Miss Marple Meets Murder is an omnibus edition of Agatha Christie works published by Nelson Doubleday by arrangement with Dodd, Mead and Company in 1980. The omnibus is available in hardcover only and consists of four Miss Marple novels: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side, A Pocket Full of Rye, At Bertram's Hotel and The Moving Finger.
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Meet Miss Jane Marple, whose innocent china-blue eyes conceal a wily mind that solves crimes in all sorts of surprising ways!.
Miss Marple
Meets Murder
by AGATHA CHRISTIE
OF ALL the memorable characters in detective fiction, Miss Marple, with a gentility that masks shrewdness and cunning, is among the most engaging. She has captivated two generations of readers and film-goers.
Those who have met Miss Marple inearlier novels--and those who are meeting her for the first time--will find this 4-in-1 thrill-packed volume a memorable treat.
The Mirror Crack'd is one of Christie's most ingenious efforts. A glamorous film star, who wants to live like the landed gentry, purchases an opulent mansion. She throws a large party and invites the quaint village folk. One of the guests sips a poisoned cocktail and falls dead. Enter Miss Marple, who begins reading movie magazines (much to the villagers' amazement) and comes up with the true murderer--and the true victim.
A Pocket Full of Rye involves another poisoning, but presents our spinster sleuth with a different sort of puzzle. A wealthy businessman is found dead in his office someone has slipped taxine into his breakfast menu, and a handful of rye grain into his pocket. Miss Marple takes charge, starts looking for blackbirds... and when she finds them, she finds a cold-blooded killer as well.
At Bertram's Hotel is an imaginative, tantalizing tale. Bertram's, an old, ultrarespectable hotel, is frequented by absent-minded vicars, young girls on their way to and from boarding school and grumpy dowagers down from the country. Miss Marple arrives on holiday and is vaguely uneasy about the old place. It is too perfect, and the guests run almost too true to form. When death strikes, Miss Marple suspects the worst--and, as she says herself, she is usually right.
The Moving Finger opens with a classic situation--anonymous letters are being sent to all the prominent citizens of Lymstock. An apparent suicide and an unmistakable murder follow. Miss Marple decides that everybody has been looking at the clues wrong side up. Before she puts things to rights, we are treated to some top-drawer Christie sleight of hand.
Certain to become a collector's item, these four vintage Marple adventureswill delight Christie lovers from beginning to end.
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