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FROM: Andrew Smith <[removed]@mail.wrl.org>
REC'D: 1/13/05, 8:46 AM

A patron is looking for a Miss Marple story described as *the* favorite
among Agatha Christie fans. Unfortunately, she doesn't even remember
where she saw the ?survey? results, only that she thought it was
titled something like "the vine-covered cottage". She read Philomel
Cottage at my suggestion, but is convinced that this other story is still
out there.

Does anyone remember seeing such a survey of Christie fans? Does anyone
know of a story called The Vine-Covered Cottage that FirstSearch, The
Scribner Writers Series, Amazon, and our catalog might have missed?

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Andrew Smith [removed]@mail.wrl.org
Readers Services Librarian
Williamsburg Regional Library (757) 259-4050
7770 Croaker Road
Williamsburg, VA 23188 www.wrl.org/bookweb
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FROM: "Rebecca Muller" <[removed]@CHESAPEAKE.LIB.VA.US>
REC'D: 1/13/05, 11:09 AM

Is she sure it's a Miss Marple story? The "favorites" tend to be And
Then There Were None, The Murder of Roger Ackeroyde, and Murder on the
Orient Express. Maybe she wants The Murder at the Vicarage which seems
to be the most popular Miss Marple story (I think it was also the first
one), and at least one publication has a cottage on the cover.

Rebecca Muller
Indian River Library
Chesapeake, VA

>>> [removed]@mail.wrl.org 1/12/2005 7:48:13 PM >>>
A patron is looking for a Miss Marple story described as *the* favorite

among Agatha Christie fans. Unfortunately, she doesn't even remember
where she saw the ?survey? results, only that she thought it was
titled something like "the vine-covered cottage". She read Philomel
Cottage at my suggestion, but is convinced that this other story is
still
out there.

Does anyone remember seeing such a survey of Christie fans? Does
anyone
know of a story called The Vine-Covered Cottage that FirstSearch, The
Scribner Writers Series, Amazon, and our catalog might have missed?

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Andrew Smith [removed]@mail.wrl.org
Readers Services Librarian
Williamsburg Regional Library (757) 259-4050
7770 Croaker Road
Williamsburg, VA 23188 www.wrl.org/bookweb
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FROM: "Dini, Karen" <[removed]@addison.lib.il.us>
REC'D: 1/13/05, 11:56 AM

This is really a long shot, but in the Agatha Christie novel Nemesis the
body is found under vines that were lovingly planted over the body years
before on a cottage estate. I don't know if it's a "favorite" among
most fans, but it is a favorite of mine!

Karen Dini
Asst Dept Head, Adult Services
Addison Public Library
Addison, IL 60101
[removed]@addison.lib.il.us

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From: [removed]@maillist.webrary.org
[[removed]@maillist.webrary.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Smith
Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 6:48 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Unknown Agatha Christie Story - Vine Covered Cottage

A patron is looking for a Miss Marple story described as *the* favorite
among Agatha Christie fans. Unfortunately, she doesn't even remember
where she saw the ?survey? results, only that she thought it was
titled something like "the vine-covered cottage". She read Philomel
Cottage at my suggestion, but is convinced that this other story is
still
out there.

Does anyone remember seeing such a survey of Christie fans? Does anyone

know of a story called The Vine-Covered Cottage that FirstSearch, The
Scribner Writers Series, Amazon, and our catalog might have missed?

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Andrew Smith [removed]@mail.wrl.org
Readers Services Librarian
Williamsburg Regional Library (757) 259-4050
7770 Croaker Road
Williamsburg, VA 23188 www.wrl.org/bookweb
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FROM: Molly Williams <[removed]@waterborolibrary.org>
REC'D: 1/13/05, 12:12 PM

Murder at the Vicarage would be my guess, too, based on the cover and
the fact that I believe there is a vine-covered cottage described
therein. I can check it in a few minutes (when I go upstairs to my
private AC collection). I'm a big fan of Agatha Christie (though Poirot
is more my line of country) and I can say with certainty that there is
no AC book with "vine covered" in the title, and I don't believe there
is a story of that name, either, even with the differences between
English and American titles.

One Miss Marple collection on DVD (collection 2) has a popular review of
it that mentions carrying a leather suitcase into a vine-covered cottage
... I think this pertains to Murder at the Vicarage, but Miss Marple is
generally associated with such bucolic settings ...

~ Molly

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Molly Williams, Volunteer Web-Tender,
Waterboro Public Library (Maine): http://www.waterborolibrary.org/
... h20boro lib blog: http://www.waterborolibrary.org/blog.htm

FROM: Molly Williams <[removed]@waterborolibrary.org>
REC'D: 1/13/05, 12:18 PM

I just re-read Nemesis a few months ago. The body (SPOILER!) was buried
by the greenhouse, I believe, and a quick-flowering shrub (a
polygonatum) had been allowed to grow rampant over it. It would be a
long shot but possible ...

~ Molly

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Molly Williams, Volunteer Web-Tender,
Waterboro Public Library (Maine): http://www.waterborolibrary.org/
... h20boro lib blog: http://www.waterborolibrary.org/blog.htm

Dini, Karen wrote:

>This is really a long shot, but in the Agatha Christie novel Nemesis the
>body is found under vines that were lovingly planted over the body years
>before on a cottage estate. I don't know if it's a "favorite" among
>most fans, but it is a favorite of mine!
>
>Karen Dini
>Asst Dept Head, Adult Services
>Addison Public Library
>Addison, IL 60101
[removed]@addison.lib.il.us
>
>

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