Agatha Christie is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in English with another billion in 100 foreign countries. She is the most widely published author of all time and in any language,outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 19 plays, and six novels written under the name of Mary Westmacott.

The villagersp of Chiping Cleghorn are agog w~th curiosity when the Gazette advertises: murder is announged and will take place on Friday October 29th, at Little Paddocks at 6:30 p.m.

A childish practical joke? Or aspiteful hoax? Unable to resist the mysterious invitation, the locals arnve at Little Paddocks at the appointed time when, with.out warning, the.lights go out and. a gunis fired. When they come back on, a gruesome scene is revealed.

1 A Murder is Announced

2 Breakfast at Little Paddocks

3 At 6.30 p.m.

4 The Royal Spa Hotel

5 Miss Blacklock and Miss Bunner

6 Julia, Mitzi and Patrick

7 Among Those Present

8 Enter Miss Marple

9 Concerning a Door

10 Pip and Emma

11 Miss Marple Comes to Tea 169

12 Morning Activities in Chipping Cleghorn

13 Morning Activities in Chipping Cleghorn(continued)

14 Excursion into the Past

15 Delicious Death

16 Inspector Craddock Returns

17 The Album

18 The Letters

19 Reconstruction of the Crime

20 Miss Marple is Missing

21 Three Women

22 The Truth

23 Evening at the Vicarage

Epilogue