{"id":423,"date":"2006-05-28T17:53:22","date_gmt":"2006-05-28T21:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=423"},"modified":"2024-03-24T21:46:44","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T01:46:44","slug":"christie_vicarage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2006\/05\/christie_vicarage\/","title":{"rendered":"Christie, Agatha: <cite>Murder at the Vicarage<\/cite> (radio play, text)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Agatha Christie radio plays are well-suited for car trips to Massachusetts; I listened to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.steelypips.org\/weblog\/2006\/05\/christie_orientexpress.php\"><cite>Murder on the Orient Express<\/cite><\/a> on the way there, and to <strong><cite>Murder at the Vicarage<\/cite><\/strong> on the way back. This was the first Miss Marple novel: a shooting death next door provides her with an opportunity to test her puzzle-solving intuitions on a big mystery.<\/p>\n<p>The tale is moderately complicated, and perhaps it was a mistake to leave it, the unfamiliar one of the two plays, for the return trip when I was more tired. At any rate, I had to check the text out of the library before I fully understood the chain of reasoning in one area. (Having done so, mind, I&#8217;m not particularly impressed with the construction of the mystery; but that&#8217;s easy enough to say in retrospect, because I certainly didn&#8217;t spot it at the time.) In the middle ranks of the adaptations so far, I&#8217;d say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agatha Christie radio plays are well-suited for car trips to Massachusetts; I listened to Murder on the Orient Express on the way there, and to Murder at the Vicarage on the way back. This was the first Miss Marple novel: a shooting death next door provides her with an opportunity to test her puzzle-solving intuitions &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2006\/05\/christie_vicarage\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Christie, Agatha: <cite>Murder at the Vicarage<\/cite> (radio play, text)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,106,6,111],"tags":[165],"class_list":["post-423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-miss-marple","category-mystery","category-radio-plays","tag-christie-agatha"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2901,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions\/2901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}