Dolly Bantry enlists Miss Marple's help after she and her husband find the body of a mystery woman in their library.

The body is increasingly understood as being at the centre of colonial and post-colonial relationships and textual productions. Creating and circulating images

A young woman found murdered A scandal in the making

The Body in the Library provides a nuanced and realistic picture of how medicine and society have abetted and thwarted each other ever since the lawyers behind