Nemesis
- 237
- Pages
- about 4.5 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“Nemesis”, the last Miss Marple novel Christie wrote, lets its detective think a whole case through, and watching her do it is the pleasure. A crowd of characters arrives early, but it soon becomes clear that not all of them need remembering. Some readers find that the telling sometimes doubles back on itself and that her insights owe more to intuition than to deduction. Even a reader who guesses the culprit will want to see how she gets there.
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About the book
Nemesis is a mystery novel by Agatha Christie (1890–1976), first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 5 November 1971 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later the same year. The UK edition retailed at £1.50 and the US edition at $6.95. It was the last Miss Marple novel the author wrote, although Sleeping Murder was the last Miss Marple novel to be published.
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 Mystery
7.47.4 / 10 - At Bertram's Hotel
7.37.3 / 10 - NemesisThis book
7.67.6 / 10 - Sleeping Murder
7.67.6 / 10
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.5 across 100 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 7.6 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.2 | 11 | 11% |
| Hardcover | 7.4 | 89 | 89% |
Frequently asked
How long is Nemesis?
It has 237 pages — shorter than 92% of the ranked books in Crime & mystery.
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