Agatha Christie’s charming mystery introduces Miss Jane Marple, the deceptively shrewd elderly spinster who would become one of fiction’s most beloved sleuths.

When the universally despised Colonel Protheroe is found shot dead in the local vicar’s study, the village of St. Mary Mead has no shortage of suspects—or confessions. Miss Marple quietly observes it all, her keen understanding of human nature sharpened by decades of village life.

As she listens to gossip over cups of tea and watches everyone in her town closely, Miss Marple brilliantly untangles the lies behind all of their polite facades. Cleverly plotted and warmly observed, The Murder at the Vicarage captures Christie at her coziest.