There she finds a curious ménage - an extended family and a reformatory for young criminals - where violence seems just below the surface.Īn old nursery rhyme comes true in a grotesque double murder.
To reassure an old friend, Miss Marple agrees to go down to Stonygates, a rambling country mansion. But when the lights go out at the appointed hour, no one thinks it's a joke any more. Who is the strange young blonde lying strangled in the library of Gossington Hall? Fortunately for the Bantrys, Miss Marple is their neighbour.Įveryone in Chipping Cleghorn is intrigued by the advertisement predicting a murder at Little Paddocks. When the hated Colonel Protheroe is found murdered in the sleepy village of St Mary Mead, Miss Marple is puzzled why so many people want to confess.Ī nasty case of poison-pen letters brings Miss Marple to the East Anglian village of Lymston.
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