A Murder Is Announced audiobook

A Murder is Announced (Miss Marple #5), first published in the UK by the Collins Crim Club in June 1950.Characters: Miss Jane Marple, the Inspector and vicar's wife Bunch, Swiss hotel clerk Rudi, Miss Letitia Blackstone houses scatty Dora, Cousins Julia and Patrick, gardener widow Phillipa, and paranoid cook Mitzi.Abstract: Villagers expect a fun game after a Gazette announcement of murder, but when lights flash off, shots ring out, and a masked burglar falls dead, the Inspector and vicar's wife Bunch call in expert Miss Jane Marple. Was Swiss hotel clerk Rudi framed? Miss Letitia Blackstone houses scatty Dora, cousins Julia and Patrick, gardener widow Phillipa, and paranoid cook Mitzi.عنوانهاس چاپ شده در ایران: «اعلام یک قتل»، «پنجمین کتاب از ماجراهای دوشیزه مارپل»، «قطار ساعت چهار و پنجاه دقیقه از پدینگتون و اعلام یک قتل»؛ نویسنده آگاتا کریستی؛ تاریخ نخستین خوانش روز بیست و ششم ماه نوامبر سال2009میلادیعنوان: اعلام یک قتل، پنجمین کتاب از ماجراهای دوشیزه مارپل، نویسنده: آگاتا کریستی؛ مترجم: محمدعلی ایزدی، نشر: کتاب‌های کارآگاه (وابسته به انتشارات هرمس)، چاپ دوم، در سال1388، ادبیات پلیسی و جنایی در362صفحه؛ شابک9789643634100؛ موضوع داستانهای نویسندگان بریتانیا - سده 20معنوان: قطار ساعت چهار و پنجاه دقیقه از پدینگتون و اعلام یک قتل؛ نویسنده: آگاتا کریستی؛ مترجم: محمدعلی ایزدی، تهران، هرمس، سال 1388؛ در720ص؛ شابک9789643636203؛ چکیده: در روزنامه ی محلی روستایی کوچک، قتلی در خانه ی زنی به نام «لتیشا بلک‌ لاک» اعلام می‌شود؛ در ساعت مقرر، و در حالیکه تعدادی از اهالی روستا، در محل گفته شده، حاضر هستند، ناگهان برق ساختمان قطع می‌شود، و مردی با چراغ‌ قوه، در ورودی اتاق، ظاهر می‌شود؛ پس از شنیده شدن صدای چند گلوله، هنگامی که برق مجدداً وصل می‌شود، حضار با جسد فرد چراغ به دست، و اسلحه‌ ای در کنار وی، مواجه می‌شوند؛ پلیس برای یافتن راز قتل، از «دوشیزه مارپل»، یاری می‌گیرد؛ در این بین شخصی دیگر از مدعوین، و نیز دوست و هم‌خانه خانم «بلک‌ لاک» نیز، به قتل می‌رسند؛ و ...؛ تاریخ بهنگام رسانی 18/08/1399هجری خورشیدی؛ 28/07/1400هجری خورشیدی؛ ا. شربیانی

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So... a murder is listed in a newspaper... foretelling it will happen at a certain date and time. Is it possible? Yes. Does it happen? You'll just have to read it. Christie at her best... love her stories. love the concept. Well-written. I'm on a kick to go back and read all the Poirot's and Marple's this year! The best part about this one is the murder takes forever to happen... and you wonder what the real mystery is for so long. I can imagine watching the clock waiting but not knowing what to do. Very inside one's head to figure this one out! About Me For those new to me or my reviews... here's the scoop: I read A LOT. I write A LOT. And now I blog A LOT. First the book review goes on Goodreads, and then I send it on over to my WordPress blog at https://thisismytruthnow.com, where you'll also find TV & Film reviews, the revealing and introspective 365 Daily Challenge and lots of blogging about places I've visited all over the world. And you can find all my social media profiles to get the details on the who/what/when/where and my pictures. Leave a comment and let me know what you think. Vote in the poll and ratings. Thanks for stopping by. Note: All written content is my original creation and copyrighted to me, but the graphics and images were linked from other sites and belong to them. Many thanks to their original creators.

I prefer Poirot-novels to Marple ones, but this book has always been in the Top 5 on my Agatha Christie favourites list. This time I actually put myself the question "why". It is NOT because of the investigation or the solution of the crime, even though it is very well done in the classic Agatha Christie style: red herrings are there to lead you astray; real clues are hidden in plain sight and yet elude you completely. The answer is characterization, which is perfect: concise and revealing. Dame Agatha depicts her characters without mercy (everyone has motive/potential/opportunity to commit murder) and yet with humour & a deep understanding (people are the same everywhere: we are all human with faults and foibles). This insight into characters as well as the milieu they are placed in reminds me a bit of Jane Austen and what she wrote to her niece Anna on writing novels: “3 or 4 Families in a Country village is the very thing to work on”. Also a quote from Elizabeth Bennet comes to mind: “Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.” So this mixture of Jane Austen & Agatha Christie which delights me in this particular novel.

