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Mrs McGinty's Dead is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in February 1952 [1] and in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 3 March the same year. [2] The US edition retailed at $2.50 [1] and the UK edition at nine shillings and sixpence (9/6). [2]
Mrs McGinty's Dead The Under Dog and Other Stories is a short story collection written by Agatha Christie and first published in the United States in 1951, Dodd Mead and Company. The title story was published in booklet form along with Blackman's Wood (by E. Phillips Oppenheim) in the United Kingdom in 1929 by The Reader's Library. [ 1 ]
Mrs McGinty's Dead (1952) also published as Blood Will Tell; After the Funeral (1953) also published as Funerals are Fatal; Hickory Dickory Dock (1955) also published as Hickory Dickory Death; Dead Man's Folly (1956) Cat Among the Pigeons (1959) The Clocks (1963) Third Girl (1966) Hallowe'en Party (1969) Elephants Can Remember (1972) Poirot's ...
Mrs McGinty's Dead (1952) Dead Man's Folly (1956) The Pale Horse (1961) – Oliver's only appearance in a Christie novel without Poirot; Third Girl (1966) Hallowe'en Party (1969) Elephants Can Remember (1972) Hercule Poirot and the Greenshore Folly (2014) – a novella that was later expanded and published as Dead Man's Folly.
Murder Most Foul is the third of four Miss Marple films made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. [1] Loosely based on the 1952 novel Mrs McGinty's Dead by Agatha Christie, it stars Margaret Rutherford as Miss Jane Marple, Ron Moody as the theatre company director H. Driffold Cosgood, Charles Tingwell as Inspector Craddock, and Stringer Davis (Rutherford's husband) as Mr Stringer. [2]
When someone attempts to enter Julia's room during the night, she quickly flees the school to tell her story to Hercule Poirot, whom she has heard stories about from her Aunt Maureen (Mrs. Summerhayes from Mrs. McGinty's Dead). While Poirot is at Meadowbank investigating the murders, Miss Blanche is murdered with a sandbag.
Superintendent Spence brought to Poirot the case solved in Mrs McGinty's Dead, which they discuss in Chapter 5. The case is recollected by Poirot in Chapter 3 when Poirot recalls Mrs Oliver getting out of a car and "a bag of apples breaking". This is a reference to her second appearance in Mrs McGinty's Dead, Chapter 10.
The book introduces the characters of Tommy and Tuppence who feature in three other Christie novels and one collection of short stories; the five Tommy and Tuppence books span Agatha Christie's writing career. They are hired for a job that leads them both to many dangerous situations, meeting allies as well, including an American millionaire in ...