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The Body in the Library

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The Body in the Library	comment	The Body in the Library is a mystery novel by Agatha Christie featuring Miss Marple and published in 1942.The body of a pretty young girl, Ruby Keene, is found unexpectedly on the floor of the library in a house owned by the respectable old couple Mr. and Mrs. Bantry. They have no idea who she is and how she got there. Mrs. Bantry, remembering her old friend Miss Marple, who is known for her deductive abilities, calls the latter so the two of them can investigate this murder alongside the local police.It is soon revealed the girl was a dancer at a nearby seaside hotel so Miss Marple decides to go there to talk with her colleagues and also with the elderly Mr. Jefferson, a dying millionaire who is revealed to have changed his will to include the victim as his beneficiary, in detriment to his son- and daughter-in-law. But the Bantrys' neighbour, Basil Blake, an allegedly dissolute young man involved in the movie industry, also sees himself suspected.Adapted for TV in 1984 by the BBC and in 2004 by ITV.
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The Body in the Library / int_1779f10e	type	"Well Done, Son" Guy
The Body in the Library / int_1779f10e	comment	"Well Done, Son" Guy: It is said that Frank Jefferson got into trading to prove himself as capable as his father, who is a successful businessman. When his investments go wrong, Frank does not dare to ask his father for financial help, for fear that the old man would be disappointed in him.
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The Body in the Library / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
The Body in the Library / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: In the first chapter, when Mrs. Bantry's maid intrudes into the master bedroom to tell her that "there's a body in the library."
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The Body in the Library / int_1f250372	type	I Need a Freaking Drink
The Body in the Library / int_1f250372	comment	I Need a Freaking Drink: When Josie is brought to the scene and identifies the body as her cousin Ruby, she then asks "There isn't any gin?"
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The Body in the Library / int_204cf900	type	Model Scam
The Body in the Library / int_204cf900	comment	Model Scam: One of the victims was reported missing after going to meet a suspicious "film producer" who had offered her to audition for a filming test.
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The Body in the Library / int_2eac5753	type	Narrative Profanity Filter
The Body in the Library / int_2eac5753	comment	Narrative Profanity Filter: Deployed when Chief Constable Melchett pushes Colonel Bantry, asking him if he's sure he doesn't recognize the dead girl in his library.
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The Body in the Library / int_3437ee2c	type	Inheritance Murder
The Body in the Library / int_3437ee2c	comment	Inheritance Murder: The motive. Ruby Keene was killed because Conway Jefferson was revising his will to leave her Â£50,000.
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The Body in the Library / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
The Body in the Library / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: Col. Bantry, reflecting on the things people can do when they're drunk, remembers one time at Cambridge when he'd had too much and "I put a certain utensil—well, well, never mind."
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The Body in the Library / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
The Body in the Library / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Basil Blake presents himself as one of those loud, disrespectful and obnoxious jackanape who goes out of his way to annoy the "old geezers" in the village. He is also a good-hearted young man who risked his life to rescue a family (including their dog) from a burning building.
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The Body in the Library / int_4a3e547f	type	Leaning on the Fourth Wall
The Body in the Library / int_4a3e547f	comment	Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Much discussion in this novel about the body-in-a-library murder mystery trope (now a Forgotten Trope) and how the discovery of the dead girl in the library is like something out of a mystery novel.
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The Body in the Library / int_643618e5	type	Replacement Goldfish
The Body in the Library / int_643618e5	comment	Replacement Goldfish: Mr. Jefferson saw the victim as a replacement to his dead daughter, Rosamund, whom he was most fond of. After her death, he realises that, in hindsight, the qualities he saw in Ruby are really just his own projections of Rosamund.
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The Body in the Library / int_7a0374eb	type	Impoverished Patrician
The Body in the Library / int_7a0374eb	comment	Impoverished Patrician: Raymond Starr is part of a formerly wealthy family that fell on hard times, forced to sell the mansion they held for three hundred years, with the sons looking for work. Subverted in the very last paragraph of the book when it's revealed that he was making it up in order to make an impression on Adelaide.
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The Body in the Library / int_7b8b3def	type	Celebrity Paradox
The Body in the Library / int_7b8b3def	comment	Celebrity Paradox: The young son of Adelaide Jefferson namedrops several of his favourite mystery writers including... Agatha Christie herself.
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The Body in the Library / int_7c9dcc1	type	THeUnfavorite
The Body in the Library / int_7c9dcc1	comment	The Unfavorite: While they're not his biological children, Mr. Jefferson clearly favours Adelaide to Mark, and the only reason he puts up with Mark at all is because he's the husband of his favourite child, Rosamund. Of course, this is justified because Adelaide is the one who takes care of the old man and accompanies him in his loneliness (until Ruby comes along, that is), while Mark is a selfish Jerkass.
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The Body in the Library / int_8163e2bb	type	Dramatic Drop
The Body in the Library / int_8163e2bb	comment	Dramatic Drop: "The bottles dropped from his arms onto the sofa" when Basil is told that he's about to be arrested for the murder of Ruby Keene.
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The Body in the Library / int_94e4c8ab	type	Betty and Veronica
The Body in the Library / int_94e4c8ab	comment	Betty and Veronica: Reliable Dogged Nice Guy Hugo and dashing dancer Raymond for Adelaide. She chooses Hugo in the end; in the BBC adaptation the triangle is Left Hanging.
