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''The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side'', a novel by
Agatha Christie Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, (; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictiona ...
, was published in the UK in 1962 and a year later in the US under the title ''The Mirror Crack'd''. The story features amateur detective
Miss Marple Miss Marple is a fictional character in Agatha Christie's crime novels and short stories. Jane Marple lives in the village of St. Mary Mead and acts as an amateur consulting detective. Often characterized as an elderly spinster, she is one of Chr ...
solving a mystery in
St. Mary Mead St Mary Mead is a fictional village created by popular crime fiction author Dame Agatha Christie. The quaint, sleepy village was home to the renowned detective spinster Miss Marple. However, Christie first described a village of that name pri ...
.


Plot summary

Jane Marple falls while walking in St. Mary Mead. She is helped by Heather Badcock, who brings her into her own home to rest. Over a cup of tea, Heather tells Miss Marple how she once met the American actress Marina Gregg, who recently moved into the area and bought Gossington Hall from Miss Marple's friend Dolly Bantry. Marina and her latest husband, film producer Jason Rudd, host a fête in honour of
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. Guests include Mrs Bantry, actress Lola Brewster, Marina's friend Ardwyck Fenn, and Heather with her husband Arthur. Heather corners Marina and launches into a long story about how they met years ago while Marina was visiting Bermuda, where Heather worked at the time. Heather had been ill, but was such a big fan of Marina that she left her sickbed to meet her favourite star and get her autograph. Mrs Bantry, standing nearby, notices a strange look cross Marina's face during Heather's monologue. A short while later, Heather collapses and dies. When Mrs Bantry recounts the events to Miss Marple, she uses lines from the poem "The Lady of Shalott" (in which a curse falls upon the heroine of the poem) to describe the look she observed on Marina's face. Detective Inspector Frank Cornish of the local police begins to investigate the case, learning that the drug had been in a
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given to her by Marina after she spilled her own drink. Cornish hands the case over to Chief Inspector Dermot Craddock, of
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, when the latter is assigned to it in response to the county's request for assistance. Craddock delves into the complicated past of the presumed target, Marina. Desperate to have a child, she had adopted three before giving birth to a mentally disabled son and suffering a nervous breakdown as a result. One of the adopted children, Margot Bence, was at Gossington Hall on the day of the fête. Despite bad feeling towards her adoptive mother she denies putting the drug into Marina's drink. Two more people are killed while the investigation continues: Ella Zielinsky, Jason's social secretary, dies after the atomizer she uses for her
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is poisoned with cyanide; and Giuseppe, Marina's butler, is shot that night after spending the day in London and depositing £500 into his bank account. Ardwyck Fenn tells Craddock he received a phone call days before, accusing him of killing Heather, and that he recognized the anonymous caller as Zielinsky when she sneezed. Meanwhile, Marina and Jason both suspect that Marina is being targeted for death; she has been receiving a series of threatening notes, and a cup of coffee served to her proves to contain
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. Miss Marple's cleaner, Cherry Baker, tells Miss Marple that her friend Gladys Dixon, who was a server at Gossington Hall on the day of the fête, believes Marina deliberately spilled Heather's drink, and that she was going to meet Giuseppe before he died. After Gladys suddenly departs for a holiday in Bournemouth, Miss Marple travels to Gossington Hall to discover Marina has died in her sleep from an overdose. Miss Marple talks to Jason and explains to him and DI Craddock how she has deduced that Marina must have been the murderer. Heather had been sick with
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when she sought Marina's autograph in Bermuda. Marina, in the early stages of pregnancy at the time, had contracted the disease, which led to her baby being born disabled, and her own subsequent nervous breakdown. The look on Marina's face, observed by Mrs Bantry at the fete, was triggered by Marina looking at a picture of a Madonna and Child on the wall behind Heather, and finally realising what had happened. Overcome with emotion, Marina put the Calmo in her own daiquiri, jolted Heather's arm to make her spill her drink, and then gave Heather the drugged cocktail as a replacement. To cover her crime, Marina tried to convince everyone she had been the target of a murder attempt, writing the threatening notes herself and putting the arsenic into her own coffee. She killed Ella and Giuseppe after they guessed her involvement and Giuseppe blackmailed her. Miss Marple had sent Gladys away to protect her from becoming Marina's next victim. Miss Marple implies that she believes Jason administered Marina's overdose to prevent her from taking another life. He simply comments on his wife's beauty and the suffering she endured as the story ends.


The novel's title

The title comes from the poem ''
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'' by
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. :Out flew the web and floated wide- :The mirror crack'd from side to side; :"The curse is come upon me," cried :The Lady of Shalott.


