Agatha Christie Short Stories 2025: DECEMBER

And here we are, in the last month of the year. I need to start thinking about next year - but for now, let's focus on the last two stories we're going to read for 2025:

THE THUMB MARK OF ST. PETER

(a Miss Marple story)

So far, every member of the Tuesday Night Club have contributed some of their stories. And on every story, Miss Marple has successfully solved the case. But Miss Marple herself had never offered her own story. So, here, on our last month of #AgathaChristieSS25, she would tell the only story she would ever contributed to the Club. It's concerning her niece Mable, who married a violent man with insanity history in his family, and who later died suddenly. When arsenic is found in the house Mabel claims to have been intended to commit suicide, but who is telling the truth?
In this story Miss Marple describes what may have been the very first murder she solved. The story was published in the Royal Magazine in the UK in 1928. It was included in the 1932 collection, The Thirteen Problems, Miss Marple's first short story collection.

A FRUITFUL SUNDAY

(a non-detective story)

A young couple discover a ruby necklace at the bottom of their fruit basket, worth fifty thousand pounds. Well, it sounds like a promising story of what-may-happen - a kind of story I always love to read, it can be very exciting or the opposite, but I'm certainly looking forward to! The story was included in the UK collection The Listerdale Mystery, 1934, and was published in the US in the collection The Golden Ball and Other Stories in 1971.

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So, tell me, are you excited to do Agatha Christie Short Stories for another year? Or do you think we should take a break and come back the next year? Let me know what you think, and if you are eager to continue, what or which stories you'd like to read more?