Cheap satin and peroxide blondes were a rare sight in St. Mary Mead, at least before film-man Basil Blake bought a cottage and invited down the London crowd. Then a girl in a garish get-up is found strangled in Colonel Bantry's library, and it appears Basil is involved.

Although Gwenda and Giles Reed are determined to solve a macabre puzzle involving a hauntingly familiar Victorian villa and a terrifying vision of a strangled woman, Miss Jane Marple advises them not to uncover a long unreported murder.

Miss Marple confronts a "murder" that is advertised as a game in the Gazette at Little Paddocks. The lights go out and they see a man with a gun then they hear shots, then they know it is not a game.

Miss Jane Marple's relaxing weeklong stay at London's high-class Bertram Hotel is rudely and dangerously interrupted by the murderous actions of a crime syndicate.

Responding to an urgent invitation, Miss Marple senses danger when she arrives at her friend Carrie Louise's sprawling estate. To Miss Marple's surprise, Carrie Louise's remote 'Gothic monstrosity' has been turned into a rehabilitation center for delinquent boys. Some of Carrie Louise's own children and grandchildren have also taken up residence at Stonygates and have mixed feelings about the way their mother is squandering the family fortune. Then...

Present a collection of twenty stories featuring Miss Jane Marple, an amateur sleuth who bases her solutions to crimes on past experiences and on the belief that human nature is the same everywhere.

A collection of thirteen short mystery stories featuring Miss Jane Marple, who is present at an evening dinner party where each of the guests presents a mystery in which he or she has personal knowledge.

A pocket full of rye. Wealthy businessman Rex Fortescue is found dead with rye grain in his pocket. Miss Marple soon discovers a murderer is dispatching his victims on the basis of the children's nursery rhyme. Murder at the vicarage. The most detested man in a small English village is shot in the head at the vicarage. Only Miss Marple can unravel the tangled web of clues. A Caribbean mystery. On the island of St. Honoré, old Major Palgrave tells...

The body in the library. Who is the strange young blonde lying strangled on the library floor at Gossington Hall? Miss Marple must piece the clues together. A murder is announced. A murder is announced to take place at Little Paddocks. Is it a game? Miss Marple finds out. The mirror crack'd from side to side. When former film star Marina Gregg and her husband throw a benefit party for a local hospital, the day ends in tragedy when a guest has a poisoned...