Miss Marple is old. Her joints complain, her memory is not what it used to be, and she spends more of her time sitting and resting than she cares to. Why, then, should she receive a summons calling her to investigate an incident that occurred many years ago? Moreover, why would that summons come from a friend after his death? And how is it he seems to be pulling the puppet strings from the grave?
Miss Marple has a pretty little problem to solve, but she has precious little information to go on. Yet that is by design, and she has been chosen for a very important reason: She is ruthless in finding the truth.
Quaint English villages, manors and gardens abound in this story, but the end of it lies the brutal truth, and Miss Marple pursues it unflinchingly.
print: 271 pages
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