Talk:Sleeping Murder

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Although the 2005 television adaptation is entertaining it keeps only the thread of the plot, inventing characters and incidents and discarding others. The theatrical troupe, "The Funnybones", which plays an important part in the adaptation,--Saxophobia 00:01, 26 June 2006 (UTC) is not in the novel

I don't think this is a very well written article. I do not think the author correctly interprets all parts of the novel either.

[edit] Miss Marple

The current article says: "Christie wrote Sleeping Murder during World War II as a fitting end to Miss Marple's series of novels." Do we actually have any knowledge/documentation that it was ever intended to be an 'end' to the Miss Marple series? To me, it doesn't seem to have any 'this is the end' feeling about it. I wonder if the person writing that part of the article got it confused up with 'Curtain'. To me, Nemesis, which actually WAS the last Miss Marple novel, has a much more valedictory feeling about it. Marieblasdell 02:17, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

I agree...it doesn't really have that end feel to it. Plus, perhaps a section covering the tv version's plot would be nice? As its so different...--Snewo 03:51, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

I'll second that. There is absolutely nothing about this book which suggests it was ever intended as the last Marple novel. Anyone who isn't familiar with the Christie chronology would not be able to tell this was the last book just by reading it. As for why Christie withheld it from publication for 30+ years, we can only speculate.Sandmaster (talk) 00:33, 30 December 2007 (UTC)