Miss Marple Omnibus I.

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fnjir of ag;i*hii Christie's twelve marple novels in a single Yolume
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Dolly Bantry's sweet peas have just won a first átihe village flower show. The vicar, dressed. in cassock and surplice is presenting thf^prizes; but wtiy Is Ns wifer wearing a bathing costume? It's all a dream, of comise-^ which ends sharply with the very real screaming of the Bantry's parlour-maid. The body of a dead girl has been discovered in the library - now Miss Marple must discover who put It there, and why,
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Lymstock is a village full of secrets most of which appear to be known to the author of the poison pen letters currently terrorising its inhabitants. When one of the recipients commits suicide. Miss Marple is the only person to question the coroner's verdict - she alone knows that the work of a poisoner is infinitely moré deadly than that of any poison pen
a murder is announced
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An advertisement in the Chipping Clegfiorn Gazette... Tovább

Fülszöveg

fnjir of ag;i*hii Christie's twelve marple novels in a single Yolume
! 3 bc'y in the Hhs-ary ^ ^ 5 r - , .f
Dolly Bantry's sweet peas have just won a first átihe village flower show. The vicar, dressed. in cassock and surplice is presenting thf^prizes; but wtiy Is Ns wifer wearing a bathing costume? It's all a dream, of comise-^ which ends sharply with the very real screaming of the Bantry's parlour-maid. The body of a dead girl has been discovered in the library - now Miss Marple must discover who put It there, and why,
the movinp finger ^
Lymstock is a village full of secrets most of which appear to be known to the author of the poison pen letters currently terrorising its inhabitants. When one of the recipients commits suicide. Miss Marple is the only person to question the coroner's verdict - she alone knows that the work of a poisoner is infinitely moré deadly than that of any poison pen
a murder is announced
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An advertisement in the Chipping Clegfiorn Gazette announces the time and place of a forthcoming murder - which is news in itself to the owner of the proposed crime scene. Yet when the curious villagers descend upon Miss Blacklock's house at the appointed time, she greets them all graciously and explains she is as much in the dark as they are - then the lights go out and several shots are fired
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As two trains run'side by side, Mrs McGillicuddy witnesses a murder - a man mercilessly tightening his grip around a woman's ihroat - and then the train draws away. Stunned, she reports what she's seen, but with no other witnesses and no corpse, no one is willing to believe her-except her friend Jane Marple
'Suspense is engendered from the very start, and maintained very skilfully until the final revelation' Times Literary Supplement Vissza