The Murder at the Vicarage

In the seemingly peaceful village of St. Mary Mead, everyone knows everyoneand everyone is watching. When Colonel Protheroe is found murdered in the Vicars study, the villages orderly routines fracture, revealing long-simmering resentments and carefully hidden truths. Told through the wry, fallible voice of the vicar and sharpened by the unobtrusive brilliance of Miss Jane Marple, the investigation unfolds as a study in human nature as much as a puzzle of clues. Appearances deceive, motives multiply, and justice arrives from the least expected direction.This illustrated edition deepens Christies classic mystery through artwork that enhances setting, tone, and tensioninviting readers not just to solve the crime, but to inhabit the world that produced it.