Murder Is Easy
- 223
- Pages
- about 4 h
- Reading time
- TV film 1982
- On screen
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Our view
The chief pleasure of Agatha Christie’s “Murder Is Easy” is its English village, crowded with eccentric suspects. Superintendent Battle appears only at the very end and plays no part in the solution. Some readers find the plot hard to believe or cannot warm to the young hero and his romance, while others enjoy that stormy love story.
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About the book
Murder Is Easy is a detective fiction novel by Agatha Christie first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in June 1939, and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in September the same year under the title Easy to Kill. Christie's Superintendent Battle has a cameo appearance at the end, but plays no part in either the solution of the mystery or the apprehension of the criminal. The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6), and the US edition at $2.
Reading order · Superintendent Battle
Full order & progress →- The Secret of ChimneysStart here
7.57.5 / 10 - The Seven Dials Mystery
7.57.5 / 10 - Murder Is EasyThis book
7.47.4 / 10 - Towards Zero
7.67.6 / 10
On screen
This book has been adapted for the screen once.
- TV filmMurder Is EasyIMDb
Adaptation data: Wikidata · On screen →
Where the score comes from
The sources average 6.9 across 93 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 39% 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 | 8.2 | 9 | 10% |
| Hardcover | 6.8 | 84 | 90% |
Frequently asked
How long is Murder Is Easy?
It has 223 pages — shorter than 95% of the ranked books in Crime & mystery.
In this book
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