Jane Marple is being treated to a few days' holiday by her niece, staying at Bertram's Hotel - a dignified, establishment tucked away in a back street of busy Mayfair. It is a place where sedate upper-class ladies, retired military gentlemen and the higher echelons of the clergy can indulge in the comforts of a bygone age. But Miss Marple begins to feel uneasy. Something sinister lurks beneath the polished veneer. Why are so many major crimes associated...

When Colonel Protheroe is found dead from a single gun shot wound to the head, none of his neighbors in the village of St. Mary Mead is much surprised. So many people wished this local official would say farewell, if not quite so permanently. With suspects abound and the local police symied it is up to Miss Jane Marple to root out the killer.

Aristide Leonides was elderly, rich, and in the way. He suffered from diabetes and what could be easier than substituting poison for his insulin? His aristocratic home, Three Gables, had always held many secrets, but now it held a murderer. Who was it? The answer seemed obvious - too obvious. The very young, very beautiful - and now very wealthy - widow had the most to gain. But what about the two sons cut off without a penny? Or the granddaughters...

Miss Marple confronts a "murder" that is advertised as a game in the Gazette at Little Paddocks. The lights go out and they see a man with a gun then they hear shots, then they know it is not a game.

After boarding a train at Paddington Station, Elspeth is certain she saw a man strangling a woman in an adjoining train. No one else believes it ever really happened-- except her friend Miss Jane Marple. And the indomitable sleuth is returning to the scene of the crime to discover just exactly what Elspeth saw.

A stunning omnibus that gathers together every short story featuring one of Agatha Christie's most famous creations, Miss Marple.

Miss Marple sets out to solve the mysteries at an unusual college for delinquents, now being run by her friend's third husband.

Work 1. Poison-pen letters cause two deaths in Lymston. Can Miss Marple uncover the killer before there is another? Work 2. Miss Marple thinks Bertram's is a little too proper & maybe a little sinister. And then Bess Sedgwick & her daughter check in and the doorman turns up dead.