In A Murder Is Announced, a notice appears in the local papers stating the time and location of a murder. The neighbors, thinking it was all great fun, show up en masse. When a murder actually happens and it becomes clear this is no game, fear quickly takes over. In steps old, fussy, adorable Mrs. Marple, with her astute observations and keen awareness of human nature.This story is so fun and quintessentially Agatha Christie--a locked room mystery, a handful of suspects, and plenty of red herrings and secrets everywhere. And when it's all explained in the end, it's just so damn satisfying to have everything tie up in a logical manner. I had an inkling of the guilty party this time, though not the underlying motives, but that didn't diminish my enjoyment of this book.I first started reading Agatha Christie in 8th grade. Over the last few years, I've been embarking on a (slow) reread of her books with the goal of getting through them all. This is one of her personal favorites, so I had high expectations going in. And once again, as always, she doesn't let me down!

Agatha Christie Book Reading ChallengeBOOK 15 :- FEB 20205 STARS

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Finally a Marple mystery that worked for me…. somewhat!I can safely say that this is the best Marple story I have read (which isn’t saying much, considering that I have read exactly two full-length novels and three short stories featuring the iconic character.) By now, I have attuned myself to the format and was hence prepared for the huge infodump in the final 20%. (Not that I liked it; I tolerated it.)What clicked for me:😍 Miss Marple doesn’t just make an appearance a lot earlier (around the 30% mark) but also gets an active role in the proceedings. I finally feel like I know the character to some extent.😍 There are several complicated but memorable characters. They might not be layered (possible because there are too many of them to go in depth about) but the variety of persons adds to the interest factor. Mitzi the cook was my favourite of the lot, followed by Bunch the parson’s wife.😍 The resolution of the mystery isn’t entirely dependent on the “detective” Miss Marple but is resolved in bits and pieces by many characters.😍 There are plenty of red herrings, but also an equal number of intelligent clues scattered throughout the narrative that are all helpful in guessing the culprit. As such, the resolution doesn’t spring out of nowhere (like it did in the other Marple stories) but comes logically from the plot. The intricacy of the planning is such that what I had assumed to be typos also turned out to be clues. Quite intelligent plot structuring!😍 It seems fairly fast-paced. (I say “seems” because I didn’t get to test this hypothesis due to my adamant brain’s refusal to cooperate for an enthusiastic reading of the book.)What didn’t work for me:😔 The book hasn’t aged well. There are plenty of xenophobic & racist references. I know the book is a product of its times, but when the number of such allusions goes beyond an acceptable minimum, it becomes tougher and tougher to ignore. Of course, I am not docking stars for this, because a book ought to be judged as per the era it was written in rather than the year it was read in. But these elements were still a downer for me.😔 I have no idea why, but I kept zoning out of the narration after every few paragraphs. This could partly be blamed on my dislike for this genre. It could also be because there was a lot of blah-blah-blah in the first half. The second half is where the narration starts picking up its stride. Until the 70% mark or so, my intrigue was at a minimal level and I could keep the book aside more easily than I could pick it up. 😔 Infodump at the climax, as in every single mystery. The “big reveal” starts from the 80% point and goes almost till the end.😔 A couple of character actions didn’t make sense, but if they were to make sense, there would have been no mystery. Oh well!This above-average experience doesn’t change my mind about the Miss Marple series, which I now feel isn’t for me. I will still complete the Marple anthology I have going on, but thereafter, I shall bid adieu to this character. Maybe I will have better luck with Poirot. Fingers crossed. It sucks not to be able to connect with the works of an author that the whole world except you seems to adore. 3.5 stars, rounding up because I can honestly say to the book: “It’s not you; it’s me.”———————————————Connect with me through: My Blog | The StoryGraph | Facebook | Twitter

Sometimes you just need a classic for a palate cleanser, to remind you that things can be well done. Exposition can be done while plot moves along. I can figure out what everyone is like from dialogue and actions. I can get atmosphere and setting from hints and judicious description (no one said a word about this being austerity Britain and no one had to- illegal butter trading said it all). I can feel like I know characters quickly and get into a mystery that I care about solving. Yeah. Sometimes you gotta get away from that “for fans of” nonsense and go back to the real thing. Well done, excellent package of a thing from top to bottom.

I thoroughly enjoyed this one - a really engaging read, with great characters and a strong mystery.

