Colonel Arthur and Dolly Bantry wake up to the news that a body has been found in their library. She is soon identified as Ruby Keene, a dancer at the Majestic in Danemouth, a seaside resort. Dolly takes her friend, Jane Marple, to the Majestic and together they work to solve the mystery.
While the investigation centres on the Jefferson family and their entourage, Miss Marple's hunch about a second killing proves all too tragically justified.
Miss Marple is convinced that the death of schoolgirl Pamela Reeve holds the key to the mystery of the double murder.
Poison pen letters are being sent to everyone in town. It seems like a vulgar joke until a letter is found next to a suicide victim. Then another body is found, and another...
Miss Marple's instinct - that one murder will always follow another - proves to be true when more bodies are found in the sleepy town.
Someone announces a future murder by placing a notice in a local paper. When the time arrives, many of the townsfolk gather thinking it's a prank, but someone dies. Fortunately, Jane Marple is visiting a spa nearby, and can advise Inspector Craddock on where to look first.
Inspector Craddock gathers more clues, and uncovers a link to the mysterious sister and brother Pip and Emma. Do they live abroad, or in Scotland, or in Chipping Cleghorn? Meanwhile, Miss Marple is able to learn information that people wouldn't tell a policeman.
Inspector Craddock is alarmed to find that Miss Marple has gone missing. Has she become another victim of the murderer?
When the members of a wealthy banking family start dropping like flies, Miss Marple is reminded of the old nursery rhyme Sing a Song of Sixpence and vows to find the villainous "blackbird" behind the crimes.
Following another murder, Miss Marple is certain that she knows who the next victim will be. Can she get to them in time?
Death is only steps from Miss Marple when odious Col. Prothero is murdered in her idyllic village of St. Mary Mead. And in the Vicar's study, no less!
Inspector Slack has converted the parish hall into a police operations centre. During the Sunday sermon, the minister pleads for the murderer to confess. Later, Assistant Vicar Hawes calls the minister to tell him he wants to "confess," but he collapses before he can say more. Miss Marple suggests to Slack that it's time to set a trap for the murderer with the help of Hawes's landlady, Mrs. Salisbury.
A young wife believes her house is haunted. She comes to realize she witnessed the murder of her stepmother there 20 years ago as a child. To help the newlyweds, Miss Marple risks her life solving the crime, stirring a sleeping murderer in the process.
Gwenda and Miss Marple are closer to understanding the mystery of a seemingly perfect crime from many years previously.
False identities, larceny, and a crime ring are only the tip of the tenticle when Miss Marple stays in a posh London hotel (modelled after Brown's Hotel) where nothing is what it seems. Murder naturally follows, leading to a thrilling chase after the vibrant Lady Sedgewick.
Miss Marple concludes her stay at Bertram's Hotel by solving the complex case.
Miss Marple is sent on a mission from beyond the grave to clear a dead man's son. Vowing to find out the truth,she links him to a dead girl, Verity Hunt, and a family of weird sisters. She discovers love, as well as hate, can be a reason for murder.
Miss Marple resolves to clear her friend's son's name, and in turn finds that love can inspire murder as much as hate.
After Miss Marple's friend witnesses a murder in a railway carriage running parallel to her own, Miss Marple engages a resourceful young woman to investigate. The search leads to a decrepit estate, where they suspect the body was dumped. But the seemingly innocent family who lives there have secrets of their own.
While vacationing in Barbados, Miss Marple is bored to tears by a dotty major who tells tale tales of knowing a murderer. But when the major turns up dead, the wild beauty of the island can't hide the trail of a manipulative and ruthless killer.
At an estate turned reformatory school, Miss Marple visits her old school chum Carrie Louise. When Carrie Louise's dear stepson is killed, the discontent family is only the beginning as there are literally hundreds of suspects!
Hollywood comes to St. Mary Mead when faded movie star Marina Gregg takes residence for a local film shoot. But when she narrowly escapes an attempt on her life and a local woman dies instead, Miss Marple sorts the gossip rag chatter from the facts to uncover a tragedy.
