A Caribbean Mystery

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A Caribbean Mystery

First edition cover Collins Crime Club edition
Author	Agatha Christie
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Series	Miss Marple
Genre(s)	Mystery, Detective, Novel
Publisher	Collins Crime Club
Released	1964
Media Type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages	256 pp (first edition, hardback)
ISBN	NA (first edition, hardback) & ISBN 0-451-19992-8 (US paperback edition)

A Caribbean Mystery (published in 1964) is a detective fiction novel by Agatha Christie featuring the detective Miss Marple.

Contents 1 Plot summary 2 Literary significance & criticism 3 Trivia 4 Film, TV or theatrical adaptations 5 Footnotes

[edit] Plot summary

"Would you like to see a picture of a murderer?", Jane Marple is asked by a stranger whilst on a luxurious holiday in the Caribbean. But before she has a chance to answer, the man vanishes, only to be found dead the next day. But what happened to the photo? Why is the hotelier prone to nightmares? Why doesn't the most talked-about guest, a reclusive millionaire, ever leave his room? And will Miss Marple be able to prevent the next murder?

[edit] Literary significance & criticism

'Liveliness...infectious zest...as good as anything Miss Christie has done!' OBSERVER ^[1]

'There is no more cunning player of the murder game than Agatha Christie' SUNDAY TIMES ^[1]

'Throws off the false clues and misleading events as only a master of the art can do' NEW YORK TIMES ^[1]

[edit] Trivia

• The millionaire Jason Rafiel appears again, posthumously, in Nemesis.

• This is the only Jane Marple mystery to take place outside of England.

[edit] Film, TV or theatrical adaptations

A 1983 adaptation starred Helen Hayes as Marple; A TV adaptation with Joan Hickson starring in the 1989 version.

[edit] Footnotes

1. ^ ^{a b c} Agatha Christie-A Caribbean mystery.

Agatha Christie
Detectives: Hercule Poirot • Miss Marple • Tommy and Tuppence • Ariadne Oliver • Arthur Hastings • Superintendent Battle • Chief Inspector Japp • Parker Pyne
Novels: The Mysterious Affair at Styles • The Secret Adversary • Murder on the Links • The Man in the Brown Suit • The Secret of Chimneys • The Murder of Roger Ackroyd • The Big Four • The Mystery of the Blue Train • The Seven Dials Mystery • The Murder at the Vicarage • The Sittaford Mystery • Peril at End House • Lord Edgware Dies • Murder on the Orient Express • Three Act Tragedy • Why Didn't They Ask Evans? • Death in the Clouds • The A.B.C. Murders • Murder in Mesopotamia • Cards on the Table • Death on the Nile • Dumb Witness • Appointment with Death • And Then There Were None • Murder is Easy • Hercule Poirot's Christmas • Sad Cypress • Evil Under the Sun • N or M? • One, Two, Buckle My Shoe • The Body in the Library • Five Little Pigs • The Moving Finger • Towards Zero • Sparkling Cyanide • Death Comes as the End • The Hollow • Taken at the Flood • Crooked House • A Murder is Announced • They Came to Baghdad • Mrs McGinty's Dead • They Do It with Mirrors • A Pocket Full of Rye • After the Funeral • Hickory Dickory Dock • Destination Unknown • Dead Man's Folly • 4.50 From Paddington • Ordeal by Innocence • Cat Among the Pigeons • The Pale Horse • The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side • The Clocks • A Caribbean Mystery • At Bertram's Hotel • Third Girl • Endless Night • By the Pricking of My Thumbs • Hallowe'en Party • Passenger to Frankfurt • Nemesis • Elephants Can Remember • Postern of Fate • Curtain • Sleeping Murder
As Mary Westmacott: Giant's Bread • Unfinished Portrait • Absent in the Spring • The Rose and the Yew Tree • A Daughter's a Daughter • The Burden
Short story collections: Poirot Investigates • Partners in Crime • The Mysterious Mr. Quin • The Hound of Death • The Thirteen Problems • Parker Pyne Investigates • The Listerdale Mystery • Murder in the Mews • The Regatta Mystery • The Labours of Hercules • Poirot's Early Cases • The Harlequin Tea Set
Plays: Akhnaton • The Mousetrap • Witness for the Prosecution • Verdict • Rule of Three • Fiddlers Three