Characters

*
Miss Marple Miss Marple is a fictional character in Agatha Christie's crime novels and short stories. Jane Marple lives in the village of St. Mary Mead and acts as an amateur consulting detective. Often characterized as an elderly spinster, she is one of Chr ...
: an old lady in St Mary Mead who is recovering from an illness. * Mrs Cherry Baker: Miss Marple's house cleaner. * Jim Baker: Cherry's husband, who does odd jobs for Miss Marple. * Miss Knight: Miss Marple's carer, sent by Marple's nephew
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, to help during her recuperation. * Dolly Bantry: Miss Marple's friend, present at the fête at Gossington Hall. She first appeared in the novel ''
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''. * Dr Haydock: Miss Marple's physician in St Mary Mead. He first appeared in '' Murder at the Vicarage''. * Marina Gregg: a middle-aged film star, who married many times and recently settled in England with her husband to make a film together. Her mood swings from happy to upset, which her husband thinks is tied to her acting. * Jason Rudd: Gregg's husband, a film director. * Giuseppe: a butler at Gossington Hall. * Dr Gilchrist: Gregg's physician, who lives at the Hall. * Ella Zielinsky: Rudd's secretary. * Gladys Dixon: a seamstress who works at the film studio's canteen. * Heather Badcock: a volunteer for the St John Ambulance corps. * Arthur Badcock: Heather's husband, who works in real estate. He was married to Gregg before she became a film star and later changed his name. * Margot Bence: a portrait photographer at the fête. She was adopted by Gregg before Gregg became pregnant. * Lola Brewster: an American actress who arrives unexpectedly at the party. She was married to one of Gregg's ex-husbands. * Ardwyck Fenn: an American man who was once wildly in love with Marina Gregg. * Dermot Craddock: Chief Inspector at Scotland Yard, sent to St Mary Mead to solve Badcock's murder. He is a godson of
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, who is a close friend of Marple. Craddock often discusses the case with her. He was introduced in '' A Murder Is Announced''. * William Tiddler: a sergeant assisting Craddock, who calls him "Tom" because he likes the
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. * Frank Cornish: a local police inspector.


Developing the character of Marina Gregg

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Norman Gregg Sir Norman McAlister Gregg, (7 March 1892 – 27 July 1966) was an Australian ophthalmologist, who discovered that rubella suffered by a pregnant woman could cause birth defects in her child ( congenital rubella syndrome). Early life and educat ...
, and described this as "one of hristie'smost subtle clues to identify the murderer". The official site of the Agatha Christie estate suggests that, in writing Gregg, Christie was "influenced" by the life of American actress
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. Tierney contracted
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while pregnant with her first child, during her only appearance at the
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in June 1943. The baby developed
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and was born prematurely, underweight and needing a total blood transfusion. Doctors told the parents on the day of the birth that the premature birth and the child's mental and physical disabilities were due to the mother contracting German measles in the first four months of the pregnancy; this was very hard news to absorb. The deaf, partially blind and developmentally disabled child was later institutionalised in a
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. About two years after that birth a woman asked Tierney for an autograph at a garden party. The woman said she had, while ill with German measles, skipped quarantine in order to visit the Hollywood Canteen and meet Tierney. Tierney's story was publicised before the novel was written. Tierney described the event in her autobiography 16 years after Christie wrote the novel.


Publication history

* 1962, Collins Crime Club (London), 12 November 1962, hardback, 256 pp * 1963, Dodd Mead and Company (New York), September 1963, hardback, 246 pp * 1964,
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(New York), paperback * 1965, Fontana Books (imprint of
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), paperback, 192 pp * 1966, Ulverscroft
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edition, hardcover, 255 pp * 1974,
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, trade paperback, 288 pp, The ''Star Weekly Novel'', a Toronto newspaper supplement, serialised the novel in two abridged instalments from 9 to 16 March 1963 under the title ''The Mirror Crack'd'' with each issue containing a cover illustration by Gerry Sevier.


Adaptations to other media


English-language movie

The novel was adapted for a 1980 feature film with
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in the role of Miss Marple. The film's co-stars were
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as Marina and
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as Lola Brewster, and the cast also included
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and
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. The film was released as ''
The Mirror Crack'd ''The Mirror Crack'd'' is a 1980 British mystery film directed by Guy Hamilton from a screenplay by Jonathan Hales and Barry Sandler, based on Agatha Christie's Miss Marple novel ''The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side'' (1962). It stars Ange ...
'', the shortened US book title. The film changed a number of elements in the novel, including Marina's surname (she uses Rudd, not Gregg), her associates, removing the character of Giuseppe, adding death threats, amongst other modifications—which include shifting the setting to 1953, nine years before the book's publication.


