The villagers of Chipping Cleghorn are agog with curiosity when the Gazette advertises "A murder is announced and will take place on Friday, October 29th, at Little Paddocks at 6.30 p.m." A childish practical joke? Or a spiteful hoax? Unable to resist the mysterious invitation, the locals arrive at Little Paddocks at the appointed time. Without warning, the lights go out and a door swings open revealing a man with a gun who demands "Stick 'em up."...

Miss Marple is on holiday at the Golden Palm Hotel on the island of St. Honore, but her vacation ends abruptly when Major Palgrave, a retired colonial settler from Kenya, is killed just as he is about to reveal the identity of a murderer.

Realizing that she is too old to travel, Miss Jane Marple decides she is through with crime detection, but a murder that happens almost on her doorstep changes her mind.

Lymstock is a town with more than its share of shameful secrets- a town where even a sudden outbreak of anonymous hate mail causes only a minor stir. But all that changes when one of the recipients, Mrs. Symmington, commits suicide. Her final note says "I can't go on," but Miss Marple questions the coroner's verdict of suicide. Soon nobody is sure of anyone- as secrets stop being shameful and start becoming deadly.--From back cover.

The first Miss Marple mystery, one which tests all her powers of observation and deduction. "Anyone who murdered Colonel Protheroe," declared the parson, brandishing a carving knife above a joint of roast beef, "would be doing the world at large a favor!" It was a careless remark for a man of the cloth. And one which was to come back and haunt the clergyman just a few hours later - when the Colonel is found shot dead in the clergyman's study. But...

The moving finger: Miss Marple is asked to help identifiy the author of the poison pen letters that have been flooding the village of Lymston. At Bertram's Hotel: Bertram's Hotel is a retreat where people can indulge in the comforts of a bygone era, but Miss Marple feels it's a little to proper and something sinister lurks beneath the surface.

Miss Marple takes a trip to Stonygates to discover why her friend is being poisoned. When shots are fired in a darken room, Miss Marple deduces the identity of the killer but not how it was done.

In Agatha Christie's classic, Sleeping Murder, the indomitable Miss Marple turns ghost hunter and uncovers shocking evidence of a perfect crime. Soon after Gwenda moved into her new home, odd things started to happen. Despite her best efforts to modernize the house, she only succeeded in dredging up its past. Worse, she felt an irrational sense of terror every time she climbed the stairs. In fear, Gwenda turned to Miss Marple to exorcise her ghosts....

The Murder at the Vicarage is Jane Marple's first test of her powers of observation and deduction. The Mysterious Affair at Styles brings Hercule Poirot out of retirement.

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