Newlywed Gwenda Reed travels ahead of her husband to find a home for them on the south coast of England. In a short time, she finds and buys Hillside, a large old house that feels just like home. She … See more

• Gwenda Halliday Reed: 21 years old and newly married woman from New Zealand, settling in England with her new husband.
• Giles Reed: … See more

Agatha Christie wrote Curtain (Hercule Poirot's last mystery, which concludes the sleuth's career and life). Sleeping Murder, was written during World War II sometime during the Blitz, which took place between September 1940 and May 1941. Agatha Christie's literary … See more

Christie's original manuscript of Sleeping Murder was entitled Murder in Retrospect after one of the chapters in the book. When the Hercule Poirot novel Five Little Pigs was later serialised in the US in Collier's Weekly from September to November 1941, … See more

• When the police inspector sees Miss Marple he comments on a case of poison pen near Lymstock, which is the plot of The Moving Finger.
• Early in the novel, Miss Marple has a brief conversation with Colonel Arthur Bantry, her neighbour in St Mary Mead, whose … See more

George Thaw in the Daily Mirror of 22 October 1976 said, "Agatha Christie's last novel is very good. Sleeping Murder is the last of Miss Marple's excursions into detection. But perhaps it is her best. Agatha Christie wrote it years ago but if I was going to pick a … See more

Television
BBC adaptation
Sleeping Murder was filmed by the BBC as a 100-minute film in the sixth adaptation (of twelve) in the series Miss Marple See more