#1 – The Murder at the Vicarage
Colonel Protheroe, the widely disliked magistrate of St Mary Mead, is found shot in the vicar’s study after several villagers have openly wished him dead. Confessions, altered times and local scandals create more suspects than the police can easily manage. Miss Marple applies her close knowledge…
#2 – The Thirteen Problems
At gatherings in St Mary Mead, members of the Tuesday Night Club take turns describing mysteries they believe the others cannot solve. The cases involve poisoning, disappearance, disguised identity, supernatural appearances and crimes committed in households whose surviving witnesses misunderstood what they saw. Miss Marple repeatedly…
#4 – The Moving Finger
Recovering from an accident, Jerry Burton moves with his sister Joanna to the village of Lymstock, where anonymous letters accuse residents of sexual and social misconduct. When one recipient dies and another murder follows, the campaign can no longer be dismissed as malicious gossip. Miss Marple…
#5 – Sleeping Murder
Newly married Gwenda Reed buys a house on the English coast and begins recognising rooms and features she believes she has never seen. A sudden memory of a woman lying strangled at the foot of the stairs persuades her that the house belonged to her childhood…
#6 – A Murder Is Announced
A notice in the local newspaper announces that a murder will occur at Little Paddocks at a specified time. Neighbours arrive expecting a game, but the lights fail, a masked intruder enters and real shots are fired. Miss Marple investigates a household shaped by rationing, displaced…
#7 – They Do It with Mirrors
Miss Marple visits her old friend Carrie Louise at Stonygates, a country house converted into a residential centre for troubled young men. During a dramatic confrontation in one part of the building, a member of the extended family is shot elsewhere. The household combines philanthropy, inheritance…
#8 – A Pocket Full of Rye
Businessman Rex Fortescue dies after being poisoned at breakfast, with rye found in his pocket. Further deaths at the family home appear to follow a nursery rhyme, and Miss Marple becomes involved because one victim had previously worked as her maid. The investigation exposes fraud, colonial…
#9 – 4.50 from Paddington
Mrs McGillicuddy sees a woman being strangled in a train travelling alongside her own, but no body is found and the railway records offer no obvious crime. Miss Marple calculates where the corpse may have been thrown and sends the capable Lucy Eyelesbarrow into Rutherford Hall…
#10 – The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side
Film star Marina Gregg buys Gossington Hall and hosts a fête where a local woman dies after drinking a poisoned cocktail apparently intended for Marina. A brief expression on the actress’s face before the death becomes central to Miss Marple’s understanding of the case. The novel…
#11 – A Caribbean Mystery
While recovering at a Caribbean hotel, Miss Marple listens to Major Palgrave’s stories until he begins to show her a photograph of a murderer and suddenly changes the subject. When he dies soon afterwards, she suspects that someone nearby recognised the image. The resort gathers wealthy…
#12 – At Bertram’s Hotel
Miss Marple stays at Bertram’s Hotel, an establishment that appears to preserve the service, food and social rituals of Edwardian England. Behind the nostalgic surface, police are investigating robberies, unexplained absences and the movements of guests whose respectable identities may be manufactured. The mystery contrasts post-war…
#13 – Nemesis
After the death of Jason Rafiel, Miss Marple receives instructions to join a guided tour and investigate an unspecified injustice. The route, the other travellers and a visit to a house occupied by three elderly sisters gradually connect her assignment to a young woman’s murder and…
#14 – Miss Marple’s Final Cases
This posthumous collection gathers six Miss Marple investigations, including a wounded man in a church, hidden treasure, a suspicious riding accident, theft by an apparently perfect maid and a husband accused of stabbing his wife. It also includes Greenshaw’s Folly and two non-Marple stories with supernatural…