Miss Marple Mysteries
6 primary works • 54 total works
One of them is a murderer - with, it seems, a talent for being in two places at once...
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.
Raymond West's niece is invited by an elderly recluse to help compile her late grandfather's diaries for publication. After only two days at their sprawling home of Greenshaw's Folly, she witnesses a murder, which only Miss Marple can solve...
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.
When Miss Marple dines at the Bantrys the conversation always turns to murder. Whilst Dr Lloyd was in the Canary Islands, a woman drowned in the sea. To all it seems an accident, but one eyewitness says her paid companion deliberately drowned her...
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.
A retired spy breaks his neck after a fall and dies. The death is no accident and Sir Henry wants Miss Marple's help to analyse the evidence and find out which of the four suspects is guilty...
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.
A man is accused of stabbing his wife in the chest. Only he and a chambermaid are suspects and the evidence against him seems infallible. In a desperate attempt to save his life, he comes to Miss Marple to help prove his innocence…
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.
At dinner with the Bantrys, beautiful actress Jane Helier tells the story of a bizarre crime. A man is drugged after being lured to a bungalow under false pretences and then accused of burglary. Miss Helier is convinced of his innocence and the group are left to deduce the motive behind the burglary…
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.
Around the dinner table, Mrs Bantry recounts the tale of a dinner where everyone became ill and one young lady died from poisoning, after foxglove leaves had been mixed in with the sage and fed to everyone. The group decide that this mixed up stuffing was no accident and play twenty questions to deduce the killer…
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.
Whilst dining at the Bantrys Miss Marple is asked to tell a murder mystery. She recounts the time she could tell from a man’s behaviour, that he was planning to kill his wife. But at the time of the murder he had a perfect alibi…
Volume 62 in the Agatha Christie Collection (1961)
Limited edition of 1000 copies worldwide
To understand the strange goings on at The Pale Horse Inn, Mark Easterbrook knew he had to begin at the beginning. But where exactly was the beginning?
Was it the savage blow to the back of Father Gorman's head? Or the priest's visit, just minutes before, to a woman on her death bed? Or was there a deeper significance to the violent squabble which Mark Easterbrook had himself witnessed earlier?