Nemesis (Christie novel)

Nemesis is a mystery novel by Agatha Christie (1890–1976), first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 5 November 1971 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later the same year. The UK edition retailed at £1.50 and the US edition at $6.95. It was the last Miss Marple novel the author wrote, although Sleeping Murder was the last Miss Marple novel to be published.

Miss Marple first encounters Jason Rafiel in A Caribbean Mystery, where they solve a mystery. In his will, Rafiel leaves another mystery for Miss Marple to solve.

Nemesis received generally positive reviews at the time of publication. It was described as "astonishingly fresh" with a "devilish fine" confrontation and overall was "quite worthy of the Picasso of the detective story". It is a "first-rate story" in a "traditional detective novel". The novel is "readable and ingenious" and "Mrs. Christie remains unflagging" at age 80. A later review by Barnard is the only negative note, stating "The garden paths we are led up are neither enticing nor profitable," and Barnard rates Christie's later novels generally not as good as earlier ones.

Analyses of the plot and characters in the novel find homosexual themes, but Miss Marple "seems to view the passionate friendship between women as just a phase in their life", said to be "a conventional view, held by people of Marple's generation and social class".