Colonel
Protheroe, local magistrate and overbearing landowner is the
most detested man in the village. Everyone - even in the vicar
- wishes he were dead. And very soon he is - shot in the head
in the vicar's own study. Faced with a surfeit of suspects,
only the inscrutable Miss Marple can unravel the tangled web
of clues that will lead to the unmasking of the killer.
THE
THIRTEEN PROBLEMS
A
collection of thirteen mysteries featuring Miss Marple and her
fellow Tuesday Night Club friends.
THE BODY IN THE
LIBRARY
When
the body of a beautiful blonde is found in the library of Gossington
Hall, the rumormongers run wild. And just what the young woman
was doing in the quiet village is what Miss Jane Marple means
to discover, as she sets a clever trap for a ruthless killer.
THE MOVING FINGER
In
an unexpected twist, Agatha Christie's heroine, Miss Jane Marple,
doesn't make an appearance in The Moving Finger until the second
half of the tale. Instead, Christie has Jerry Burton, a man
recovering from an airplane accident, narrate this intriguing
mystery, proving once again her well-deserved reputation as
a master mystery writer. Burton and his sister are staying in
a quiet English village where a number of residents - including
themselves - are receiving a series of vile anonymous letters.
But could these letters have triggered a suicide? When a murder
soon follows, Burton steps in to help Inspector Nash find the
culprit. Just as the case looks like it's solved, Miss Marple
conveniently visits the quaint town and reopens the investigation,
dazzling the villagers with her untangling of the murderous
events.
A MURDER IS ANNOUNCED
The
invitation spelled it out quite clearly: "A murder is announced
and will take place on Friday, October 29th, at Little Paddocks,
at 6:30 p.m. ..."Everyone in town expected a simple party game
- a secret "murderer" is chosen, the lights go out, the "victim"
falls, and the players guess "whodunit." Amusing, indeed...until
a real corpse is discovered. A game as murderous as this requires
the best player of all...the one and only Miss Jane Marple.
THEY DO IT WITH
MIRRORS
When
Miss Marple visits a girlhood friend she hasn't seen in 20 years,
she finds that the friend and her husband have created a home
for juvenile delinquents - and are living with 200 of them!
Miss Marple senses danger, but not from the young people. Her
fears are confirmed when a youth fires a revolver at the administrator
and at that same moment in another part of the Victorian mansion
a mysterious visitor, Mr. Gulbrandsen, is shot dead. Coincidence?
Miss Marple thinks not. The suspense in this intricately plotted
mystery builds as the clues point increasingly to a magician
and his unusual mirrors.
A POCKET FULL
OF RYE
It
started with a spot of tea. It ended in tragedy when the wealthy
Rex Fortescue sipped his last cup, fell ill, and died. The only
clue: a pocketful of rye found on the victim. The murder seemed
without rhyme or reason - until the shrewd Miss Marple recalled
that delightful nursery rhyme "Sing a Song of Sixpence." A playful
hint, indeed. But the spinster sleuth knew that murder was anything
but child's play...
4.50 FROM PADDINGTON
Through
the window of her first-class coach, Mrs. McGillicuddy sees
a woman being strangled in a passing train. No one believes
her except her good friend Miss Marple. Now the inimitable sleuth
must find a body and match wits with a killer! homeviously titled
What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw!
THE MIRROR CRACK'D
FROM SIDE TO SIDE
Marina
Gregg, the famous film actress, witnesses a murder in her country
home, Gossington Hall. Then that unassuming spinster, Miss Marple,
who just happens to be a crackerjack amateur sleuth, agrees
to a request from a friend to look into the crime.
A CARIBBEAN MYSTERY
Recovering
from a bout of pneumonia, Miss Marple is basking in the warm
sunshine of the West Indies, where the scenery is beautiful,
yet every day seems the same. That is, until Major Palgrave
dies suddenly thrusting Miss Marple into a murder investigation
of a most exotic nature.
AT BERTRAM'S
HOTEL
Something
is going on behind the closed doors of Bertram's Hotel, where
few of the aristocratic guests are who they seem. And when a
sudden murder shatters the hotel's peaceful atmosphere, Miss
Marple goes into action to crack a ruthless crime syndicate
and unmask a cold-blooded killer.
NEMESIS
Nemesis
- one who inflicts retribution or justice - seems an odd name
for an elderly, rather frail woman. But not if that old lady
is the formidable Miss Jane Marple. Soon after the death of
financier Rafiel, the man who'd called her by that name, Miss
Marple is summoned by his solicitors. A letter from the grave
sends her on a baffling quest - to investigate an unidentified
crime.
SLEEPING MURDER
A
young bride, sent by her husband to look for a suitable house,
finds the one that seems meant for her, a charming Victorian
Villa called Hillside. It's all so perfect - until she begins
to fear the house might be haunted. But Miss Jane Marple has
a more sinister explanation.
MISS MARPLE'S
FINAL CASES AND TWO OTHER STORIES
Six
gripping cases with one thing in common - the astonishing deductive
powers of Jane Marple.
