Miss Marple's Final Cases

Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061748064
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 7

Book Description
Despite the title, the stories collected here recount cases from the middle of Miss Marple's career. They are: 'Sanctuary'; 'Strange Jest'; 'Tape-Measure Murder'; 'The Case of the Caretaker'; 'The Case of the Perfect Maid'; 'Miss Marple Tells a Story'; 'The Dressmaker's Doll'; 'In a Glass Darkly'; 'Greenshaw's Folly.'

The Thirteen Problems

Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007120869
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 14

Book Description
On Tuesday evening a group gathers at Miss Marple's house and the conversations turns to unsolved crimes: the case of the disappearing bloodstains; the thief who committed his crime twice over; the strange case of the invisible will; and the death-bed message about a "heap of fish".

Tape Measure Murder

Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062129694
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34

Book Description
Miss Politt has been waiting and waiting outside Laburnum Cottage for Mrs. Spenlow, to no avail. She nervously acquires the help of her next-door neighbor, whose gumption and persistence reveal that Mrs. Spenlow is dead on the hearthrug. The whole of St. Mary Mead is convinced the murderer is Mr. Spenlow, who shows no emotion upon his wife’s sudden death, but, with characteristic diligence, Miss Marple reveals that it is perhaps not that simple.

Strange Jest: A Miss Marple Short Story

Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007452039
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 27

Book Description
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.

Sleeping Murder

Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062073729
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 266

Book Description
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. Between them, they were to solve a “perfect” crime committed many years before.

Miss Marple Tells a Story: A Miss Marple Short Story

Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007526504
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 20

Book Description
A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.

The Dressmaker's Doll

Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062302264
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33

Book Description
Previously published in the print anthology The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories. Alicia Coombe manages her very smart dressmaking business with the help of her young assistant, Sybil. One day, a doll appears in the shop—a floppy, long-legged doll that sits itself on the best sofa. But where did it come from, and why does it appear to watch them?

Agatha Christie's Miss Marple

Author: Anne Hart
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0006499562
Category : Detective and mystery stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 164

Book Description
The crimes tackled by Miss Marple include 16 murders, four attempted murders, and assorted robberies, embezzlements, blackmailings and poachings. This biography combs through the 12 novels and 20 short stories in which Miss Marple appeared in order to reveal her true identity.

Murder Is Easy

Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062113437
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274

Book Description
A quiet English village is plagued by a fiendish serial killer in Queen of Mystery Agatha Christie’s classic thriller, Murder is Easy. Luke Fitzwilliam does not believe Miss Pinkerton’s wild allegation that a multiple murderer is at work in the quiet English village of Wychwood and that her local doctor is next in line. But within hours, Miss Pinkerton has been killed in a hit-and-run car accident. Mere coincidence? Luke is inclined to think so—until he reads in the Times of the unexpected demise of Wychwood’s Dr. Humbleby.…

In a Glass Darkly

Author: Agatha Christie
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062302175
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 22

Book Description
Previously published in the print anthology The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories. The narrator is startled by a vision in his mirror: He sees a man with a scarred neck strangling a beautiful blonde. He later meets the woman in his vision, Sylvia, and notes her fiancé's scarred neck. He tells her of his premonition, and the engagement is broken off. But is that all there is to it?