The Body in the Library

1942 Miss Marple novel by Agatha Christie

This article is about a novel. For the film, see The Body in the Library (film).

The Body in the Library

Dust-jacket illustration of the US (true first) edition. See Publication history (below) for UK first edition jacket image.

Author| Agatha Christie
Language| English
Genre| Crime novel
Publisher| Dodd, Mead and Company

Publication date

| February 1942
Publication place| United Kingdom
Media type| Print (hardback & paperback)
Pages| 245 (first edition, hardcover)
Preceded by| N or M? (publication)
The Murder at the Vicarage (series)
Followed by| Five Little Pigs (publication)
The Moving Finger (series)

The Body in the Library is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in February 1942[1] and in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in May of the same year.[2] The US edition retailed at $2.00[1] and the UK edition at seven shillings and sixpence.[2] The novel features her fictional amateur detective Miss Marple.

The novel concerns the murders of two teenaged girls of outwardly similar appearance. One was an 18-year-old dancer, and the other was a 16-year-old Girl Guide with aspirations to an acting career. Jane Marple eventually uncovers the murderer. The story begins at St Mary Mead, the setting of the first Marple novel.

Contemporary reviewers liked the shrewd feminine viewpoint, though missing Poirot.[3][4] Robert Barnard praised the novel for its relative realism, comparing it with the lack of realism in P.D. James' novel An Unsuitable Job for a Woman.[5]

## Plot summary

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The maid at Gossington Hall wakes Mrs Bantry; "There is a body in the library!" she cries. Dolly Bantry then wakes her husband, Colonel Arthur Bantry, and tells him to go downstairs. He finds the dead body of a young woman on the hearth rug in the library. She had been painted with heavy makeup, has platinum-blonde hair, and a silver-spangled dress. The colonel then contacts the police, and Mrs. Bantry calls her friend Miss Jane Marple. The police investigators include Colonel Melchett and Inspector Slack.

Trying to identify this dead young woman, Melchett heads to the nearby cottage of Basil Blake, but Blake's girlfriend Dinah Lee, a platinum blonde, is very much alive and arrives at the house while Melchett is interviewing Blake. Dr Haydock's autopsy reveals that the young woman, healthy but not fully mature, died between 10 pm and 12 midnight on the previous evening, had been drugged and then strangled, and was "virgo intacta". Miss Marple notices that the appearance of this girl is not right, from her bitten fingernails to her old dress. She shares these observations with Dolly.

At the Majestic Hotel in Danemouth, hotel guest Conway Jefferson reports Ruby Keene, an 18-year-old dancer, as missing. Josie Turner, an employee at the hotel, identifies the body at Gossington Hall as that of her cousin Ruby. Guests report seeing Ruby as late as 11 pm dancing with George Bartlett, but she did not appear for her dance demonstration at midnight. Jefferson tells police he planned to adopt Ruby and has revised his will to favour her.

Dolly and Miss Marple move to the Majestic to investigate further. Jefferson calls Sir Henry Clithering, a former senior police officer, to join the investigation. Sir Henry sees Miss Marple at the hotel and in turn invites her to investigate.

Jefferson made large financial settlements for his children at the time each married. Then his wife, son, and daughter were killed in an aeroplane crash eight years earlier. The three grieving survivors – son-in-law Mark, daughter-in-law Adelaide, and Jefferson – make up a household. They were playing bridge that evening with Josie. Police initially rule out Mark and Adelaide, thinking each one is financially secure. But both are short of money, as Slack's investigation and Adelaide's conversation with Dolly reveal.

George Bartlett's burned-out car is found with a charred corpse inside. From one shoe and one button, the corpse is identified as that of 16-year-old Girl Guide Pamela Reeves, reported missing by her parents the previous night.

The police ask Miss Marple to interview the other girls at the Guides event and ask Sir Henry to question Conway's valet, Edwards. Miss Marple learns from Pamela's friend Florence that Pamela had been approached by a film producer and offered a screen test that evening, which was why she did not go directly home. Edwards reports that he saw a snapshot of Basil Blake fall out of Ruby's handbag while she was with Jefferson, which points to Blake. Slack had already found the hearth rug from the Blake home dumped.

Miss Marple believes that she knows who the murderer is and seeks proof of her deduction. She visits Dinah Lee; when Basil returns home, he reveals how, when he came home rather drunk after a party, he had found the corpse on his hearth rug around midnight. Not liking Col Bantry much, he moved the corpse to the Bantry home. He insists he did not kill the girl, but the police arrest him.

