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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 ...
1976, Pocket Books (New York), 8th printing, February, 1976, Paperback, xi, 210 pp In the UK the novel was first serialised in the weekly magazine John Bull in six abridged instalments from 26 September (Volume 106, Number 2771) to 31 October 1959 (Volume 106, Number 2776) with illustrations by Gerry Fancett. [ 6 ]
For instance, in Mrs McGinty's Dead, Mrs Oliver talks of having made the blowpipe a foot long (30 cm) in one of her novels, whereas the actual length is something like four-and-a-half feet (1 + 1 ⁄ 2 yards (140 cm)) – the same mistake Christie made in Death in the Clouds.
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... The character of Jane Marple in the first Miss Marple book, ... based on the 1952 Poirot novel Mrs McGinty's Dead.
Three Blind Mice and Other Stories is a collection of short stories written by Agatha Christie, first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1950. [1] The first edition retailed at $2.50.
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]