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The Murder at the Vicarage

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The Murder at the Vicarage	comment	The Murder at the Vicarage is a 1930 detective novel by Agatha Christie. It is the first novel to feature Miss Marple, the harmless old lady who lives at the idyllic village of St Mary Mead and just happens to constantly bump into murders. (The character had previously debuted in short stories, which were later published together as story collection The Thirteen Problems.)In the aforementioned St Mary Mead, there is a general climate of harmony and good-will and everyone gets along. Everyone, that is, except Colonel Protheroe, the most disliked man in the village. His daughter wishes he would do a good thing and die, and even the vicar observes that killing him would be a service to the townsfolk. Then, Protheroe is found murdered in the vicar's study. His unfaithful wife and her artist lover both confess to the murder, to the great confusion of Inspector Slack. It's up to Miss Marple to make sense of this story and find out who really did it...The book is narrated in first person by the vicar, Leonard Clement.It was adapted by the BBC in 1986 with Joan Hickson in the role of Miss Marple and again by ITV in 2004 with Geraldine McEwan as Miss Marple. There is also a 1949 play with Barbara Mullen and a graphic novel released by Harper Collins in 2008.Christie dedicated the book to her daughter and only child, Rosalind Hinks.WARNING: Heavy unconcealed spoilers ahead.
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The Murder at the Vicarage / int_10dcbe05	comment	Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: At the start of the novel, Len's so irritated with Griselda, he contemplates writing to the archbishop that the Church should bring back celibacy into the clergy. Despite this, they are Happily Married, to the point that when Leonard thinks that Miss Marple is suggesting that Griselda is unfaithful, he immediately leapt to her defense.
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The Murder at the Vicarage / int_1c751b35	type	The Vicar
The Murder at the Vicarage / int_1c751b35	comment	The Vicar: Leonard Clement is often described by his parishioners as being too trusting and "unworldly"... not at all accurately, as it turns out.
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The Murder at the Vicarage / int_1ec3eb0a	type	Take Our Word for It
The Murder at the Vicarage / int_1ec3eb0a	comment	Take Our Word for It: At one point, the Vicar, whose sermons are usually "dull and scholarly", is inspired to preach an evangelical call to repentance. He describes it almost entirely through its effect on his audience.
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The Murder at the Vicarage / int_216dab44	type	Framing the Guilty Party
The Murder at the Vicarage / int_216dab44	comment	Framing the Guilty Party: A key to the murder plot. Lawrence and Anne plant several clues to make it look like Colonel Protheroe was shot at 6:20, right when Anne came to the vicarage to see if her husband was there. The police are meant to see through these clues and assume the crime was committed later. Lettice plants one of Anne's earrings at the crime scene, convinced that her stepmother was guilty but unable to find any evidence of it.
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The Murder at the Vicarage / int_234fa9ba	type	Mayâ€“December Romance
The Murder at the Vicarage / int_234fa9ba	comment	Mayâ€“December Romance: Leonard and Griselda. He's 20 years older than her, she had many other suitors, and he proposed to her within 24 hours of meeting her despite the fact, as she cheerfully puts it, that "I am everything you disapprove of in a woman."
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The Murder at the Vicarage / int_255cc9bd	type	Nephewism
The Murder at the Vicarage / int_255cc9bd	comment	Nephewism: The Vicar lives with his nephew Dennis, whom he and his wife appear to be raising as their own. His biological parents are not mentioned.
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The Murder at the Vicarage / int_29e294a6	type	Stopped Clock
The Murder at the Vicarage / int_29e294a6	comment	Stopped Clock: Rev. Clement's clock was knocked over and broken when Protheroe was killed, seemingly fixing the time—but this creates confusion as Rev. Clement was in the habit of setting the clock 15 minutes fast.
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The Murder at the Vicarage / int_2d363f63	type	Frame-Up
The Murder at the Vicarage / int_2d363f63	comment	Frame-Up: Curate Hawes confesses to an entirely different crime and appears to commit suicide, when it was actually Lawrence switching out Hawes' medication. However, at first it does appear that he's confessing to the murder.
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The Murder at the Vicarage / int_2dc0d2bf	type	Hidden Depths
The Murder at the Vicarage / int_2dc0d2bf	comment	Hidden Depths: There are dimensions of Leonard Clement's character that surprise even him. His wife comments that he is 'very unexpected' and she never feels she really knows him... which may be why she married him.
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The Murder at the Vicarage / int_30725d31	type	Medication Tampering
The Murder at the Vicarage / int_30725d31	comment	Medication Tampering: Lawrence switches Hawes' medication with a poison, nearly killing him.
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The Murder at the Vicarage / int_323fd510	type	Everyone Is a Suspect
The Murder at the Vicarage / int_323fd510	comment	Everyone Is a Suspect: Played with. Miss Marple talks about having "seven suspects" whom she believes is the most likely murderer, and this list comprises pretty much all the major characters, including the Vicar himself. However, she doesn't name her suspects until the actual killer is arrested.
