The Murder at the Vicarage: The First Miss Marple Mystery

The famous novel in which the Queen of Crime introduced one of her most beloved characters, the indomitable Miss Marple.

St. Mary Mead appears to be a typically quaint English country village, but many dark secrets lurk under its placid surface--and its most unobtrusive resident, the elderly Miss Jane Marple, is equally easy to underestimate.

When Colonel Protheroe, the exceedingly disagreeable local magistrate, is found shot to death in the vicar's study, the police are confounded. Nearly ev...