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The Murder at the Vicarage · Chapter

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The book is dedicated to Rosalind.

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The book is dedicated to Rosalind.

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Miss Marple’s quiet rebuttal—comparing Raymond West’s metaphor of a “stagnant pool” to his own writing—marks t…

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