee is to provide a representative body of the library faculty to monitor, study, and report on matters of Library or University policy related to library faculty.
LFAC is empowered by the library faculty to call meetings of the library faculty and may appoint other members of the library faculty to aid in its studies.
Literary Encyclopedia: The Body in the Library (1722 words)
Her servant informs her that there is the dead body of a young woman in the library of the house, and Colonel Arthur Bantry goes to check.
The body in the Bantry library was not Ruby, but Pamela Reeves, dressed up in Ruby’s clothes, thinking that she was being taken to a screen test.
She is then drugged, strangled and killed, her body disposed of in Basil Blake’s house, on the hearthrug, in the middle of the night.
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