 Dust-jacket illustration of the first UK edition | |
| Author | Agatha Christie |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | Not known |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Crime novel |
| Publisher | Collins Crime Club |
Publication date | October 1976 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| Pages | 224 first edition, hardback |
| ISBN | 0-00-231785-0 |
| OCLC | 2904600 |
| 823/.9/12 | |
| LC Class | PZ3.C4637 Sm PR6005.H66 |
| Preceded by | Curtain |
| Followed by | An Autobiography |
Sleeping Murder: Miss Marple's Last Case is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in October 1976[1] and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year.[2][3] The UK edition retailed for £3.50[1] and the US edition for $7.95.[3]
The book features Miss Marple. Released posthumously, it was the last published Christie novel, although not the last Miss Marple novel in order of writing. The story is explicitly set in 1944 but the first draft of the novel was possibly written during the Blitz in 1940. Miss Marple aids a young couple who choose to uncover events in the wife's past life, and not let sleeping murder lie.
- ^ a b Peers, Chris; Spurrier, Ralph; Sturgeon, Jamie (March 1999). Collins Crime Club – A checklist of First Editions (Second ed.). Dragonby Press. p. 16.
- ^ Cooper, John; Pyke, B A (1994). Detective Fiction: the collector's guide (Second ed.). Scholar Press. pp. 82, 87. ISBN 0-85967-991-8.
- ^ a b "American Tribute to Agatha Christie: Twilight Years 1968-1976". J S Marcum. May 2007. Retrieved 6 April 2020.