The Murder at the Vicarage: Original Classic 1930 Edition

A furtive and bizarre murder in the vicarage of the quaint English town of St. Mary Mead has the authorities baffled. The victim is the disagreeable Colonel Protheroe, who is universally disliked.

“Anyone who murdered Colonel Protheroe,” declares the the vicar, in whose study the colonel is found dead, “would be doing the world at large a favour!”

Many others in the village have said that they would like to see the colonel dead, but a number of people have a more specific interest in his deat...