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1. A famous film star, Marina Gregg, moves to St Mary Mead with her film director husband. There's much excitement in the village, even more so when an overenthusiastic fan dies after drinking Marina's poisoned cocktail. Miss Marple must solve this mystery, and soon.
2. Ten strangers are marooned on an island, stalked by their mysterious 'host', who picks them off one by one, killing them on the basis of a children's nursery rhyme. Who will solve this mystery if no one survives? Classic Christie.
3. Miss Marple's friend sees a man strangling a woman on board a train that passes her own ... or does she? No one believes her except Miss Marple, who sends her 'mole' Lucy Eyelesbarrow, in to the Crackenthorpe house, where all the answers seem to lie.
4. Who would want to kill an ordinary charlady? James Bentley is condemned to die after being found guilty of her death. But Superintendent Spence is not convinced of his guilt and calls in Hercule Poirot to get to the bottom of this mystery. More murders follow. Other characters in the book include Eve Carpenter, Deidre Henderson, Robin Upward and the irrepressible Mrs Ariadne Oliver. Guess the name of the book.
5. Mrs Oliver is called in to organize a Murder Hunt at the garden party of Sir George and Lady Stubbs. She does this with her usual enthusiasm, organizing clues, alibis and a 'body' as well. Only the 'body' of a girl scout ends up being a real body, and the murder of Marlene Tucker brings Hercule Poirot down to the country to investigate and help his old friend.
6. A group of people at a beach resort. A beautiful adulterous wife, Arlena Marshall attracts the attention of everyone present, and the anger and jealousy of a few. Soon, she is spectacularly dead - but who could have done it? The ardent lover, the cuckolded husband, the jealous stepdaughter, the rejected wife; Hercule Poirot sets out to find the truth.
7. Another murder mystery based on a nursery rhyme brings Miss Marple to Yewtree Lodge, the home of the Fortescues, to investigate the death by stragulation of a simple maid called Gladys. Was it Percival, Lancelot, or simply someone else whodunnit?
8. Who would want to kill Nick Buckley? She was a pretty young girl without a care in the world, except for her lovely old home in Cornwall. Surely not Jim Lazarus, Commander Challenger, Charles Vyse or Frederica Rice? Three failed attempts on her life convince Hercule Poirot that she is in danger...and what then when murder DOES happen.?
9. Newly married Gwenda Reed settles in a small town in coastal England with her husband Giles on their return from New Zealand. She immediately feels at home on her new house, almost familiar with her surroundings. Then, hearing a line from a Webster play, The Duchess of Malfi makes her realize that the familiarity stems from recognition and memory, memory of a murder committed many years ago in the same house when she was a child. She turns to Miss Marple for help.
10. A scenario of murders against a theatrical setting. Stephen Babbington is the first to die while sipping a cocktail, followed by Sir Bartholomew Strange, the best friend of the renowned stage actor, Sir Charles Cartwright. Will he be next? Hercule Poirot can solve the unsolvable.
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