Mrs McGinty's Dead
- 234
- Pages
- about 4.5 h
- Reading time
- Film 1964 +1
- On screen
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Our view
“Mrs McGinty’s Dead” is a lively village mystery that shows Poirot in fine comic form among colourful locals. Some readers single out its well-drawn characters and twists they did not see coming. Others find the suspects hard to keep apart, since several are first met only through a newspaper story. Coming from Christie’s later years, it holds up well.
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About the book
Mrs McGinty's Dead is a mystery novel by English writer Agatha Christie, first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in February 1952 and in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 3 March the same year. The US edition retailed at $2.50 and the UK edition at nine shillings and sixpence (9/6). The Detective Book Club issued an edition, also in 1952, as Blood Will Tell.
Reading order · canon of Hercule Poirot
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On screen
This book has been adapted for the screen 2 times — from 1964 to 2008.
Adaptation data: Wikidata · On screen →
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.3 across 96 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 40% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Crime & mystery average of 7.6. That is how 7.5 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.0 | 10 | 10% |
| Hardcover | 7.3 | 86 | 90% |
Frequently asked
How long is Mrs McGinty's Dead?
It has 234 pages — shorter than 93% of the ranked books in Crime & mystery.
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