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The Body in the Library / int_985f0a0f	type	Production Throwback
The Body in the Library / int_985f0a0f	comment	Production Throwback: In Christie novel Cards on the Table, her Author Avatar Ariadne Oliver—in the middle of some Creator Career Self-Deprecation in which Ariadne is basically admitting to being a hack—says that she wrote a mystery novel called The Body in the Library.
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The Body in the Library / int_9cc1a329	type	Upper-Class Twit
The Body in the Library / int_9cc1a329	comment	Upper-Class Twit: One of the suspects, George Bartlett, is a very absent-minded and inarticulate fellow who can't seem to get to his point, and keeps on forgetting what he's been doing. The police gets exceedingly annoyed trying to get anything useful out of him.
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The Body in the Library / int_a2492aff	type	Dogged Nice Guy
The Body in the Library / int_a2492aff	comment	Dogged Nice Guy: Hugo McLean, who has said to have been hanging around Adelaide Jefferson for years, even though she won't marry him because she's afraid of alienating her father-in-law. Surprisingly, it pays off in the end as they do get engaged.
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The Body in the Library / int_b41b9606	type	Never One Murder
The Body in the Library / int_b41b9606	comment	Never One Murder: Hard on the heels of Ruby Keene's murder, in fact hours later, comes the murder of a missing "Girl Guide" (Girl Scout) Pamela Reeves. It turns out that the murder of Pamela was crucial to fabricating an alibi for the other murder.
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The Body in the Library / int_b707726f	type	Hypocritical Humor
The Body in the Library / int_b707726f	comment	Hypocritical Humor: When Miss Marple briefly visits the vicar's wife Griselda, she finds her tending to her newborn son. Griselda informs her that she doesn't fuss or bother over or play with him much, because all the books she's read on parenting say that "a child should be left alone as much as possible". Naturally, as soon as Miss Marple has left, she is fussing and bothering over and playing with him as much as humanly possible.
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The Body in the Library / int_c2339e22	type	Identifying the Body
The Body in the Library / int_c2339e22	comment	Identifying the Body: The first part of the mystery, as the woman in the library is an out-of-towner that nobody in St. Mary Mead knows. Josie ends up deliberately misidentifying the body to throw the police off when they're lining up testimony with the reported time of death — the body is actually of a Girl Guide made up to look like Ruby, while the real Ruby was killed later and the body dumped elsewhere.
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The Body in the Library / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Body in the Library / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Hugo McLean is compared to Dobbin of Vanity Fair.
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The Body in the Library / int_d129e13e	type	"Eureka!" Moment
The Body in the Library / int_d129e13e	comment	"Eureka!" Moment: Basil Blake's girlfriend (actually wife) prompts Miss Marple to have one of these, by saying that all marriages are on record and can easily be verified. This is how she finds that Josie Turner and Mark Gaskell are married and that they are the murderers.
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The Body in the Library / int_d1cedb73	type	Slap-Slap-Kiss
The Body in the Library / int_d1cedb73	comment	Slap-Slap-Kiss: When Melchett confronts Basil Blake about the dead body, Basil's girlfriend, Dinah, interrupts them, and the two lovebirds had a huge row in front of the colonel, forcing him to leave. Such public display was how Miss Marple deduced that the two are actually married.
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The Body in the Library / int_de5e9f69	type	Bluffing the Murderer
The Body in the Library / int_de5e9f69	comment	Bluffing the Murderer: Miss Marple forces the killer to reveal themselves by having Mr. Jefferson announce that he's going to donate the money he had intended to bequeath to Ruby away. The killer was apprehended when they attempted to murder the old man that very night.
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The Body in the Library / int_e13156e1	type	Mama Bear
The Body in the Library / int_e13156e1	comment	Mama Bear: A lot of emphasis is put on how devoted of a mother Adelaide is towards her young son Peter, and her desire to secure more money for the boy makes a very strong case against her. In the TV series, this is one of the reasons why she was driven to murder.
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The Body in the Library / int_e2c4b927	type	Dub Name Change
The Body in the Library / int_e2c4b927	comment	Dub Name Change: In-Universe. Raymond Starr's real name is "Ramon" (he's Argentinian), but he changes it to "Raymond" to make it sound more English.
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The Body in the Library / int_f6b2bfb7	type	Gold Digger
The Body in the Library / int_f6b2bfb7	comment	Gold Digger: Played with; everyone pretty much accuses Ruby Keene of being one of these, and in fact she is one, having won the affections of a rich old man in hopes of a cash payout. However, everyone is (grudgingly) willing to point out that there was no malice in her, as a poor girl she could hardly be faulted for not turning down the possibility of coming into a large sum of money and that the other people surrounding Conway Jefferson, much as they might not have liked the situation, weren't exactly entitled to his money either.
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The Body in the Library / int_f8c8175a	type	Malicious Slander
The Body in the Library / int_f8c8175a	comment	Malicious Slander: When the dead body of an exotic young girl was found in the Bantrys's library, pretty much all of St. Mary Mead began whispering about how the old colonel must have had an affair with the murder victim, and probably killed her too. The only people who do not buy into this unpleasant gossip are Mrs. Bantry, Miss Marple herself and the vicar.
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