Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan was an English writer. She is known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around her fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. Christie was born into a wealthy upper-middle-class family in Torquay, Devon. Before marrying and starting a family in London, she had served in a Devon hospital during the First World War. Murder at the Vicarage concerns the murder of Colonel Lucius Protheroe, a man so despised that multiple people confess to the crime after the fact. Parishioners in the small town of St. Mary Mead gather after church to gossip about numerous things, including the possible indiscretions of Protheroe’s daughter, Lettice, who, apparently, is shacking up with artist Lawrence Redding, and a missing one-pound note from the collection jar. Miss Marple agrees to have lunch with Protheroe’s unhappy wife, Anne. In the evening, Miss Marple joins Anne, Lawrence, the vicar Leonard Clement, the vicar’s wife, Griselda, their nephew, Dennis, and the curate Hawes at the vicar’s house for dinner. They each describe how they would kill the much-despised Colonel Protheroe; all except Miss Marple, that is. The housemaid, Mary, also hates Protheroe after he takes great pleasure in sending her boyfriend to prison on charges of poaching. The next day, Protheroe is found murdered with a bullet in the head in the vicarage at 6.40… Enjoy free online English audiobook “Murder at the Vicarage”, a breathtaking novel by Agatha Christie.
