Sleeping Murder
- 242
- Pages
- about 4.5 h
- Reading time
- Series 1987 +1
- On screen
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Our view
“Sleeping Murder” makes a fitting last case for Miss Marple: a compact mystery in a reflective key. It is the twelfth and final novel about Agatha Christie’s detective, a little over 240 pages long. Some readers who first knew the story from a screen adaptation find the book better still. Anyone who has followed Miss Marple this far should not skip her farewell.
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About the book
Sleeping Murder: Miss Marple's Last Case is a mystery novel by Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in October 1976 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year. The UK edition retailed for £3.50 and the US edition for $7.95.
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 - Nemesis
7.67.6 / 10 - Sleeping MurderThis book
7.67.6 / 10
On screen
This book has been adapted for the screen 2 times — from 1987 to 2006.
Adaptation data: Wikidata · On screen →
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.5 across 128 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 47% 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 | 8.4 | 15 | 12% |
| Hardcover | 7.3 | 113 | 88% |
Frequently asked
How long is Sleeping Murder?
It has 242 pages — shorter than 91% of the ranked books in Crime & mystery.
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