paperback
217 pages
copyright 1965
ISBN 0-451-19993-6
AT BERTRAM'S HOTEL - AGATHA CHRISTIE
Miss Jane Marple is on vacation and loving every minute of her stay at London's eminently expensive bastion of tradition, Bertram's Hotel. But its impeccable old-world reputation is being tarnished - by new blood. for someone disreputable has just checked in. And what's now going on at the Betram's Hotel is a crime.
1. Michael Gorman is shot and killed.
2. Lady Bess Sedgwick is the brains behind the syndicate...uses Betram's Hotel as headquarters....doppelganger comment of Miss Marple.
3. She confesses to killing Michael Gorman, her ex-husband.
4. Miss Marple overheard Michael blackmailing Bess.....another person (Elvira) also overheard such.
paperback
213 pages
copyright 1971
ISBN 0-451-20018-7
NEMESIS - AGATHA CHRISTIE
Miss Jane Marple has received a most unexpected letter from the solicitors of her late friend Jason Rafiel: a generous inheritance, if she's willing to utilize her "natural flair for crime". It appears Mr. Rafiel wants Miss Marple to solve a crime. A particularly baffling one since since there are no clues as to what happened, when it supposedly occurred where it was committed or for that matter, to whom. In fact the puzzled sleuth has but one code word to work with: Nemesis.
1.
1. Clotilde Bradburry-Scotts poisoned Verity ..intended to poison Miss Marple with also with coffee knocked down by Miss Cooke...later replaced by milk.
2. Buried in the garden...polygonum blossom.
3. Clotilde also killed Nancy Broad, dressed her in Verity's clothes.
4. Clotilde responsible for rolling the boulder that killed Elizabeth Templeton, confidant of Verity.
5. Jane's 2 guardian angels: Miss Cooke and Miss Barrow.
6. Clotide kills herself upon her arrest by drinking the milk intended for Jane.
A novel that adheres to the classic mystery formula, as well as transcends it, Sleeping Murder --- published the year of Agatha Christie's death--- marks the final appearance of her popular sleuth. And this time "Christie makes us feel her shiver" (]New York Times) as the usually unflappable Miss Jane Marple delves into the moral complexities of an immoral crime. Gwenda Reed's new home Gwenda Reed's new home, a charming Victorian villa, is giving the lovely new bride the strangest feeling of deja-vu, and an unnatural dread that's taking its toll. But how can her husband's aunt, Miss Marple, solve a mystery such as this when the only clues are those in Gwenda's vivid imagination? As Aunt Jane digs a little deeper she's soon to discover just how truthful -- and terrifying --- the imagination can be.
1. Dr. Kennedy killed Helen, step-mother of Gwenda.
2. He also killed Lily.
3. Lines in the Duchess of Malfi...clue to everything...said by the brother who has just contrived his sister's death to avenge her marriage to the man she loved.