The Fashion of Crime - Thirteen Mysterious Cases. A Body in the Library. Murders by Alphabet. Murder in the Vicarage. Murder in the Courtyard (Set of 5 Books)

Thirteen Mysterious Cases A few lovely people have found a pastime: they gather by the fireplace every Tuesday and tell each other mysterious criminal stories that happened in the recent past. Each story is filled with plenty of gruesome and mysterious details. There is just one thing missing: the answer to the question - who is the murderer? So why were all these chilling puzzles not solved before? Perhaps because here, by the fireplace, the brilliant Miss Marple hears them for the first time? A Body in the Library Everything was wonderful when Dolly Bantry woke up at home in the quiet village of St. Mary Mead. Wonderful - until a body of a young girl was discovered in the room where the family library was located. According to the doctor, she was strangled last night before midnight. Yet nobody in the house knew this attractive blonde. So who is she, and who could have killed her? Suspicion immediately fell on Dolly's husband, a retired colonel with a reputation for being a lothario. He swears he has never seen this girl in his life. But how did she end up in his library? Then Dolly calls for help from her longtime friend Miss Marple, to find the real killer - or uncover the terrible truth about her husband… Murders by Alphabet There are 26 letters in the English alphabet. In the signature of the criminal who has initiated a game with Hercule Poirot using letters, there are only three letters, A, B, and C. He plans to commit murders in places whose names are arranged in alphabetical order. Poirot's task is to unravel the killer's plans and prevent him from committing the intended 26 crimes. Murder in the Vicarage This novel introduces one of Agatha Christie's favorite characters - Miss Jane Marple. This meticulous and charming elderly lady, who lives in the village of St. Mary Mead, is capable of unraveling the most puzzling situations, taking only a brief break from knitting and weeding in her beloved garden. Miss Marple's first investigation will be the murder of Colonel Protheroe. Too many in the village wished for the death of this unpleasant