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Now with a beautiful new series look, Agatha Christie's first mystery to feature the beloved investigator Miss Marple--as a dead body in a clergyman's study proves to the indomitable sleuth that no place, holy or otherwise, is a sanctuary from homicide.

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El ?xito de la superproducci?n Asesinato en el Orient Express, ha vuelto a poner de plena actualidad a la Gran Dama del Crimen: una autora que no pasa de moda.

El cuerpo sin vida del juez de paz y coronel retirado Lucius Protheroe aparece en el despacho del vicario... Read Full Overview

Miss Jane Marple's passion for gossip leads to the investigation of a local man's murder. The victim was not liked in the least, and his death isn't raising eyebrows. But his recently revealed secrets are.

Colonel Protheroe, St. Mary Mead's most loathed magistrate, has been found shot through the head. It isn't his murder that raises eyebrows, but rather the scandalous secrets it exposes which send Miss Marple on the trail of a killer with something to hide. Reissue.

Murder mystery in which sleuth Jane Marple tackles the case of a slain colonel with many enemies.

Colonel Protheroe, St. Mary Mead's most loathed magistrate, has been found shot through the head. It isn't his murder that raises eyebrows, but rather the scandalous secrets it exposes which send Miss Marple on the trail of a killer with something to hide. Reissue.