They Do It with Mirrors
- 207
- Pages
- about 4 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“They Do It with Mirrors” puts Miss Marple on the scene from the first pages of a short, solidly made mystery. The fifth of Agatha Christie’s twelve Marple novels runs barely over two hundred pages, mysterious in mood and at moments moving. Some readers find that the interest gathers only in the later chapters, and others feel Miss Marple’s reasoning is harder to follow here than in her other cases.
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About the book
They Do It with Mirrors is a mystery novel by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1952 under the title of Murder with Mirrors and in UK by the Collins Crime Club on 17 November that year under Christie's original title. The US edition retailed at $2.50 and the UK edition at ten shillings and sixpence (10/6). The book features her detective Miss Marple.
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 MirrorsThis book
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 Murder
7.67.6 / 10
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.3 across 127 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 46% 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 | 8.7 | 9 | 7% |
| Hardcover | 7.2 | 118 | 93% |
Frequently asked
How long is They Do It with Mirrors?
It has 207 pages — shorter than 97% of the ranked books in Crime & mystery.
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