Responding to her friend Carrie’s urgent invitation， Miss Jane Marple has arrived at her Sprawling estate．To Miss Marple’s surprise．Carrie’s remote “Gothic monstrosity”has been turned into a home for delinqUent boys．What’s more．Carrie’s ownschildren and grendchildren have taken up residence—and few of them are thrilled at how mother is squandering the famiIv fortune．Then a brutal murder Proves that philanthropy is the least of Carrie’s problems——and Miss Marple findS that where there’s smoke，there’s mirrors．
“So few writers are producing the pure puzzIe—novel，and no one on either side of the AtlantiC does it better．”---New York Times
“Brisk and persuasive．”---New Yorker