Just finished "Miss Marple's Final Cases", by Agatha Christie, originally published in 1979. This is a posthumously-published collection of six "Miss Marple" short stories, together with two other non-Marple stories. The title is rather misleading: these are not Miss Marple's "final" cases at all, but are simply a reprint of stories which had originally been published in magazines, many years earlier.
One of the stories which is presented here as a Miss Marple short story, "The Case of the Caretaker", was subsequently greatly expanded (with the same plot, but different character names) as the standalone novel "Endless Night".
Very enjoyable, and thoroughly recommended.
Last edited by HarryT; 11-18-2014 at 05:06 AM.
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