Dust-jacket illustration of the first UK edition
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Author | Agatha Christie |
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Cover artist | Not known |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Genre | Detective fiction Short stories |
Publisher | Collins Crime Club |
Publication date
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October 1979 |
Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
Pages | 140 pp (first edition, hardback) |
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OCLC | 52457481 |
Preceded by | An Autobiography |
Followed by | Problem at Pollensa Bay |
Miss Marple's Final Cases and Two Other Stories is a short story collection written by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by Collins Crime Club in October 1979 retailing at £4.50. It was the last Christie book to be published under the Collins Crime Club imprint although HarperCollins continue to be the writer's UK publishers.
The book contains eight short stories and did not appear in the United States; however, in 2010, an audio book and the Kindle edition were released, which included six stories from the book, plus Greenshaw's Folly.
Robert Barnard: "Posthumous collection, containing several good and good-ish Marple cases previously only available in the States. Also two supernatural stories, which Christie did not have the stylistic resources to bring off successfully."
Five paperback editions were issued from November 1980 to the most recent in April 2010 by Ulverscroft Large Print Books Ltd, / 9781444802344.
This collection was issued for Kindle by HarperCollins in October 2010, ISBN B0046RE5FY and in July 2012, ISBN B008I5CNPE. The latest audio edition includes an additional short story, originally published in The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding collection, Greenshaw's Folly.
The first UK magazine publication of all the stories is as follows: