At Bertram's Hotel the intrepid Miss Marple, on holiday in London, must solve a deadly mystery at the end of a chain of very violent events. An old-fashioned London hotel is not quite as reputable as it makes out to be.…When Miss Marple comes up from the country for a holiday in London, she finds what she's looking for at Bertram's Hotel: traditional decor, impeccable service, and an unmistakable atmosphere of danger behind the highly-polished veneer....

Miss Marple helps a young couple solve a murder that had occurred eighteen years earlier.

A child's nursery rhyme holds three clues to finding a cunning killer when a well-to-do household becomes infested with murder

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

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.

"On a dull and dreary October day, Lori Shepherd and her husband Bill set off for the historic town of Rye, on the southeast coast of England, for a quiet weekend together without the kids. Bill must first pay a visit to a reclusive client--but after Lori drops him off, a powerful storm drives her off course and leaves her stranded in an ancient, rambling inn called The King's Ransom. When Lori is spooked by ghostly noises in the night, Aunt Dimity...

It has been 10 years since Jeanie Long was charged with the murder of 15-year-old Abigail Mantel. Now new evidence has proved Jeanie's innocence. On hearing the news, Emma Bennett is haunted once more by memories of her vibrant best friend, Abigail, and by the thought that her killer is still at large. As Inspector Vera Stanhope makes fresh enquiries amongst the residents of Elvet, the small East Yorkshire village where Emma and Abigail grew up, inevitably,...

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...