"A murder is announced and will take place on Friday, October 29th, at Little Paddocks at 6:30 p.m. Friends please accept this, this only intimation."Such is the ad that runs in the local gazette in the village of Chipping Cleghorn. Little Paddocks is the property owned by Miss Letitia Blacklock, a house she lives in with one of her dearest friends, two young cousins, her gardener and her cook. Everyone is shocked by the ad and denies having anything to with it. Still, Miss Blacklock feels compelled to host and on the set day and time neighbours simply "stop by casually". What everyone assumes is a party game takes a grim turn when a young man winds up dead. With many and differing accounts of the event, Miss Jane Marple is called upon to solve this mystery.The last Miss Marple mystery I read was a bit of a letdown. This installment, however, is by far my favorite Marple to date. Published in 1950, a death occurs in Chipping Cleghorn a village not unlike St. Mary Mead. A strange ad is published in the local gazette luring all the neighbours to the house of Miss Letitia Blacklock. Not being able to contain their curiosity, the neighbours show up, the lights go out, a man enters the room, shots are fired and said man winds up dead. Emotions range from a great thrill to fear and the question lingers of wether the death was an accident or not. Enter Miss Marple. As Miss Marple gets to know the village and its inhabitants, she begins to piece together what actually happened that night. The red herrings in this plot were vast and varied and not one detail was left unchecked. I am not kidding, even a small detail as the placement of an object or the way a person was addressed played into this mystery. Without a doubt this is one of the best plots and characterizations done by Christie. The village and neighbours were both a source of comic relief and the force that moved the plot along. I absolutely love the reveal. A few details I was able to figure out but as for the bulk of the mystery, it was a complete surprise to me. How everything tied in together, it was marvelously done. There is just one thing that bothered me with the book and that is the casual way in which the past of Mitzi, the Eastern European war refugee who is Miss Blacklock's cook, was overlooked. I do think Mitzi was depicted too harshly and her circumstances taken too lightly. Aside from that, this is as good as a book gets. Highly, highly recommended!

A Miss Marple story which has "delicious death" as its central plot. Once again Agatha Christie comes up with a superb plot for her 50th novel. The beginning i quite different from her other stories but intriguing. Though limited to a few characters, the reader is left guessing till the end who the murderer was. Delightful read

A murder is announced! The local newspaper for Chipping Cleghorn bears a notice that a murder shall take place at 6.30pm sharp, on Friday 29th October. Curiosity is rife but few take this grave pronouncement very seriously and so all flock to the murder site, in the hopes of witnessing revelry or, at the least, the culprit for this darkly humorous joke. Instead they do, in fact, find themselves all witness to a murder. And one they cannot say they weren't warned for.This began in the most intriguing fashion. The reader is introduced to the many members of this small village community as they pore over their morning newspaper. We are granted a good indication as to their character, as well as their initial reaction to the announcement the novel centres around. This could easily have become a scene dull in its repetition, but Christie's knack for character creation kept each one feeling fresh and had me poring over these many times hoping to decipher some piece to the puzzle that was as yet unknown to me.As the story-line progressed, and moved to the scene of the crime, there was just as much to keep the reader guessing as all characters gave their disparate descriptions of the event, that painted more than one in a sinister light. It is only the unfailingly curios Miss Marple who had any inkling of how to unravel their twisted tales, and, in her usual fashion, she kept all involved guessing right up until the final pages about whom the perpetrators were.Despite having one of the most thrilling initial scenes, of all the Christie books I have so far read, I feel unable to award this the full five stars as this is one of the few mysteries I have gone some way towards guessing the ending of. I found the clues were dropped in a more heavy-handed fashion, as the story-line continued, and made it easier, than in many of her other novels, for the reader to decipher where the criminals were hiding and what their true motives were. This was still full of its classic Christie brilliance, however, and proved once again her prowess in the art of the sinister.

FANTASTICO. El mejor de los libros que he leído de Miss Marple.Todo comienza con la publicación en el periódico local de un pueblo, de un anuncio muy particular, el anuncio de un asesinato, en un lugar y hora fijado. Los vecinos como no!! por la simple curiosidad se van a acercar a dicha casa para ver que va a su suceder.(view spoiler)[La anfitriona creo que se trata de una broma y en principio no le da mucha importancia pero sabe como es la gente del pueblo y se dispone a recibirles.Lo curioso es que si que tiene lugar un intento de asesinato de la propia anfitriona.Y lo demás lo tendreis que descubrir en esta magnífica novela en el que nada es lo que parece. (hide spoiler)]Nota: creo que nunca acertaré con el culpable, jaajaja.¡Se convierte en uno de mis favorítos de Agatha.9/10

This is my fourth read of the book (but after a long, long time). I always marvel at how well her works appear during rereads. If the first time makes it seem like the solution came out of nowhere, the subsequent reads show that's not the case. There isn't a twist for twist's sake or a shocker. The hints are scattered well and good throughout the book. Of course, there's some information we don't know but that doesn't put us at a disadvantage as first appears. Since I remembered the major portions of the book, I was in a position to appreciate her plotting and the seamless blend of truth with red herrings. Human psychology, failings, emotions, prejudices, opinions, instincts, feelings, etc., are used to create what seem to be stereotypical and even caricatures. It's not always that an author can make the reader show interest in characters with little or no depth. The time period and setting add to the authenticity, and at this point, we need to remember that people were prejudiced against foreigners and refugees. War widows didn't always fare better either. The book shows how things were back then. Measuring the book against today's definitions and expectations is meaningless. The book doesn't belong to this society, though if you really cut across it, you will notice that similarities exist. The detailed explanation at the end *is* lengthy but then that's how mysteries go. Miss Marple relies more on the information revealed to her rather than comparisons with people from St. Mary Mead but there's some of it to form the basis of her 'investigations'. A Murder is Announced isn't her best work but a good read and an even better reread.