A Murder Is Announced: A Miss Marple Mystery (Miss Marple Mysteries Book 5)

The villagers of Chipping Cleghorn are agog with curiosity when the Gazette advertises A murder is announced and will take place on Friday, October 29th, at Little Paddocks at 6.30 p.m. A childish practical joke? Or a spiteful hoax? Unable to resist the mysterious invitation, the locals arrive at Little Paddocks at the appointed time when, without warning, the lights go out and a gun is fired. When they come back on, a gruesome scene is revealed. An impossible crime? Only Miss Marple can unravel it. Review Agatha Christie gave readers the world over a vivid sense of English life, especially in her depiction of the small village where nothing happenuntil, of course, a murder is discovered. (Jacqueline Winspear, New York Times bestselling author of the Maisie Dobbs novels ) About the Author Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. Her books have sold over a billion copies in English and another billion in one hundred foreign countries. She is the author of eighty novels and short-story collections, nineteen plays, and six novels under the name Mary Westmacott. She died in 1976. A Murder is Announced in a small-town newspaper advertisement—and Miss Marple must unravel the fiendish puzzle when a crime does indeed occur. The villagers of Chipping Cleghorn are agog with curiosity when the Gazette advertises "A murder is announced and will take place on Friday, October 29th, at Little Paddocks at 6.30 p.m." A childish practical joke? Or a spiteful hoax? Unable to resist the mysterious invitation, the locals arrive at Little Paddocks at the appointed time when, without warning, the lights go out and a gun is fired. When they come back on, a gruesome scene is revealed. An impossible crime? Only Miss Marple can unravel it. "The villagers of Chipping Cleghorn are agog with curiousity when the Gazette advertises 'A murder is announced and will take place on Friday, October 29th, at Little Paddoks at 6.30 p.m.' A childish practical joke? Or a spiteful hoax? Unable to resiste the mysterious invitation, the locals arrive at Little Paddocks at the appointed time when, without warning, the lights go out and a gun is fired. When they come back on, a gruesome scene is revealed. An impossible crime? Only Miss Marple can unravel it."--Back cover

The villagers of Chipping Cleghorn are agog withcuriosity when the Gazette advertises'A murder is announced and will take place onFriday, October 29th, at Little Paddocks at 6.30 p.m.'

A childish practical joke? Or a spiteful hoax? Unable to resist the mysterious invitation, thelocals arrive at Little Paddocks at the appointedtime when, without warning, the lights go out anda gun is fired. When they come back on, a gruesomescene is revealed. An impossible crime? Only Miss Marple can unravel it.

The villagers of Chipping Cleghorn, including Jane Marple, are agog with curiosity over an advertisement in the local gazette which read: 'A murder is announced and will take place on Friday October 29th, at Little Paddocks at 6:30 p.m.' Unable to resist the mysterious invitation, a crowd begins to gather at Little Paddocks at the ppointed time when, without warning, the lights go out . . . A murder is announced : When a murder mystery game is announced in the personal column of the village newspaper, a number of guests arrive, but the parlor game quickly goes terribly wrong, prompting a visit from Miss Marple Miss Marple confronts a "murder" that is advertised as a game in the Gazette at Little Paddocks. The lights go out and they see a man with a gun then they hear shots, then they know it is not a game Miss Bunner is murdered on her birthday and Jane Marple solves this baffling mystery