BBC TV adaptation

A second adaptation of the novel was made by
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television in 1992 as part of its series ''
Miss Marple Miss Marple is a fictional character in Agatha Christie's crime novels and short stories. Jane Marple lives in the village of St. Mary Mead and acts as an amateur consulting detective. Often characterized as an elderly spinster, she is one of Chr ...
'' with the title role played by
Joan Hickson Joan Bogle Hickson, OBE (5 August 1906 – 17 October 1998) was an English actress of theatre, film and television. She was known for her role as Agatha Christie's Miss Marple in the television series ''Miss Marple''. She also narrated a number ...
(in her final performance as Jane Marple), and starring
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as Marina Gregg and
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as Lola Brewster. The only major changes are that Giuseppe is not killed, Arthur Badcock is not a former husband of Marina Gregg, Superintendent Slack and Sergeant Lake are written in, and the character of Hailey Preston is removed. The novel was the final adaptation for the BBC series ''Miss Marple''. Margaret Courtenay appears in this adaptation as Miss Knight, having previously portrayed Dolly Bantry in the 1980 feature film version.


BBC radio adaptation

A radio adaptation was made by the BBC in 1998.
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played Miss Marple, and
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Marina Gregg, in a 90-minute version by
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.


ITV adaptation

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and WGBH Boston produced another adaptation in 2010 for the ''
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'' television series, starring
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as Miss Marple, with
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reprising her role as Dolly Bantry,
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as Marina Gregg and
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as Lola Brewster. Investigating the murder along with Miss Marple is Inspector Hewitt, played by
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. This version, while ultimately faithful to Christie's original text, included a number of notable changes. Some of these changes were influenced by the changes that were made in the 1980 film adaptation: * Ella's surname is changed from Zielinsky to Blunt. The reason for her murder is changed, mixing in elements from the 1980 film and the motive for Giuseppe's murder – Ella was attempting to blackmail the killer, but kept ringing the wrong people because she knew someone at the reception had done it, until she learned something that led her to phoning Marina and pointing out what she had done. Her love of Jason remains, but there is no affair. * Giuseppe is omitted from the adaptation, and there is no reference to car-man Inch selling his business within it. * Unlike the 1980 film adaptation, only one film is being shot in England, and that focuses on
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. * Lola Brewster is married to one of Marina's old husbands, Vincent Hogg (added in the adaptation). He is a journalist, who writes a couple of pieces regarding the murders and who does not have much love of Marina; she is an actress and had competed with Marina for the love of Jason, who married the latter, leaving Lola bitter about it. Both she and Vincent attend the reception and the filming of one of Marina's scenes.


Bengali language film

Film director and screenwriter
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created a
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version of Christie's story as ''
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'', which reset the story in the film industry of
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. In this version,
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plays the ageing star Padmini, the counterpart to Christie's Marina Gregg. The 2003 movie features
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in the role of the equivalent of Miss Marple.


French television adaptation

The novel was adapted as a 2017 episode of the French television series ''
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''.


Japanese television adaptation

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adapted the novel in 2018 starring
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and
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, with the title ''Two Nights Drama Special: Murder of the Great Actress – The Mirror Crack’d From Side to Side'' ( ja, アガサ・クリスティ 二夜連続ドラマスペシャル 大女優殺人事件~鏡は横にひび割れて~) as the second night, and the first night was '' 4.50 from Paddington''. This drama changed the main role to a
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from the
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. * Cast: **
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– Chief Inspector Ryuya Shokokuji, based on
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and Dermot Craddock ** Yoshiyoshi Arakawa – Inspector Banpei Tatara **
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– Inspector Fueko Misaki **
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– Madoka Irodori, based on Marina Gregg ** Ikko Furuya – Akira Kaido, based on Jason Rudd **
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– Sagiri Asakaze, based on Lola Brewster **
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– Hiraomi Danbara, based on Ardwyck Fenn **
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– Shimeko Akada, based on Ella Zielinsky ** Tomoharu Hasegawa – Toshiro Inden, based on Giuseppe ** Ryuji Katagiri – Kansuke Aramaki, based on Dr Gilchrist **
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– Rin Kannokoji, based on Heather Badcock **
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– Koki Kannokoji, based on Arthur Badcock **
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– Kosame Taniguchi, based on Margot Bence **
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– Matsubushi Matsuda, based on Margot Bence and Gladys Dixon ** Narumi Fukuda – Hinata Hanakage, also based on Margot Bence ** Zuimaru Awashima – Sosuke Aiba, based on Donald McNeil


Korean television adaptation

The novel was also adapted as part of the Korean television series '' Ms. Ma, Nemesis''.


References


External links


''The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side''
at the official Agatha Christie website
''The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side''
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