Miss Marple is on the case when a rash of poison pen letters in an East Anglian village stir up memories of a long-forgotten local incident.

The village seems to welcome them with open arms. But there are dark mysterious undercurrents at work and it's not long before Miss Marple comes to visit.

How many times must amateur sleuth Miss Marple have to investigate a murder ... colonel who turns up dead in the local vicarage. The finger of suspicion points to a number of locals, including ...