Murder on Marble Row vs Sleeping Murder: Which Should You Read?

Cover of Murder on Marble Row Murder on Marble Row Victoria Thompson · 2004 ★★★★☆ 4.3 311 pages · ≈ 5 h 46 m · Moderate

When an explosion kills wealthy industrialist Gregory Van Dyke, Police Commissioner Teddy Roosevelt presumes that anarchists are responsible and personally asks Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy to track them down. Malloy…

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Cover of Sleeping Murder Sleeping Murder Agatha Christie · 1940 ★★★★☆ 4.0 256 pages · ≈ 4 h 44 m · Challenging

"Let sleeping murder lie": this is the proverb (a variation on "Let sleeping dogs lie") which is not obeyed by twenty-one-year-old New Zealander Gwenda Reed, who has recently married and now comes to England to settle…

The verdict

How to choose

Scores by source

Murder on Marble RowSleeping Murder
Goodreads — 4.0 (55331)
Hardcover 4.0 (16) 4.0 (1)
Google Books — 5.0 (2)
Apple Books 4.5 (98) 4.5 (240)

Reception

Murder on Marble RowSleeping Murder
Ratings 98 55331
Editions 4 117
Film adaptations — 1
Want to read — 25552
Pages 311 256

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