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Inferior copy of book—doesn’t match listing photo
Where to start... This copy does NOT have the red emblem on the cover (for the “authorized” edition), even though the Amazon listing for the book showed that and advertised it as one of the “official authorized” editions. I tried re-ordering, but each of the 3 copies I received are the same—missing that emblem, a different texture of cover from that of the William Morrow imprint of HarperCollins that the “authorized” editions are (versus this one being just “HARPER”), different page texture and font density/darkness of the text, and also different weight of the book (heavier and tighter binding than the WM editions). This version of the book seems to be a print-on-demand copy. For each of the 3 copies I got, the date on the last page was different and was, in fact, the date I placed my orders (suggesting it was printed when I ordered it each time). While some people wouldn’t care about the discrepancy between the listing and what you get, it is still “false advertising” of a sort. I have all the books in the Miss Marple series before this one and wanted the editions to match (the “authorized” editions), and the WM imprint’s version is easier to read one-handed than the HARPER imprint print-on-demand version (which matters to me because the only reading time I get is when I am breastfeeding my infant). There also seemed to be some typos in this copy (although I have no way of knowing if these errors are present in other editions than this HARPER print-on-demand one), not least of which was the back cover misspelling the name of a key character: “Babcock” on the back versus “Badcock” throughout the story.The story itself was entertaining enough, although it was a bit of a bummer that Miss Marple was so seldomly directly “in” the action. It was one of the Miss Marple books that I managed to correctly guess the murderer/situation during the course of book, before the reveal (along with A Murder Is Announced, They Do It with Mirrors, and A Pocket Full of Rye), but in a way that makes it more enjoyable for me, so no complaint there. It did leave a few more open/unanswered questions at the end than I would like, similar to some of her other ones with abrupt endings, but that was my only point of dissatisfaction with the story itself besides Miss Marple being mostly confined to her house throughout.
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