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1. In "Peril at End House" the young girl Magdala Buckley, who is nicknamed "Nick", survives several attempts on her life. Hercule Poirot takes an interest in the case, as he meets the young woman while he is vacationing with his friend Arthur Hastings in St. Loo. He tries to find out who could have reason to kill Nick Buckley. Poirot persuades Nick to have someone stay with her for the weekend to ensure her safety. Nick then invites her cousin Maggie Buckley. During the fireworks in the village that weekend, Maggie is found dead, wearing Nick's red shawl. Which female character is found to be the murderer?
2. In "Nemesis" Miss Marple receives a letter from Jason Rafiel. She met Mr. Rafiel in "A Caribbean Mystery". The letter is send to her after his death. In the letter he asks her to solve a crime for him. She is to go on a tour of houses and gardens. The trip was arranged by Mr. Rafiel before he died. Soon Miss Marple finds out about a local girl, Verity Hunt, who was supposedly killed by Mr. Rafiel's son, Michael. As a headmistress who knew the girl gets killed, Miss Marple tries to find out who is really behind the old murder. Which female turns out to be responsible for the death of Verity?
3. In "Crooked House" the wealthy Aristide Leonides is killed by substituting his insulin with eserine drops. The family hopes that Aristide's much younger wife Brenda turns out to be the killer, but eventually the murderer is revealed to be which female family member?
4. In "Cat Among the Pigeons" murder takes place at a famous school for girls called Meadowbank. One of the teachers is found dead in the new sports pavillion. Julia Upjohn, a student of the school, calls in Hercule Poirot when another body is found at the sports pavillion. He manages to identify not one, but actually two murderers, both female. Which of the two lethal women committed two of the three murders that occur in the story?
5. In "Lord Edgware Dies", naturally, the title character meets his demise. His wife Jane Wilkinson arrives at their house and is admitted by the butler. She then goes to the study, where her husband is later found killed. It seems an easy case, but it soon is revealed that Jane was at a dinner party elsewhere with many witnesses present to claim she never left the table. Hercule Poirot investigates and soon finds the female killer responsible. Who is the lethal woman in this book?
6. In the "Mirror Cracked from Side to Side" we find the village of St. Mary Mead excited about Gossington Hall being sold to a film star. St. Mary Mead naturally is the home of famous amateur sleuth Miss Marple. Gossington Hall was previously owned by her friends Arthur and Dolly Bantry. Here a murder victim was once found in the book "The Body in the Library". Now Arthur Bantry has died and his wife has sold the large estate, but remains living in the lodge on the grounds. The house has been sold to film star Marina Gregg and her husband. They hold a fundraiser for the benefit of the local ambulance company. Many villagers attend the festivities and several guests are being allowed into the home, which was extensively redecorated, and get the chance to meet Marina Gregg. During the party a woman, Heather Badcock, dies of drinking a cocktail that contained poison. The cocktail was originally intended for Marina Gregg, so naturally it is assumed that she was the target. Miss Marple investigates and manages to deduce which female is responsible for the murder. Who is found to have murdered Heather Badcock?
7. In "Murder is Easy" the narrator of the story is Luke Fitzwilliam. He is a policeman returning from the East. In the train home he meets Lavinia Fullerton, an elderly lady from the village of Wychwood-under-Ashe. She tells him she is on her way to Scotland Yard, to tell them that several deaths in the village are not natural as everyone assumed, but actually the work of a clever murderer who is not suspected by anyone. Luke is reminded of her story when he reads in the paper that Miss Fullerton was run over by a car and killed. Soon he also sees an obituary in the newspaper, announcing the death of Doctor John Humbleby, who Miss Fullerton had mentioned as the next intended victim. Luke goes to investigate in the village, posing as a writer who is doing research for a book on witchcraft. He manages to unmask the female murderer in the end and finds true love at the same time. Who is the woman responsible for many deaths in the village of Wychwood-under-Ashe?
8. In "Appointment with Death" Hercule Poirot is in Jerusalem when he overhears a conversation between two people through an open window. He hears a man saying to his companion that it is inevitable that another woman has to be killed. He later meets the Boynton family while traveling the region and finds that Mrs. Boynton is a former prison warden, who takes great pleasure in dominating and mentally abusing her family. He learns that her son Raymond and her daughter Carol were the ones whose conversation he overheard, apparently plotting the death of their mother. When the family is at Petra, Mrs. Boynton is found dead one evening at her tent. Hercule Poirot is called in to investigate her death and manages to identify the female killer. Who is responsible for the death of Mrs. Boynton?
9. In "Murder is Announced" the people in the village of Chipping Cleghorn are surprised to find an ad in the local newspaper that a murder is to take place at Little Paddocks that evening. Assuming that some kind of murder game will be played, they all arrive at the house of Laetita Blacklock to be part of the excitement. Miss Blacklock however is just as surprised about the ad as the other villagers, thinking it is some kind of joke pulled by Julia and Patrick, her niece and nephew who live with her. At the designated hour the lights go out and a man with a revolver appears and shouts "Hands up". Soon three shots are fired and when the lights come back on the man Rudi Scherz is found dead and Miss Blacklock is bleeding heavily from her ear where a bullet grazed her. Miss Marple is staying at a nearby hotel and investigates the crime with the help of inspector Craddock. Who is the female killer she manages to unmask in the end?
10. In "Sad Cypress" Elinor Carlisle is on trial for the murder of Mary Gerrard. Elinor would inherit the fortune of her aunt, Laura Welman, upon her death. Recently Mrs. Welman had taken an interest in Mary Gerrard, the daughter of the lodge keeper at her estate Hunterbury. She gave her an education and was very fond of the girl. She had planned on changing her will to provide for Mary, when she suddenly died. Elinor's fiancee had recently fallen in love with Mary and Elinor was very jealous. When Mary is poisoned, naturally suspicion falls on Elinor. Hercule Poirot does not believe she is the killer and investigates the murder, unmasking the real female killer. Who is behind the murder of Mary Gerrard?
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