Miss Marple—who is she? A quiet old lady—God’s little creature—or a genius detective? Rather the latter, because only she can figure out where a corpse came from in a colonel’s library.
Everything was fine when Dolly Bantry woke up at her home in the quiet village of St. Mary Mead. Perfect—until a body of a young girl was discovered in the room where the family library was. According to the doctor, she had been strangled the previous evening before midnight. Yet no one in the house knew this attractive blonde. So who was she, and who could have killed her? Suspicion immediately fell on Dolly’s husband, an ex-colonel with a reputation as a flirt. He swears he has never seen the girl in his life. But then how did she end up in his library? That’s when Dolly calls on her longtime friend, Miss Marple, so she can find the true murderer—or uncover the terrible truth about the husband…