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The Murder at the Vicarage / int_35ab4cec	type	You Watch Too Much X
The Murder at the Vicarage / int_35ab4cec	comment	You Watch Too Much X: Near the beginning, Griselda starts speculating about the mysterious and possibly sinister Mrs Lestrange, and Len tells her she reads too many detective novels.
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The Murder at the Vicarage / int_35ae6a23	type	Lethal Chef
The Murder at the Vicarage / int_35ae6a23	comment	Lethal Chef: Griselda can't cook or keep house in general. Their maid, Mary, isn't much better than her.
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The Murder at the Vicarage / int_35e077	type	Fourth-Date Marriage
The Murder at the Vicarage / int_35e077	comment	Fourth-Date Marriage: Leonard proposed marriage to Griselda after only knowing her for 24 hours. Even he's not sure why.
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The Murder at the Vicarage / int_3d5377e5	type	First-Person Peripheral Narrator
The Murder at the Vicarage / int_3d5377e5	comment	First-Person Peripheral Narrator: The novel is told from the perspective of Vicar Clement, who is much more involved with the police investigations (what with the murder taking place in his house) than Miss Marple herself.
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The Murder at the Vicarage / int_460afe01	type	Two Dun It
The Murder at the Vicarage / int_460afe01	comment	Two Dun It: The solution, and one of Agatha Christie's favorite tropes. Lawrence and Anne were in on it together, conspiring to kill her husband because Lawrence wanted the money.
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The Murder at the Vicarage / int_479f9ad0	type	Characterization Marches On
The Murder at the Vicarage / int_479f9ad0	comment	Characterization Marches On: Miss Marple is at times a rather bossy, nosy, unpleasant woman throughout the course of the book. Having realized that she wanted to write more stories with Marple as the detective, Christie toned down on some of these characteristics for later mysteries.
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The Murder at the Vicarage / int_4b39c18	type	Taking the Heat
The Murder at the Vicarage / int_4b39c18	comment	Taking the Heat: Both Lawrence Redding and his lover Anne Protheroe confesses to the murder, while insisting the other is innocent. It is then deduced that the two had separately stumbled upon the corpse, wrongly concluded that their loved one had committed the deed and made the confession in order to protect the other. Subverted. The two were actually co-conspirators to the crime, and made the confession to confuse the police.
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The Murder at the Vicarage / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
The Murder at the Vicarage / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: Inspector Slack is very energetic, but ultimately doesn't do much to solve the crime other than interrogate people. Colonel Melchett contributes more, but it's ultimately Miss Marple that figures the whole thing out.
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The Murder at the Vicarage / int_611a1a5e	type	Nosy Neighbor
The Murder at the Vicarage / int_611a1a5e	comment	Nosy Neighbor: Miss Marple and her circle of gossipy women gather for what they call "tea and scandal" and as a group peep from behind a window curtain to watch Anne Protheroe when she scurries half-dressed from Lawrence's house.
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The Murder at the Vicarage / int_6d9bc945	type	Babies Ever After
The Murder at the Vicarage / int_6d9bc945	comment	Babies Ever After: At the end of the story Griselda reveals to Clement that she's pregnant.
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The Murder at the Vicarage / int_72852a93	type	Henpecked Husband
The Murder at the Vicarage / int_72852a93	comment	Henpecked Husband: The Vicar, occasionally, as a side effect of his utter devotion to his wife. Even when their completely incompetent maid Mary attempts to leave their services, Leonard reluctantly obeys Griselda's plea to dissuade the girl, although Len himself doesn't like Mary and would probably be much happier if she was gone.
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The Murder at the Vicarage / int_7390323c	type	Sticky Fingers
The Murder at the Vicarage / int_7390323c	comment	Sticky Fingers: In the beginning of the novel, the Vicar briefly mentions an incident about a missing pound note from the church offering, though he thought that someone had just made a mistake over the amount of money they had actually given. Later, it is revealed that Curate Hawes had stolen it, and the reason he called the Vicar was to confess to his stealing habits.
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The Murder at the Vicarage / int_7598fec1	type	Stocking Filler
The Murder at the Vicarage / int_7598fec1	comment	Stocking Filler: Rev. Clement cannot help but notice when Miss Cram sits and crosses her legs, "which were encased in shiny pink stockings."
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The Murder at the Vicarage / int_7a82c3d2	type	All Love Is Unrequited
The Murder at the Vicarage / int_7a82c3d2	comment	All Love Is Unrequited: Dennis is infatuated with Lettice, who's in love with Lawrence Redding, who's in love with her stepmother, who's married to Lettice's father.
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The Murder at the Vicarage / int_7d53bc0b	type	Hollywood Silencer
The Murder at the Vicarage / int_7d53bc0b	comment	Hollywood Silencer: Averted. A maid hears 'a man's sneeze', which sounds much closer to a real silencer, used to cover up the fatal gunshot.
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The Murder at the Vicarage / int_8cb66c2f	type	Who Murdered the Asshole
The Murder at the Vicarage / int_8cb66c2f	comment	Who Murdered the Asshole: As the Colonel is the most disliked man in the village of St. Mary Mead, most of the villagers have a good reason to see him dead. Even the vicar says that killing him would be a service to the community. On the first page.
