The Agatha Christie Miss Marple Collection

By The Pricking Of My Thumbs - When Tommy And Tuppence Visit An Elderly Aunt In Her Nursing Home, Tuppence Is Concerned By Some Odd Behaviour Of The Staff And Residents. So When Tuppence Hears About Aunt Ads'S Sudden Death And The Disappearance Of Ada'S Friend Mrs Lancaster, She Realises Her Concerns Were Right. Tuppence Meets Miss Marple And Together They Follow A Path Of Clues That Lead Them To The Norfolk Village Of Farrell St Edmund, Where They Find A Community Guarding An Array Of Secrets.Miss Marple And Tuppence Soon Discover That A Child Was Murdered In The Village Twenty Years Ago And It Seems That Aunt Ada'S Death And The Child'S Murder Might Be Linked. If Miss Marple And Tuppence Can Find Out Who Has Kidnaped Mrs Lancaster They Might Find The Truth About Both Aunt Ada'S Death And Who Killed The Child. But This Is A Village Full Of Dark Secrets And When The Villagers Realise Miss Marple And Tuppence Are Investigating A Murder They Quickly Become Defensive ? Someone Even Plants A Black Crow In Their Room In Order To Scare Them Away. This Does Not Put Off Miss Marple And Tuppence And Soon They Realise They Are Unearthing The Villagers Biggest Secret Of All.

Sittaford Mystery - The Hotel Guests At The Three Crowns In Exhampton Battle For Rooms As All Trains Out Of Exhampton Are Terminated. Miss Marple Is Forced To Stay At Sittaford House, A Lonely House Out On The Moor, When Her Nephew Raymonds Fails To Return From France. At Sitaford Miss Marple Meets The Owner - Clive Trevelyan, An Emminent Politician Who Is Tipped To Be The Next Prime Minister. His Best Friend Enderby Is Puzzled When Trevelyan Insists On Spending The Night At The Three Crowns In Exhampton Six Miles Away.Events Take On A More Sinister Edge When They Realise A Box Of Turkish Delight Meant For Trevelyan Is Poisoned And A Ouija Board Spells Out That Trevelyan Will Be Murdered Tonight. The Seance Seems To Have Spelt The Truth When Trevelyan Is Found Dead In His Rooms. No Official Police Inspector Are Able To Get To The Snowed In Hotel, So Enderby Takes Charge Of The Investigation. Jim Pearson, The Main Suspect, Is Arrested. Emily, Jim'S Fiance Is Determined To Prove His Innocence And It She Becomes Rather Adept At Finding Clues. She Is Aided By The Eager Jounalist Charles And Together, Being Guided By Miss Marple, They Set About Trying To Find Out Who The Real Murderer Is. The Investigation Complicates Itself When Charle And Emily'S Relationship Becomes More And More Intimate, To The Point That Emily Question Her Commitment To Jim. Miss Marple Investigates Travelyan'S Past And Digs Up A Host Of Secrets That Eventually Leads Her To Work Out Who The True Killer Is.

