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Miss Marple — Books timeline
when each title takes placeThe early cases
the late 1920s and early 1930s, in St. Mary Mead
The Thirteen ProblemsThe first stories: around the table, friends tell crimes and the elderly aunt solves every one
1930, in St. Mary Mead
The Murder at the VicarageMiss Marple's first novel: the most hated man in the village turns up dead at the vicarage
the early 1940s, in St. Mary Mead and Danemouth
The Body in the LibraryA stranger in an evening dress is found dead in the library of a friend of Miss Marple's
the early 1940s, in Lymstock
The Moving FingerPoison-pen letters spread panic through a small town until someone dies
the 1930s to the 1950s, in and around St. Mary Mead
Miss Marple's Final CasesSix short Miss Marple cases, plus two supernatural tales
The 1950s
1950, in Chipping Cleghorn
A Murder Is AnnouncedA newspaper ad sets a time and place for a murder, and the whole village shows up to watch
the early 1950s, at Stonygates
They Do It with MirrorsMiss Marple visits a mansion turned home for young delinquents and sees a murder staged like a magic trick
1953, outside London
A Pocket Full of RyeA tycoon poisoned with rye in his pocket: the murders follow a nursery rhyme
the late 1950s, near Brackhampton
4.50 from PaddingtonMiss Marple's friend sees a strangling through the window of another train, and nobody believes her
the early 1960s, in St. Mary Mead
The Mirror Crack'd from Side to SideA Hollywood star buys the village manor, and a fan dies at the welcome party
The late cases
the 1960s, on the island of St. Honoré
A Caribbean MysteryOn vacation in the Caribbean, a tiresome major dies right after promising to show her a killer's photo
the mid-1960s, in London
At Bertram's HotelA London hotel too perfect to be true, a canon who goes missing and a train robbery
the early 1970s, on a coach tour of England
NemesisA dead millionaire leaves Miss Marple a legacy and an old crime to solve
the 1940s, in Dillmouth, with a murder from almost 20 years earlier
Sleeping MurderA young woman buys a house and remembers a murder she saw there as a child
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