Agatha Christie's Marple

Dolly Bantry calls upon her old friend Miss Marple when the strangled corpse of an unknown blonde girl is found in the library of her home, Gossington Hall.

In the sleepy English village of St. Mary Mead, one man--Colonel Protheroe--is intensely disliked by everyone. When Protheroe is then found with a bullet through the head and slumped over the desk in the vicarage study, the obvious suspects seem to be the colonel's wife or her lover. Is it possible that they have been framed? Miss Marple unpicks the truth behind the crime.

When a train swerves towards the 4:50 train from Paddington, Elspeth McGillicuddy sees a woman in the parallel carriage being strangled, with the murderer's shape silhouetted against the window. The authorities think that Mrs. McGillicuddy must have been dreaming, for there is no trace of a body. But her old friend Miss Marple knows better and the two ladies begin their own investigation.

A murder is announced in the personal columns of the Chipping Cleghorn Gazette--is it just a game? The curious villagers assemble at Lettie Blacklock's house to discover that their host did not place the advert. Then the room goes dark and three gunshots ring out. Lettie is injured and the man who fired the gun is dead. Miss Marple pays a visit to her friend Amy Murgatroyd to uncover the truth.