The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
- 351
- Pages
- about 6 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side” is a cosy, cleverly clued Miss Marple mystery. In St Mary Mead, Christie lays the clues in plain view, and the answer looks obvious only once it has been explained. Some readers are fond of Miss Marple here and of the characters around her. For some, though, it is slower than other Christie novels, with a fairly simple plot.
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About the book
The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side, a mystery novel by Agatha Christie, was published in the UK in 1962 and a year later in the US under the title The Mirror Crack'd. The story features amateur detective Miss Marple solving a mystery in St Mary Mead. The central plot device providing motivation for the initial murder derives from a real-life event in the life of the American actress Gene Tierney.
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 SideThis book
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 Murder
7.67.6 / 10
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.7 across 129 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 7.7 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.9 | 18 | 14% |
| Hardcover | 7.5 | 111 | 86% |
Frequently asked
How long is The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side?
It has 351 pages — shorter than 74% of the ranked books in Crime & mystery.
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