Back at the hotel, Miss Marple asks the Bantrys to find a marriage record at Somerset House. She asks Sir Henry to approach Jefferson, who agrees to tell Mark and Adelaide that he will change his will the next day, leaving his money to a hostel in London. Sir Henry alerts the police and shows them a record revealing a marriage between Mark and Josie. At 3 am, an intruder enters Jefferson's bedroom, and Josie Turner is caught in the act before she can harm him with a syringe filled with digitalin.

Miss Marple explains her thinking to Jefferson and the police. The body in the library was Pamela Reeves, made up to look more or less like Ruby, with her bitten fingernails giving away her youth. Ruby was the one burned in the car. Thus the time-related alibis at the hotel were useless. Miss Marple did not believe Josie's identification of the corpse ("people are far too trusting for this wicked world") and sensed a plan gone awry.

She suspected that Mark and Josie were married. Besides wanting Jefferson dead, upon learning that he planned to adopt Ruby, they made the double murder plan. Mark lured Pamela to the hotel for the fictitious screen test. Josie dressed her, dyed her hair, made her up to resemble Ruby, then drugged her. During the bridge game, Mark took a break and took the drugged Pamela to Blake's home, where he strangled her with her belt. Just before midnight, when Ruby went up to change for the exhibition dance, Josie followed and killed her. After the midnight dance, she took Ruby, dressed in Pamela's clothes, in Bartlett's car to the quarry where she set fire to the car. During the police interrogation, Mark breaks down and confesses all the details.

Adelaide says she has agreed to marry her long-time suitor, Hugo, which pleases Jefferson. His new will settles cash on Adelaide and leaves the rest to her son Peter.

## Characters

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* Miss Marple: resident of the village of Saint Mary Mead who has much experience in solving murders.
* Colonel Melchett: Chief Constable of Radfordshire, where the first body is found.
* Dolly Bantry: a friend of her village neighbour Miss Marple.
* Colonel Arthur Bantry: retired soldier, husband of Dolly, and owner of extensive property.
* Inspector Slack: investigates both murders and makes an arrest. Despite his last name, he is thorough in his work.
* Dr Haydock: doctor who performs the post-mortem on the first body, found in the Bantrys' library. Appearing in several Marple cases.
* Conway Jefferson: wealthy man staying at the Majestic Hotel with his son-in-law, daughter-in-law and step-grandson. He lost his legs in an aeroplane crash, the same crash in which he lost his wife Margaret, son Frank, and daughter Rosamund some years earlier. He is an old friend of the Bantrys.
* Mark Gaskell: Rosamund Jefferson's widower. He is a smooth-talking and handsome man, a gambler by personality. He lives with his father-in-law in the shared grief after the plane crash, but his father-in-law never really liked his daughter's choice of husband.
* Adelaide Jefferson: Frank Jefferson's widow. She has a son, Peter Carmody, who is aged 9. Peter was born after the death of her first husband, Mike Carmody. She is a good mother and a reliable woman.
* Edwards: valet to Conway Jefferson. He agrees to speak with Clithering, who will share only the needed information with police.
* Ruby Keene: a dancer using that stage name, born Rosy Legge. Conway Jefferson likes her, going so far as to say that he will adopt her and make her his heir once he alters his will. She was raised poor, and her outward appearance was like his daughter Rosamund. She was unlike Rosamund in personality, for Ruby was a gold-digger.
* Josie Turner: Ruby's cousin, a professional dancer, who asked Ruby to come to the hotel to take her place on the dance floor while her ankle heals after an injury. She is shrewd, practical, and wants money.
* Raymond Starr: born Thomas Ramon Starr. He works as the tennis professional and dancer at the Majestic Hotel. He hopes to woo Adelaide, once she is ready to consider remarriage; in this he loses out, and is gracious about the loss.
* Sir Henry Clithering: retired head of Scotland Yard and friend to Miss Marple. He is called to help in the investigation by his friend Conway Jefferson.
* Superintendent Harper: from the police in Glenshire, where the hotel is located. He joins the investigation.
* Basil Blake: young man who recently moved into a cottage just outside St Mary Mead, and enjoys scorning the older generation. He works for a film studio about 30 miles away, and appears at the house mainly at weekends. Miss Marple knows of his earlier life as an ARP warden who saved lives in a burning building, getting injured in the process.
* Dinah Lee: woman with platinum blonde hair who appears at Blake's home. They are married but tell no-one in the village.
* George Bartlett: Ruby's last dance partner. He has a car parked at the hotel which is stolen and reported missing the morning after Ruby's murder. He is a shy man.
* Pamela Reeves: local girl, aged 16, a Girl Guide. She attended a Guides event on the night Ruby was murdered; her parents reported her missing to the police at 9 pm, hours after she was due home. The next day, she is named as the corpse found in Bartlett's stolen and burned car.
* Florence Small: Pamela Reeves's friend, in whom she confided the story of the screen test at the hotel. Florence revealed her nervousness to Miss Marple, who chose her as the girl to ask what really happened that evening.
* Hugo McLean: long-time friend of Adelaide who wants to marry her. In the end, he does.

