Book 3 of Miss Marple
Language: English
Classics Crime & Mystery Detective Detective and mystery stories Fiction Fiction - Mystery General Fiction Great Britain Jane (Fictitious character) Marple Mystery Mystery & Detective Mystery & Detective - Traditional British Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths Mystery Fiction Older women Political Suspense Traditional British Villages Women Sleuths Women detectives Women detectives - England
Publisher: Signet
Published: Jan 1, 1942
Description:
Now with a beautiful new series look, a classic mystery from the Queen of Crime in which the indomitable Miss Marple exposes a small town’s shameful secrets.
Lymstock is a town with more than its share of scandalous secrets—a town where even a sudden outbreak of anonymous hate mail causes only a minor stir.
But all that changes when one of the recipients, Mrs. Symmington, commits suicide. Her final note says “I can’t go on,” but Miss Marple questions the coroner’s verdict of suicide.
Soon nobody is sure of anyone—as secrets stop being shameful and start becoming deadly.
The placid village of Lymstock seems the perfect place for Jerry Burton to recuperate from his accident under the care of his sister, Joanna. But soon a series of vicious poison-pen letters destroys the village's quiet charm, eventually causing one recipient to commit suicide. The vicar, the doctor, the servants—all are on the verge of accusing one another when help arrives from an unexpected quarter. The vicar's houseguest happens to be none other than Jane Marple.