Miss Marple Omnibus (volume II)

Four of Agatha Christie’s twelve Marple novels in a single volumeA caribbean mysteryIt seems nothing will stem Major Palgrave’s tiresome stories-except his untimely death. Could it be coincidence that just before he died he was about to show Miss Marple a photograph of a murderer? Or that just as he was about to hand the snapshot over, something made him turn pale and change the subject? Miss Marple thinks not…A pocket full of ryeRex Fortesque, ‘king’ of a financial empire, was in his counting house; his ‘queen’ was in her parlour-when both ingested lethal quantities of deadly poison. The clues to these ruthless murders demonstrate terrifying similarities between the rhyme and the crime, and it will take all of Miss Marple’s ingenuity to find them…The mirror crack’d from side to sideMarina Gregg, the famous actress, witnesses a murder in her new country home-but only Dolly Bantry witnesses the look of absolute horror on Marina’s face. Dolly describes it to Jane Marple, as the look of The Lady of Shallott as she cries ‘The doom has come upon me’ – but Miss Marple wonders exactly whose doom Marina has foreseen…They do it with mirrorsTo fulfil a promise to an old schollfriend, Miss Marple stays in a country house-with 200 juvenile delinquents and seven heirs to an old lady’s fortune. One of them is a murderer- with a talent, it seems, for being in two places at once…