## Title

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In her 'Author's Foreword', Christie describes "the body in the library" as a cliché of detective fiction. She states that when writing her own variation on this theme, she decided that the library should be a completely conventional one while the body would be a highly improbable and sensational one.[6]

Another example of this cliché was included in the first episode of the second series ("And the Moonbeams Kiss the Sea") of the television series Inspector Lewis, in which the body of a handyman is found in the Bodleian Library. DS James Hathaway comments to DI Robbie Lewis, "You realise what we've got, don't you, sir. ... The body in the library."

Yet more recently, in Philip Pullman's novel La Belle Sauvage, published in 2017, the protagonist borrows a book titled The Body in the Library.

This novel can be considered a conscious reworking of the genre.[citation needed]

## Literary significance and reception

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Maurice Willson Disher of The Times Literary Supplement was impressed in his review of 16 May 1942 with the female view of life injected into the solution of the crimes. "Some devoted souls may sigh for Hercule Poirot, but there are bound to be others who will be glad to find his place taken in the 'new Agatha Christie' by Miss Marple. What this relief signifies is that professional detectives are no match for elderly spinsters (not all so elderly), with some training in looking under the antimacassar, who are now very much in fashion. Even while making full allowance for this we find it hard not to be impressed by old-maid logic. When Miss Marple says, 'The dress was all wrong,' she is plainly observing facts hidden from the masculine eye – facts which are of a very lively interest. The Body in the Library should turn Hendon College co-educational."[3]

Maurice Richardson was not as impressed with Christie's efforts in his 17 May 1942 review in The Observer when he concluded: "Ingenious, of course, but interest is rather diffuse and the red herrings have lost their phosphorescence."[7]

An unnamed reviewer in the Toronto Daily Star (21 March 1942) wrote that "It doesn't take long to read this one, but the two killings in it are made so mysterious that you will not want to lay the book down until the killer is caught." The reviewer concludes, "Police do a lot of probing, but it is the shrewd reasoning – intuition perhaps – of Jane Marple that finds the missing link and discloses a diabolical plot."[4]

Robert Barnard, writing in 1990, had a positive view of this novel. He calls the plot situation classic rather than clichéd. It was a "bravura performance on a classic situation". The shift of locations of action, from Miss Marple's village to a seaside resort hotel, were good for the story, "St Mary Mead regulars figure in the case, pleasantly diversified by fashionable seaside hotel guests and the film crowd." The question he raised involves the likelihood of the crimes and the manner of solving them, which he found better than a mystery written over 30 years later by another author, saying that "If you think what happens to the body after death is unlikely, try the more 'realistic' P.D. James' An Unsuitable Job for a Woman, published 30 years later."[5]

## Allusions

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In Chapter 8, the author gives herself a mention from the mouth of the young boy, Peter Carmody. Explaining that he enjoys reading detective stories, Peter says that he has the autographs of Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, John Dickson Carr, and H. C. Bailey.

In Chapter 9, Colonel Melchett states that "there's still one thing to be done. Cherchez l'homme." It is referred to as a joke in the book, and is possibly a reference to Hercule Poirot, Christie's other famous sleuth. However, it is more likely a reference to the popular phrase cherchez la femme, meaning that there is frequently a woman behind a man's behaviour and motives in detective stories; since in this novel the victim was a girl, who was presumed to have a male lover, the phrase was changed jokingly by the detective.

While explaining how she concluded who the murderers were and how the widowed Mr Jefferson became so quickly enamoured of a girl while knowing so little of her, Miss Marple mentions the old story The King and the Beggar-maid as a model for instant emotional reaction. All the other characters in the novel she finds to have acted like someone she knew from life in her village.

In Christie's Cards on the Table, published six years earlier, Anne Meredith knows Ariadne Oliver as the writer of a book called The Body in the Library.

## Film, TV, radio or theatrical adaptations

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### Television

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#### BBC adaptation

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The 1984 television film The Body in the Library was part of the BBC series of Miss Marple, with Joan Hickson making the first of her appearances in the role of Jane Marple. The adaptation was transmitted in three parts between 26 and 28 December 1984, and only had a few changes made to it from the novel:

* The period setting has been moved to after the Second World War.
* The character of Superintendent Harper was omitted.
* The discovery of George Bartlett's destroyed car was turned into an entire sub-plot: it is found by Malcolm, a boy with learning difficulties from St Mary Mead (who was not in the original novel) who struggles to communicate his discovery – the first part ends with Malcolm confirming that there is a corpse in the car; the car itself is changed from a Minoan 14 to an equally fictitious Vauxhall Coaster.
* In the novel, we do not know that the police directly suspect Basil Blake until the chapter where he is arrested. In this adaptation, he becomes suspected by the police much earlier when they find out he lied about his whereabouts; there is an additional scene where he is lured to the police station to give a statement so that the police can analyse his car; he also tells his wife the truth about the body being in his house before Miss Marple visits him.
* The amount of money left to Ruby was changed from £50,000 to £100,000.

