A Caribbean Mystery
Book 9 of Miss Marple
Language: English
Caribbean Area Classics Crime & Mystery Crime Thriller Detective Detective and mystery stories English Fiction Fiction - Mystery General General Fiction Jane (Fictitious character) Marple Mystery Mystery & Detective Mystery & Detective - General Mystery & Detective - Series Mystery & Detective - Traditional British Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths Mystery Fiction Political Suspense Traditional British Women Sleuths Women detectives Women detectives - England
Publisher: Signet
Published: Jan 1, 1964
Description:
There is no rest or relaxation for Miss Marple. Agatha Christie's most appealing sleuth returns in this classic baffler of a vacation-turned-deadly.
Nephew Raymond West has given his favourite aunt a vacation at a beautiful resort in the Caribbean. While there she encounters an old wind-bag. One of his stories is about meeting a murderer. He has a snapshot. Suddenly he hesitates, and gets flustered. By the next morning he is dead, seemingly of natural causes. Miss Marple has doubts.
And well she should.
Librarian's note: this entry is for the novel, "A Caribbean Mystery." Collections and other Miss Marple stories are located elsewhere on Goodreads. The series includes 12 novels and 20 short stories. Entries for the short stories can be found by searching Goodreads for: "a Miss Marple Short Story."
An exotic holiday for Miss Marple is ruined when a retired major is killed... As Jane Marple sat basking in the Caribbean sunshine she felt mildly discontented with life. True, the warmth eased her rheumatism, but here in paradise nothing ever happened. Eventually, her interest was aroused by an old soldier’s yarn about a strange coincidence. Infuriatingly, just as he was about to show her an astonishing photograph, the Major’s attention wandered. He never did finished the story...