The murder of Colonel Protheroe — shot through the head — is a shock to everyone in St Mary Mead, though hardly an unpleasant one. Now even the vicar, who had declared that killing the detested Protheroe would be ‘doing the world at large a favour,’ is a suspect — the Colonel has been dispatched in the clergyman’s study, no less. But the picturesque English village of St Mary Mead is overpopulated with suspects. There is of course the faithless Mrs Protheroe; and there is of course her young lover — an artist, to boot.

Perhaps more surprising than the revelation of the murderer is the detective who will crack the case: ‘a white-haired old lady with a gentle, appealing manner.’ Miss Jane Marple has arrived on the scene, and crime literature’s private men’s club of great detectives will never be the same.

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This one I had it for a long time there on the shelf and for my bookclub at last picked it up.

So this one there was so fun, I really liked Miss Marple she was awesome, I don’t know why people don’t like her much, she literally just go piecing everything from what she hears, that’s some brain power just there.

And I liked that she wasn’t like ever present but she was still working on the case and appearing when you least expected her, she had like a sixth sense.

In the best Agatha plot I suspected everyone but the one person that actually was, she plays with your mind so good.