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The Murder at the Vicarage / int_9d3b4703	type	This Is Reality
The Murder at the Vicarage / int_9d3b4703	comment	This Is Reality: Invoked by Marple in how she was onto Redding as the culprit.
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The Murder at the Vicarage / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
The Murder at the Vicarage / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: St. Mary Mead, which from this novel for the next 45 years or so would be the home of Miss Jane Marple, was actually first mentioned in earlier novel The Mystery of the Blue Train, a Hercule Poirot novel.
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The Murder at the Vicarage / int_9fb5d589	type	Not Now, Kiddo
The Murder at the Vicarage / int_9fb5d589	comment	Not Now, Kiddo: Rev. Clement twice tries to tell Inspector Slack that the clock in his study was deliberately set fifteen minutes ahead. After Slack rudely demands silence, Clement decides not to bother telling him, hoping that Slack will be embarrassed if he finds out later, having spent a fair bit of thought on the timing of the murder based on the clock.
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The Murder at the Vicarage / int_a1b0c1c2	type	Revealing Cover-Up
The Murder at the Vicarage / int_a1b0c1c2	comment	Revealing Cover-Up: Mrs. Protheroe stops to talk to Miss Marple on her way to kill her husband, making sure that Miss Marple will note the timing of her movements and also the fact that she doesn't have a purse with her or any other place she could conceal a gun. It backfires when it occurs to Miss Marple to wonder just why Mrs. Protheroe wouldn't have brought her purse on a shopping trip...
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The Murder at the Vicarage / int_a734c20	type	Black Widow
The Murder at the Vicarage / int_a734c20	comment	Black Widow: Anne Protheroe murders her husband at the instigation of her lover.
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The Murder at the Vicarage / int_ac5364fe	type	Chekhov's Hobby
The Murder at the Vicarage / int_ac5364fe	comment	Chekhov's Hobby: Len narrates that Lawrence Redding "does everything well", and gives several examples, one of which becomes important at the climax: after his innocence is clearly demonstrated by his shocked reaction to the murder and his surprise at the revelation of various details that would have been known only to the murderer, Miss Marple pulls the rug out by reminding us that he's a talented amateur actor.
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The Murder at the Vicarage / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
The Murder at the Vicarage / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Vicar Clement does his level best not to offend his parishioners, but can't help slipping in a snide remark or two when they start to get too melodramatic. His snark comes through much more often in the narration.
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The Murder at the Vicarage / int_b5b4b077	type	The Ace
The Murder at the Vicarage / int_b5b4b077	comment	The Ace: Lawrence Redding, a handsome young man who apparently "does everything well". He's a talented artist, a good shot, excellent at games, has charming personality, can tell a good story.
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The Murder at the Vicarage / int_b5dded87	type	Gossipy Hens
The Murder at the Vicarage / int_b5dded87	comment	Gossipy Hens: Several of them. Miss Marple humorously admits she is one at one point.
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The Murder at the Vicarage / int_bec0417c	type	Happily Married
The Murder at the Vicarage / int_bec0417c	comment	Happily Married: Played with to great and hilarious effect with the Clements.
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The Murder at the Vicarage / int_c0d32460	type	Sexy Secretary
The Murder at the Vicarage / int_c0d32460	comment	Sexy Secretary: Miss Cram, the leggy young secretary who is quite obviously looking to land Dr. Stone the archaeologist as a marriage partner.
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The Murder at the Vicarage / int_c2d6bd47	type	Redemption Earns Life
The Murder at the Vicarage / int_c2d6bd47	comment	Redemption Earns Life: A rather literal case: Curate Hawes calling the Vicar to confess about his Sticky Fingers ends up saving his life when he's poisoned by the murderer, as the phone call to the Vicar is the only reason he's found in time.
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The Murder at the Vicarage / int_c3585f4a	type	Boom, Headshot!
The Murder at the Vicarage / int_c3585f4a	comment	Boom, Headshot!: Col. Protheroe is killed with a single pistol shot to the back of the head.
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The Murder at the Vicarage / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Murder at the Vicarage / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The Vicar and Lawrence briefly refer to the stories of Christie's fellow Detective Club member G. K. Chesterton.
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The Murder at the Vicarage / int_c82e751f	type	Unspoken Plan Guarantee
The Murder at the Vicarage / int_c82e751f	comment	Unspoken Plan Guarantee: Inverted. Miss Marple's plan is spelled out to the audience beforehand, and its success is confirmed in one brief, almost off-hand sentence after the fact.
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The Murder at the Vicarage / int_c897338a	type	Little Old Lady Investigates
The Murder at the Vicarage / int_c897338a	comment	Little Old Lady Investigates: Miss Marple is of course the Trope Codifier.
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The Murder at the Vicarage / int_d129e13e	type	"Eureka!" Moment
The Murder at the Vicarage / int_d129e13e	comment	"Eureka!" Moment: Miss Marple has one when a neglected houseplant gives her the answer to the one part of the puzzle she had not been able to figure out.
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The Murder at the Vicarage / int_d1d1f420	type	Connected All Along
The Murder at the Vicarage / int_d1d1f420	comment	Connected All Along: Lettice reveals that Mrs. Lestrange is her mother.
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