Sleeping Murder vs The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Inspectrices de police, Women detectives in fiction, Marple, Jane Marple, Women detectives, England
Sleeping Murder
"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…
1 film adaptation
vs
The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
“Miss Jane Marple was sitting by her window.”
E-book exclusive extras:1) Christie biographer Charles Osborne's essay on The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side;2) "The Marples": the complete guide to all the cases of crime literature's foremost female detective.The…
1 film adaptation
The verdict
- Ratings are close across the board — any is a safe pick by score.
- The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side has the widest readership — 57028 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Sleeping Murder | The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 4.0 (55331) | 4.0 (57028) |
| Hardcover | 4.0 (1) | 3.7 (113) |
| Google Books | 5.0 (2) | — |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (240) | 4.5 (205) |
Reception
| Sleeping Murder | The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 55331 | 57028 |
| Editions | 117 | 126 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 25552 | 24602 |
| Reading it now | 2181 | 1715 |
| Written reviews | 3870 | 3621 |
| Wikipedia attention | 5633 | 6392 |
| Pages | 256 | 272 |