A Caribbean Mystery
- 224
- Pages
- about 4 h
- Reading time
- TV film 1983
- On screen
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Our view
Seeing Miss Marple far from St Mary Mead is a good part of the pleasure of “A Caribbean Mystery”. Her trip to the Caribbean soon becomes a murder case with plenty of turns, and the mood shifts between holiday lightness and something darker. Some readers guess the murderer early and find the story drawn out with padding.
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About the book
A Caribbean Mystery is a mystery novel by the English writer Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 16 November, 1964 and in the United States by Dodd, Mead and Company the following year. The UK edition retailed at sixteen shillings (16/-) and the US edition at $4.50. It features the detective Miss Marple.
Reading order · Miss Marple
Full order & progress →- The Murder at the VicarageStart here
7.87.8 / 10 - The Body in the Library
7.57.5 / 10 - The Moving Finger
7.57.5 / 10 - A Murder Is Announced
7.87.8 / 10 - They Do It with Mirrors
7.57.5 / 10 - A Pocket Full of Rye
7.77.7 / 10 - 4.50 from Paddington
7.67.6 / 10 - The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
7.77.7 / 10 - A Caribbean MysteryThis book
7.47.4 / 10 - At Bertram's Hotel
7.37.3 / 10 - Nemesis
7.67.6 / 10 - Sleeping Murder
7.67.6 / 10
On screen
This book has been adapted for the screen once.
- TV filmA Caribbean MysteryIMDb
Adaptation data: Wikidata · On screen →
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.2 across 137 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 48% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Crime & mystery average of 7.6. That is how 7.4 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.8 | 11 | 8% |
| Hardcover | 7.2 | 126 | 92% |
Frequently asked
How long is A Caribbean Mystery?
It has 224 pages — shorter than 95% of the ranked books in Crime & mystery.
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