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Agatha Christie Miss Marple and Mystery The Complete Short Stories HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF This collection first published 2008 Copyright © 2008 Agatha Christie Ltd Agatha Christie asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work A catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library The publishers would like to acknowledge the help of Karl Pike in the preparation of this volume. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this ebook onscreen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins ebooks HarperCollinsPublishers has made every reasonable effort to ensure that any picture content and written content in this ebook has been included or removed in accordance with the contractual and technological constraints in operation at the time of publication Source ISBN: 9780007284184 Ebook Edition © JULY 2011 ISBN: 9780007438976 Version: 2018-10-08 Contents Stories featuring Miss Marple appear in bold Copyright Author’s Foreword to Miss Marple and the Thirteen Problems 1. The Actress 2. The Girl in the Train 3. While the Light Lasts 4. The Red Signal 5. The Mystery of the Blue Jar 6. Jane in Search of a Job 7. Mr Eastwood’s Adventure 8. Philomel Cottage 9. The Manhood of Edward Robinson 10. The Witness for the Prosecution 11. Wireless 12. Within a Wall 13. The Listerdale Mystery 14. The Fourth Man 15. The House of Dreams 16. S.O.S. 17. Magnolia Blossom 18. The Lonely God 19. The Rajah’s Emerald 20. Swan Song 21. The Last Séance 22. The Edge 23. The Tuesday Night Club 24. The Idol House of Astarte 25. Ingots of Gold 26. The Bloodstained Pavement 27. Motive v. Opportunity 28. The Thumb Mark of St Peter 29. A Fruitful Sunday 30. The Golden Ball 31. Accident 32. Next to a Dog 33. Sing a Song of Sixpence 34. The Blue Geranium 35. The Companion 36. The Four Suspects 37. A Christmas Tragedy 38. The Herb of Death 39. The Affair at the Bungalow 40. Manx Gold 41. Death by Drowning 42. The Hound of Death 43. The Gipsy 44. The Lamp 45. The Strange Case of Sir Arthur Carmichael 46. The Call of Wings 47. In a Glass Darkly 48. Miss Marple Tells a Story 49. Strange Jest 50. Tape-Measure Murder 51. The Case of the Caretaker 52. The Case of the Perfect Maid 53. Sanctuary 54. Greenshaw’s Folly 55. The Dressmaker’s Doll Appendix: Short Story Chronology Also by the Author Also in this Series Agatha Christie: Miss Marple Omnibus Agatha Christie: Miss Marple Omnibus Agatha Christie: Miss Marple Omnibus Agatha Christie: Hercule Poirot: The Complete Short Stories Also Available Agatha Christie: The Mary Westmacott Collection Agatha Christie: The Mary Westmacott Collection
Author’s Foreword to Miss Marple and the Thirteen Problems
These problems were Miss Marple’s first introduction to the world of detective story readers. Miss Marple has some faint affinity with my own grandmother, also a pink and white pretty old lady who, although having led the most sheltered and Victorian of lives, nevertheless always appeared to be intimately acquainted with all the depths of human depravity. One could be made to feel incredibly naïve and credulous by her reproachful remark: ‘But did you believe what they said to you? You shouldn’t
