Accordingly, readers can expect to be entertained by mystery and mayhem, fortified by tea and sympathy, culminating in a well-explained denouement. Many of this writer's former conjuring tricks as well as one or two new one are provided, framed in a setting that has similarities to that of Dorothy L Sayers' "Have His Carcase", and re-working a formula used previously in her own "Death On the Nile". You might, like me, consider that the writer withholds too much information that might facilitate identifying the guilty, but a check will show that she provides clues (although well hidden) during the entertainment.

As cozy as they come, and with less thrills and action than most, this is one of Agatha Christie's better middle order crime novels.

A Christie's classic
Review date: 2002-10-28 Rating: 8 out of 10

One of Agatha Christie's classic novels, 'The body in the library' is again a story on a murder. Unlike other novels by the same author (but again very much like some other ones by Christie) the dead body is there to be found already in the first chapter. A girl's dead body is found unexpectedly in a private library. It's certainly a case for Miss Marple to solve. Christie employs here all the characteristics of her writing: a deadalic plot, lost of details and a very good sense of humour before the murderer is revealed. A stunning detective novel and (for many people) one of Christie's best ones. I enjoyed it.

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