Juliet Stevenson reads Agatha ChristieтАЩs The Thirteen Problems, the series of linked short stories that introduced readers to the Tuesday Night Club and to the woman who would become the worldтАЩs most popular female detective, Miss Jane Marple.
A weekly dinner party Ten amateur sleuths The Tuesday Night Club murdersOn a quiet Tuesday in St Mary Mead, a group of friends gather for dinner.
A policeman, a clergyman, a solicitor, an author, an artist, and an unassuming lady with a shrewd gaze тАУ Miss Jane Marple. Conversation naturally turns to crime.
Each recounts a seemingly unsolvable mystery. Each thinks they know the answer.
But itтАЩs the one they least expect who understands the true nature of each wicked act...
Never underestimate Miss Marple
тАШBillions of readers canтАЩt be wrong.тАЩ
Dreda Say Mitchell
тАШThe plots are so good that one marvels . . . most of them would have made a full-length thriller.тАЩ
Daily Mirror
Agatha Christie was born in Torquay in 1890 and became, quite simply, the best-selling novelist in history. Her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, written towards the end of the First World War, introduced us to Hercule Poirot, who was to become the most popular detective in crime fiction since Sherlock Holmes. She is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and another billion in over 100 foreign languages. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 19 plays, and six novels under the name of Mary Westmacott.