In Miss Marple’s Christmas by Ruth Ware (4.5/5) the theft of a valuable string of pearls during a Christmas gathering at Gossington Hall puts a damper on the festivities. While I did enjoy the collection as a whole, a few of the stories were particularly noteworthy: Mary Mead, London, the Amalfi Coast, Asia and the United States), this is a mixed bag as is most anthologies. Varied in approach and setting (including the fictional village of St. Marple: Twelve New Mysteries is an anthology that comprises twelve short stories, featuring Dame Agatha Christie’s Miss Jane Marple, the much-loved detective, and written by contemporary crime-fiction writers. The project was commissioned by Booktrust as part of the Story campaign, supported by Arts Council England.
She wrote the narrative for The Winter House, an online, interactive yet linear short story visualized by Jey Biddulph. Since its publication in the United Kingdom, it has been issued in the USA, Germany, Israel, Holland, Poland and France and is due to be published in Italy, Hungary and Croatia. Her literary debut came in 2006 with Disobedience, a well-received (if controversial) novel about a rabbi's daughter from North London who becomes a lesbian, which won her the 2006 Orange Award for New Writers. She and her father were interviewed in The Sunday Times "Relative Values" feature on 11 February 2007. Her father is Geoffrey Alderman, an academic who has specialised in Anglo-Jewish history. She was the lead writer for Perplex City, an Alternate reality game, at Mind Candy from 2004 through June, 2007. She then went on to study creative writing at the University of East Anglia before becoming a novelist.
Naomi Alderman (born 1974 in London) is a British author and novelist.Īlderman was educated at South Hampstead High School and Lincoln College, Oxford where she read Philosophy, Politics and Economics. It has been 45 years since Agatha Christie’s last Marple novel, Sleeping Murder, was published posthumously in 1976, and this collection of ingenious new stories by twelve Christie devotees will be a timely reminder why Jane Marple remains the most famous fictional female detective of all time. Miss Marple was first introduced to readers in a story Agatha Christie wrote for The Royal Magazine in 1927 and made her first appearance in a full-length novel in 1930’s The Murder at the Vicarage. Each author reimagines Agatha Christie’s Marple through their own unique perspective while staying true to the hallmarks of a traditional mystery.
This collection of a dozen original short stories, all featuring Jane Marple, will introduce the character to a whole new generation. A brand-new collection of short stories featuring the Queen of Mystery’s legendary detective Jane Marple, penned by twelve remarkable bestselling and acclaimed authors.
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