marple, jane (fictional character)

Miss Jane Marple and Inspector Curry of Scotland Yard are both investigating a vicious, cold-blooded murder at Stoneygates, a home for juvenile delinquents.

Miss Jane Marple investigates a series of poison pen letters accusing many citizens in the quiet village of Lymstock of illicit love affairs and scandals leading to at least one distraught victim to take her own life.

Contains all twenty of the short stories featuring Miss Jane Marple, Agatha Christie's famous amateur sleuth.

Miss Marple helps a young couple solve a murder that had occurred eighteen years earlier.

Miss Jane Marple, a deceptively demure spinster, investigates when an unpopular magistrate and church warden is discovered shot through the head.

Realizing that she is too old to travel, Miss Jane Marple decides she is through with crime detection, but a murder that happens almost on her doorstep changes her mind.

Miss Marple finds herself trying to outwit a killer when she decides to investigate her friend Mrs. McGillicuddy's claim that she saw a woman being strangled through the window of a passing train.

Miss Marple refuses to take matters at face value when the body of a young woman is found in the colonel's library.

Contains all twenty of the short stories featuring Miss Jane Marple, Agatha Christie's famous amateur sleuth.

Miss Jane Marple is called out to a country estate to check on her rich friend Carrie, who has turned her mansion into a reform school for juvenile delinquents, and finds herself investigating a strange murder that points toward the workings of magic.