The Thirteen Problems by Agatha Christie

The original dustjacket blurb of the collection reads, 'Each story is a little masterpiece of detection, clever and ingenious, with just that added twist that only Agatha Christie can give.'ĭid you know that the story line of the eighth short story, The Companion, was later reworked and expanded on to form the basis for the full length novel, A Murder is Announced? These were some of the first Miss Marple stories that Agatha Christie wrote and the first in the collection, The Tuesday Night Club, was Miss Marple's debut in print when it was published in The Royal Magazine in 1927. The Thirteen Problems was first published as a collection in the UK in 1932 and later under a different title, The Tuesday Night Murders, in the US in 1933. This month we delve into the Miss Marple short story collection, The Thirteen Problems, and join The Tuesday Night Club as they tell tales of unsolved mysteries whilst Miss Marple uses her detective powers to unravel them. Precision in Miss Marple’s pursuit of the killers in each tale… and a few surprises The company is inclined to forget their elderly host.

Invisible will a spiritualist who warned that ‘Blue Geranium’ meant death…AsĮach of her guests is mystified by the sinister tales they tell one another, The case of the disappearingīloodstains the thief who committed his crime twice over the message on theĭeath-bed of a poisoned man which read ‘heap of fish’ the strange case of the One Tuesday evening a group gathers at Miss Marple’s houseĪnd the conversation turns to unsolved crimes.

The Thirteen Problems by Agatha Christie