Marple: Twelve New Stories

A brand new collection featuring the Queen of Crime's legendary detective Miss Jane Marple, penned by twelve bestselling and acclaimed authors

This collection of twelve original short stories, all featuring Jane Marple, will introduce the character to a whole new generation.Each author reimagines Agatha Christie''s Marple through their own unique perspective while staying true to the hallmarks of a traditional mystery. Naomi Alderman Leigh Bardugo Alyssa Cole Lucy Foley Elly Griffiths Natalie Haynes Jean Kwok Val McDermid Karen M. McManus Dreda Say Mitchell Kate Mosse Ruth Ware Miss Marple was first introduced to readers in a story 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 .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.

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A brand new collection featuring the Queen of Crime's legendary detective Miss Jane Marple, penned by twelve bestselling and acclaimed authors

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Agatha Christie is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in English with another billion in over 70 foreign languages. She is the most widely published author of all time and in any language, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 20 plays, and six novels written under the name of Mary Westmacott.

Alyssa Cole is a New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author of romance, thrillers, and graphic novels. Her Civil War-set espionage romance An Extraordinary Union was the American Library Association's RUSA Best Romance for 2018; her contemporary rom-com A Princess in Theory was one of the New York Times' 100 Notable Books of 2018; and her debut thriller When No One Is Watching was the winner of the 2021 Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original. Her books have received critical acclaim from the Washington Post, Library Journal, Kirkus, BuzzFeed, Book Riot, Entertainment Weekly, and various other outlets. When she's not working, she can usually be found watching kdrama with her husband or wrangling her pets.

Lucy Foley studied English Literature at Durham and UCL universities. She then worked for several years as a fiction editor in the publishing industry during which time she also wrote her debut, The Book of Lost and Found. Lucy now writes full-time, and is busy travelling (for research, naturally!) and working on her next novel.

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Val McDermid is a No.1 bestseller whose novels have been translated into more than thirty languages, and have sold more than sixteen million copies. She has won many awards internationally, including the CWA Gold Dagger for best crime novel of the year. She was inducted into the ITV3 Crime Thriller Awards Hall of Fame in 2009, was the recipient of the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger in 2010. Val writes full time and lives in Edinburgh and the East Neuk of Fife.

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A brand new collection of short stories featuring the Queen of Crime's legendary detective Jane Marple, penned by twelve remarkable bestselling and acclaimed authors.