description A Caribbean Mystery Overview
A Caribbean Mystery is a 1964 detective novel by Agatha Christie featuring the elderly amateur investigator Miss Marple. While staying at a Caribbean resort, Marple listens to Major Palgrave begin a story about a murderer, but he abruptly changes the subject and is found dead the following day. Her inquiry connects the death with other suspicious events among the resort's guests and staff, adapting Christie's closed-circle mystery structure to a tropical hotel setting.
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What clue does Major Palgrave almost show Miss Marple?
Major Palgrave begins telling Marple about a murderer and reaches for a photograph in his wallet. He abruptly changes the subject after noticing someone nearby, and his death soon turns that interrupted story into a crucial clue.
Where does A Caribbean Mystery take place?
Miss Marple is staying at the fictional Golden Palm Hotel on the Caribbean island of St Honoré. The tropical resort setting contrasts with the English village of St Mary Mead but gives her another small community to observe.
Who helps Miss Marple investigate Major Palgrave's death?
She forms an uneasy alliance with the wealthy and abrasive Jason Rafiel. Rafiel later becomes important again in Nemesis, where he leaves Marple instructions for another investigation.
Was A Caribbean Mystery adapted for television?
Yes, Joan Hickson starred in a 1989 BBC adaptation produced as part of Agatha Christie's Miss Marple. Julia McKenzie later played Marple in another television adaptation for ITV.
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