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Miss Marple (Agatha Christie)

edited 2026-06-19

A complete reading and viewing order for Agatha Christie's Miss Marple — all 12 novels and 2 short-story collections (1930–1979), plus three separate screen continuities: the Margaret Rutherford MGM films, the BBC Joan Hickson adaptations, and ITV's Agatha Christie's Marple (Geraldine McEwan and Julia McKenzie). Sections cover each continuity separately so you can follow the Christie canon, one faithful adaptation line, or the full cross-media picture.

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01NOVEL
1930Agatha Christie's 1930 debut Miss Marple novel, in which the Vicar of St Mary Mead, Leonard Clement, narrates the discovery of a body in his…
256 pp
02NOVEL
1942Christie's 1942 Miss Marple novel, in which the body of an unidentified young woman in glamorous evening dress is found in the library of Go…
245 pp
03NOVEL
1943Christie's 1943 Marple novel, narrated by Jerry Burton, a pilot convalescing in the quiet village of Lymstock with his sister. The village i…
229 pp
04NOVEL
1950Christie's 1950 Marple novel, widely considered one of her finest. The local paper in the village of Chipping Cleghorn carries an unusual no…
256 pp
05NOVEL
1952Christie's 1952 Marple novel (published in the US as Murder with Mirrors). Miss Marple visits her old friend Ruth Van Rydock, who is worried…
187 pp
06NOVEL
1953Christie's 1953 Marple novel, structured around the nursery rhyme 'Sing a Song of Sixpence'. Rex Fortescue, a wealthy City businessman, is p…
192 pp
07NOVEL
1957Christie's 1957 Marple novel (published in the US as What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw!). Elspeth McGillicuddy, travelling by train, witnesses a ma…
256 pp
08NOVEL
1962Christie's 1962 Marple novel (published in the US as The Mirror Crack'd). Set in an expanded, partially built-over St Mary Mead, the story b…
256 pp
09NOVEL
1964Christie's 1964 Marple novel, set on the fictional Caribbean island of St Honoré where Marple's nephew Raymond has sent her to recuperate. A…
256 pp
10NOVEL
1965Christie's 1965 Marple novel, set in a Mayfair hotel that appears to preserve perfect Edwardian gentility. Miss Marple, staying there as a t…
256 pp
11NOVEL
1971Christie's 1971 Marple novel and the sequel to A Caribbean Mystery. Miss Marple receives a posthumous letter from the late Mr Rafiel, the mi…
256 pp
12NOVEL
1976Christie's 1976 final Miss Marple novel, published posthumously after Christie's death earlier that year. Written during the early 1940s and…
224 pp