The Murder at the Vicarage
Dust-jacket illustration of the first UK edition | |
| Author | Agatha Christie |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Crime novel |
| Publisher | Collins Crime Club |
Publication date | October 1930 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Pages | 256 (first edition, hardcover) |
| Preceded by | Giant's Bread |
| Followed by | The Sittaford Mystery (publication) The Body in the Library (series) |
The Murder at the Vicarage is a work of detective fiction by the British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in October 1930 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year. The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence and the US edition at $2.00.
It is the first novel to feature the character of Miss Marple and her village of St Mary Mead. The character had previously appeared in short stories published in magazines, from December 1927. These earlier stories were collected in book form in The Thirteen Problems in 1932.