Sleeping Murder - Southampton,1952/ Gwenda Halliday ? Fiance To The Multimillionaire Charles Vastone ? Arrives In England For The First Time. She Is Met By Hugh Hornbeam Who Works For Vastone International And Together They Head Off To Find A Suitable Home For Her Future Married Life. Following Gwenda'S Instincts They Head To Devon And Eventually Dillmouth. Gwenda Is Stangely Drawn To A House Called Hillside And ? On A Whim ? She Decided To Buy It.As Gwenda Sets About Redeorating The House, Strange Things Start To Happen; She Asks For A Door To Be Put In A Place Where There Once Was A Door; She Decided Upon A Type Of Wallpaper Only To Discover That That Exact Same Type Of Wallpaper Was There Beforehand; And ? Most Frighteningly Of All, She Has A Vision Of A Woman Being Murdered. At The Behest Of Mr Vanstone ? Hornbeam Is Instructed To Hire Someone To Help Get To The Bottom Of It All. Gwenda And Hornbeam Meet Miss Marple At A Performance Of The Duchess Of Malfi, During The Performance Gwenda Has Another Flashback To The Murder Of A Woman At Hillside And, When Questioned By Miss Marple, Realises That The Woman;S Name Was Helen. Marple Realises That Gwenda Is Reclooecting A Repressed Memory And Following Further Investigation It Becomes Apparent That In Fact Gwenda Did Live In Hillside Before When She Was Very Young And That Her Father Had Moved There After The Death Of Her Mother Until His New Fiance Suddenly Disappeare After Which He Quickly Took His Own Life And Gwenda Was Sent Back To India To Live With Relatives. They Learn This Information From Mrs Paggett, The Old Cook At Hillside, Walter Fane, The Local Solicitor, Dr Kennedy, Gwenda'S Uncle, And The Local Detective Inspector Primer. They Learn That Helen Was The Singer In An End Of Pier Band Of Threatricals Called The Funnybones, And One By One Gwenda And Hornbeam Seek These Characters Out To Interview Them. They Meet Erskine And Janet Who Were In Charge Of The Troupe And Now Run Guest House In Dilmouthm, Jackie Affick The Pianist Who Now Lives In A Palace And Evie Ballantyne Who Headlines At The Palladium. It Becomes Clear That Any One Of Them Had Enough Motive And Opportunity To Murder Helen, But When A Vital Witness Comes Forward And Agrees To Meet Them They Think They Will Learn Who The Killer Was, Only To Have Their Hopes Dashed And Their Worst Suspicions Confirmed When The Witness Is Found Dead Before She Got A Chance To Talk To Them. Miss Marple Incourages Inspector Primer To Gather All The Suspects In A Room And From There Explains What Happened All Thos Years Ago: How Gwenda'S Has Faked Her Own Death In India In Order To Escape The Authorities Who Were After Her Because Of Her Involvement In A Spate Of Jewel Robberies, How She Had Arranged A Rendez-Vous With Her Husband And Child Back In England, But That This Had All Gone Wrong When They Had Encountered Her Possessive Brother - Dr Kennedy, In A Fit Of Jealousy Kennedy Had Strangled Her And Made It Look Like She Had Run Away. Following Her Death Halliday Had Become Suspicious And Kennedy Had Been Forced To Kill Him As Well. When Confronted By His Crimes Dr Kennedy Confesses His Guilt And Reveals Where He Buried Gwenda'S Mother. Gwenda Lays Flowers At Her Mothers' Grave And Agrees To Marry Hornbeam Since The Two Have Fallen In Love Over The Course Of Their Investigation.

The Moving Finger - Jerry And Joanna Arive Is Sleepy Lymstock In Order For Jerry To Recuperate After A Serious Motorcycling Accident. But Their Expectations Of Quiet And Peace Are Quickly Dashed When They Discover A Poison Pen-Writer Is At Work In The Village. Miss Marple Is Visiting Lymstock In Order To Attend The Funeral Of Colonel Appleton- A Victim Of One Of The Pioson Pen- Letters. When More And More Villagers Start Receiving The Cruel Hate-Mail. Miss Marple Decides To Stay To Find Out Who Cound Be Behind Such Milicious Messages, Jerry And Joanna Are Initiated Into Village Life, As All The Inhabitants Start Popping Round For Tea. It Is Not Long Before They Are Of The Conclusion That The Village Is Full Of Sniping Gossip And When Mrs Symmington, The Solicitor'S Wife, Is Found Dead, They Realise This Gossip Has The Most Sinister Edge. Marple Begins To Try And Unravel The Mystery With The Help Of Inspector Graves, Increasingly Marple Is Impressed By Jerry'S Instinct And Thinks He Makes Rather A Good Sleuth. Together They Set About Finding Out Who Is Writing The Vicious Lettrs. Mrs Symmington'S Death Is Pronounced As Suicide But Marple And Jerry Both Think This Can'T Be True And This Leads Them To Begin To Investigate A Murder. Further Clues Are Provided For Marple And Jerry When Agnes, The Symmington'S Maid Is Also Found Dead, Did Agnes See The Culprit? Someone Creeping Round The Women'S Institute Where The Fatal Typewriter Is Stored, A Book With Pages Ripped Out Found In Emily Barton'S Drawing Room, And Mrs Symmington'S Rather Odd Suicide Note'L Can'T Go On' All Complicate The Investigation. When The Police Discover Aimee, The Doctor'S Sister, Using The Type-Writer They Think They'Ve Found The Perpetrator...But Marple Knows Otherwise And Using A Most Meticulous, But Rather Dangerous Plan She Reveals Who The Real Letter-Writer And Killer Is.