A further four of Agatha Christie’s twelve, celebrated Miss Marple novels in a single volume, bound in the stylish livery of the new series.
Nemesis
Miss Marple receives a letter from a friend who died only a week earlier – a letter urging her to investigate a crime. But he has failed to tell her the nature of the nature of the crime. The only clue he leaves is an almost unfathomable quotation...
Sleeping Murder
Since Gwenda moved into her home, odd things have started to happen. In fear, she turns to Miss Marple to exorcise her ghosts – and unravel a ‘perfect’ crime that has escaped detection for 18 years...
At Bertram’s Hotel
A holiday in London draws Miss Marple to Bertram’s Hotel, where she can indulge herself in all the comforts of a bygone era. But she senses that something sinister lurks beneath the well-polished veneer...
The Murder at The Vicarage
The Colonel’s body is discovered in the Vicarage study. Yet only a few hours before, the vicar himself declared, ‘Anyone who murdered Colonel Protheroe would be doing the world at large a service.’ Miss Marple finds it all most intriguing...
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‘Full of freshness and charm ... Miss Marple is spry, shrewd and compassionate’
Sunday Telegraph
'four of agatha christie's twelve miss marple novels in a single volume'
'the body in the library'
Dolly Bantry's sweet peas have just one a first at the village flower show...the vicar, dressed in cassock and surplice is presenting the prizes...but why is his wife wearing a bathing costume...? It's all a dream, of course – which ends sharply with the very real screaming of the Bantry's parlour maid. The body of a dead girl has been discovered in the library – now Miss Marple must discover who put it there, and why...
'the moving finger'
Lymstock is a village full of secrets – most of which appear to be known to the author of the poison pen letters currently terrorising its inhabitants. When one of the recipients commits suicide, Miss Marple is the only person to question the coroner's verdict – she alone knows that the work of a poisoner is infinitely more deadly than that of any poison pen...
'a murder is announced'
An advertisement in the Chipping Cleghorn Gazette announces the time and place of a forthcoming murder – which is news in itself to the owner of Little Paddocks, the house named as the proposed crime scene. Yet, when the curious villagers descend upon Miss Blacklock's house at the appointed time, she greets them all graciously and explains that she is as much in the dark as they are – then the lights go out and several shots are fired...
'4.50 from Paddington'
As two trains run side by side, Mrs McGillicuddy witnesses a murder – a man mercilessly tightening his grip around a woman's throat – and then the train draws away. Stunned, she reports what she's seen, but with no suspects, no other witnesses and no corpse no-one is willing to believe her – except her friend Jane Marple...
''Suspense is engendered from the very start, and maintained very skilfully until the final revelation'' 'Times Literary Supplement'
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