In this exclusive authorized edition from the Queen of Mystery, a dead
body in a clergyman's study proves to the indomitable sleuth that no
place, holy or otherwise, is a sanctuary from homicide.
Miss Marple encounters a compelling murder mystery in the sleepy little
village of St. Mary Mead, where under the seemingly peaceful exterior of
an English country village lurks intrigue, guilt, deception and death.
Colonel Protheroe, local magistrate and overbearing land-owner is the
most detested man in the village. Everyone--even in the vicar--wishes he
were dead. And very soon he is--shot in the head in the vicar's own
study. Faced with a surfeit of suspects, only the inscrutable Miss
Marple can unravel the tangled web of clues that will lead to the
unmasking of the killer.