The Thumb Mark Of St Peter

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook.

A classic Agatha Christie short story, featuring Miss Marple, from the collection Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories. Fifteen years ago, Miss Marple’s niece, Mabel Denman, was accused of murdering her abusive and violent husband. Can Miss Marple clear her niece’s name and reveal the true perpetrator?

In this classic short story, Miss Marple steps in to investigate when her niece is accused of murdering her violent husband. During the first meeting of the Tuesday Night Club at Miss Jane Marple’s home, her guests present real tales of mystery. Miss Marple is the first to share a story . . . Fifteen years ago, Miss Marple’s niece, Mabel Denman, was married to an abusive and hot-tempered man—until he suddenly died. Was it the mushrooms he ate? Or the arsenic Mabel had recently purchased? While the village gossips were ready to declare Mabel guilty, Miss Marple was determined to clear her niece’s name and set everything straight . . . Originally published in the United States in Detective StoryMagazine in 1928, “The Thumb Mark of St. Peter” appeared in Christie’s short story collection, The Thirteen Problems, in 1932.

Miss Jane Marple is throwing a party, and the guests all have a story to tell--thirteen in all--each involving evil deeds and clever deduction. Reissue.

On Tuesday evening a group gathers at Miss Marple's house and the conversations turns to unsolved crimes: the case of the disappearing bloodstains; the thief who committed his crime twice over; the strange case of the invisible will; and the death-bed message about a "heap of fish".

Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot both make appearances in Agatha Christie’s Double Sin and Other Stories, a sterling collection of short mystery fiction that offers double the suspense, surprise, and fun. In one of London’s most elegant shops, a decorative doll dressed in green velvet adopts some rather human, and rather sinister, traits. A country gentleman is questioned about a murder yet to be committed. While summoning spirits, a medium is drawn closer to the world of the dead than she ever dared imagine possible. In a small country church, a dying man’s last word becomes both an elegy and a clue to a crime. These chilling stories, and more, cleverly wrought by master Agatha Christie and solved by the inimitable Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple.

Marking the 125th anniversary of Agatha Christie's birth, this new edition offers an informed introductin to the chief proponent of the English village murder mystery. Although she created two enormously popular characters - the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, and the inquisitive elderly spinster and amateur sleuth Miss Jane Marple of St Mary Mead - it is not generally acknowledged that Agatha Christie wrote in many different genres: comic mysteries (Why Didn't They Ask Evans?), atmospheric whodunits (Murder On The Orient Express), espionage thrillers (N or M?), romances (under the pseudonym of Mary Westmacott), plays (The Mousetrap) and poetry. This guide examines all of Christie's novels and short stories and lists the various TV and film adaptations of her works.

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