The mirror crack'd: Movie star Marina Gregg stars in a real-life mystery when her biggest fan is poisoned. Scene stealer Miss Jane Marple suspects that the lethal cocktail was intended for someone else, and wonders who's next for a final fade-out.

A Caribbean mystery: As Miss Marple sat basking in the Caribbean sunshine, she felt mildly discontented with life. True, the warmth eased her rheumatism, but here in paradise nothing ever happened. Eventually, her interest was aroused by an old soldier's yarn about a murderer he had known. Infuriatingly, just as he was about to show her a snapshot of this acquaintance, the Major was suddenly interrupted. A diversion that was to prove fatal.

Nemesis: Miss Marple must manage to solve a murder mystery that not only has no weapon, no suspects, and no body, but also no evidence! Her entire case? Her only lead? Just one word: nemesis.

What Mrs. McGillicuddy saw!: She was the only witness to a murder! Standing with his back to her was a man. His hands were around a woman's throat. He was slowly, relentlessly strangling her. As Mrs. McGillicuddy watched, fascinated, the end came. The body went limp and crumpled in the man's hands. Nobody believed Mrs. McGillicuddy... because there was no corpse! Nobody, that is, except an old lady named Jane Marple, who figured out where the body was hidden--and then showed Scotland Yard how to trap the killer!

The body in the library: Colonel Bantry has found the strangled body of an exotic blonde bombshell lying on his library hearth - and the neighbors are beginning to talk! When Miss Marple takes an interest, though, things begin to move along nicely, and its all far more convoluted - and sordid - than the genteel Bantrys could have imagined. A curmudgeonly financier, his self-absorbed adult children, a couple of pragmatic and clever hotel workers, tons of money and influence, a wild local lad, some smitten girls, the film business, mix into a classic Christie plot filled with twists, turns, and double-backs galore. Plus the glorious settings of A Great House, a fancy Hotel, and an excessively genteel little village, and let's not forget Miss Marple.