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[2007]
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English
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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 servantsāll are on the verge of accusing one another when help arrives from an unexpected quarter. The vicar's houseguest happens to be none other...
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The murder of Colonel Protheroe -- shot through the head -- is a shock to everyone in St Mary Mead, though hardly an unpleasant one. Now even the vicar, who had declared that killing the detested Protheroe would be 'doing the world at large a favour, ' is a suspect -- the Colonel has been dispatched in the clergyman's study, no less. But the picturesque English village of St Mary Mead is overpopulated with suspects. There is of course the faithless...
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[2010]
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English
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On holiday, Miss Marple senses something sinister at Bertram's Hotel. She's right: the police believe some of the guests are involved with criminals. Abduction, train robbery, and the murder of the hotel's doorman confuse the authorities, but Miss Marple deduces the truth.
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[2010]
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English
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After the death of her husband, Dolly Bantry sells Gossington Hall to the former film star Marina Gregg and her husband. When the glamorous couple decide to throw a benefit for the local hospital, the grounds are thronged with curious visitors, and for one of them, the day ends in tragedy. It is up to Miss Marple to discover who was really meant to take the poison that killed poor Heather Babcock.
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Jane Marple murder mysteries volume 14
Pub. Date
[2010]
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English
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A series of mysterious deaths on the Caribbean island where Miss Marple is vacationing brings to mind a snapshot of a murderer that one of the victims had earlier brought to her attention.
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[2022]
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Español
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"El cuerpo sin vida del juez de paz y coronel retirado Lucius Protheroe aparece en el despacho del vicario de St. Mary Mead, un pequeño y tranquilo pueblo de la campiña inglesa. La esposa del coronel y su amante, un joven pintor, confiesan el asesinato. Sin embargo, su vecina, Miss Jane Marple, una anciana solterona con un profundo conocimiento de la naturaleza humana y una agudísima intuición, descarta inmediatamente su culpabilidad. La hija...
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[2006]
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English
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Return to post-war England for mystery and a cup of tea. The consummate prim and proper crime-fighting spinster, Miss Jane Marple sets down her knitting needles to unwind the most ingenious crimes. As she travels from city to countryside and even the Bahamas, murders, missing bodies and haunted dreams have a habit of falling across Miss Marple's path.
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[2022]
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English
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In this new collection of Agatha Christie short stories, witness the dark side of love--crimes of passion, games of the heart, and deadly affairs. This pulse-pounding compendium features beloved detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, master of charades Parker Pyne, the enigmatic Harley Quin, and the adventurous Tommy and Tuppence, all on the ready to solve a tantalizing mystery.
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