Gold Digger: Played with everyone pretty much accuses Ruby Keene of being one of these, but are (grudgingly) willing to point out that there was no malice in her, as a poor girl she could hardly be faulted for not turning down the possibility of coming into a large sum of money and that the other people surrounding Conway Jefferson, much as they might not have liked the situation, weren't exactly entitled to his money either.This is how she finds that Josie Turner and Mark Gaskell are married and that they are the murderers. 'Eureka!' Moment: Basil Blake's girlfriend (actually wife) prompts Miss Marple to have one of these, by saying that all marriages are on record and can easily be verified.Raymond Starr's real name is 'Ramon' (he's Argentinian), but he changes it to 'Raymond' to make it sound more English. The police gets exceedingly annoyed trying to get anything useful out of him. The Ditz: One of the suspects, George Bartlett, is a very absent-minded and inarticulate fellow who can't seem to get to his point, and keeps on forgetting what he's been doing.Celebrity Paradox: The young son of Adelaide Jefferson namedrops several of his favourite mystery writers including.The killer was apprehended when they attempted to murder the old man that very night. Jefferson announce that he's going to donate the money he had intended to bequeath to Ruby away. Bluffing the Murderer: Miss Marple forces the killer to reveal themselves by having Mr.She chooses Hugo in the end in the BBC adaptation the triangle is Left Hanging. Betty and Veronica: Reliable Dogged Nice Guy Hugo and dashing dancer Raymond for Adelaide.Affectionate Parody: The 'body in the library' had become such a hoary old cliché of detective-fiction writing that Christie deliberately wrote The Body in the Library as the most outrageous send-up of the idea that she could manage whilst still making it a serious murder mystery.But the Bantrys' neighbour, Basil Blake, an allegedly dissolute young man involved in the movie industry, also sees himself suspected.Īdapted for TV in 1984 by the BBC and in 2004 by ITV. Jefferson, a dying millionaire who is revealed to have changed his will to include the victim as his beneficiary, in detriment to his son- and daughter-in-law. It is soon revealed the girl was a dancer at a nearby seaside hotel so Miss Marple decides to go there to talk with her colleagues and also with the elderly Mr.

Bantry, remembering her old friend Miss Marple, who is known for her deductive abilities, calls the latter so the two of them can investigate this murder alongside the local police. They have no idea who she is and how she got there.

The body of a young pretty girl, Ruby Keene, is found unexpectedly on the floor of the respectable old couple Mr. The Body in the Library is a mystery novel by Agatha Christie featuring Miss Marple and published in 1942.

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