#### ITV adaptation

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A second adaptation of the novel was made in 2004 by ITV, as part of its ongoing Agatha Christie's Marple series. This adaptation starred Geraldine McEwan as Miss Marple, James Fox as Colonel Bantry, Joanna Lumley as Dolly Bantry, Ian Richardson as Conway Jefferson, and Jamie Theakston as Mark Gaskell. While this adaptation was largely faithful to the original novel, there were several changes:

* Josie's accomplice and lover is Jefferson's daughter-in-law Adelaide, not his son-in-law Mark Gaskell as in the novel.
* The date is changed to after the Second World War, with two related changes:
* Conway's wife and children were killed by a V-2 strike, not in a plane crash (this is shown in a prologue scene).
* Mark, Frank, and Peter's father Mike were all RAF pilots in the war.
* The characters of Clithering, Edwards, and McLean are omitted.
* Conway sees the snapshot of Blake that falls out of Ruby's handbag, as in the previous adaptation.
* The drugging of the first victim is revealed later.
* Miss Marple's explanation of the crime comes before the trap to catch the killers, rather than after.

#### French adaptation

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A third adaptation appeared as the ninth episode of French television series Les Petits Meurtres d'Agatha Christie. The episode first aired in 2011.

#### Korean adaptation

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A fourth adaptation aired as part of the 2018 Korean television series, Ms. Ma, Nemesis.

### Radio

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A radio adaptation was produced for BBC Radio 4 in 1999.[8] The production was dramatised by Michael Bakewell and directed by Enyd Williams.

The cast list featured June Whitfield as Miss Marple, Richard Todd as Colonel Melchett, Pauline Jameson as Dolly Bantry, Jack Watling as Colonel Bantry, Graham Crowden as Sir Henry Clithering, and Ben Crowe as George Bartlett.

## Publication history

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Dustjacket illustration of the UK first edition; the book was first published in the US

* 1941, Dodd Mead and Company (New York), February 1942, Hardback, 245 pp
* 1941, Collins Crime Club (London), May 1942, Hardback, 160 pp
* 1946, Pocket Books (New York), Paperback, (Pocket number 341), 152 pp
* 1953, Penguin Books, Paperback, (Penguin number 924), 190 pp
* 1959, Pan Books, Paperback, 157 pp (Great Pan G221)
* 1962, Fontana Books (Imprint of HarperCollins), Paperback, 191 pp
* 1972, Ulverscroft Large-print Edition, Hardcover, 305 pp; ISBN 0-85456-102-1
* 2005, Marple Facsimile edition (Facsimile of 1942 UK first edition), 7 November 2005, Hardcover; ISBN 0-00-720844-8

The novel was first serialised in the US in The Saturday Evening Post in seven parts from 10 May (Volume 213, Number 45) to 21 June 1941 (Volume 213, Number 51) with illustrations by Hy Rubin.

## References

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1. ^ a b Marcum, J S (May 2007). "American Tribute to Agatha Christie: The Classic Years: 1940 – 1944". Retrieved 3 January 2020.
2. ^ a b Peers, Chris; Spurrier, Ralph; Sturgeon, Jamie (March 1999). Collins Crime Club – A checklist of First Editions (second ed.). Dragonby Press. p. 15.
3. ^ a b Disher, Maurice Willson (16 May 1942). "Review". The Times Literary Supplement. p. 249.
4. ^ a b "Review". Toronto Daily Star. 21 March 1942. p. 11.
5. ^ a b Barnard, Robert (1990). A Talent to Deceive – an appreciation of Agatha Christie (Revised ed.). Fontana Books. p. 189\. ISBN 0-00-637474-3.
6. ^ Cook, Michael (12 October 2011). Narratives of Enclosure in Detective Fiction: The Locked Room Mystery. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 43–44\. ISBN 978-0-230-31373-6. Retrieved 3 January 2020.
7. ^ Richardson, Maurice (17 May 1942). "Review". The Observer. p. 3.
8. ^ "The Body in the Library, Miss Marple – BBC Radio 4 Extra". BBC. Retrieved 25 September 2017.

## External links

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* The Body in the Library at the official Agatha Christie website
* The Body in the Library (1984) at IMDb
* Marple: The Body in the Library (2004) at IMDb

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* 4.50 from Paddington (1957)
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