It's seven in the morning. The Bantrys wake to find the body of a young woman in their library. She is wearing an evening dress and heavy makeup, which is now smeared across her cheeks. But who is she? How did she get there? And what is the connection with another dead girl, whose charred remains are later discovered in an abandoned quarry? The respectable Bantrys invite Miss Marple into their home to investigate. Amid rumors of scandal, she baits...

When Bobby Jones retrieves his wayward golf ball at the bottom of a cliff, he little expects to find a dying man. With his last breath, the man gasps, "Why didn't they ask Evans?" Intrigued by the question and the photograph of an attractive young woman he finds in the man's pocket, Bobby and his friend Lady Frances Derwent set out to solve the mystery.

Flighty but good-hearted Victoria Jones craves love, intrigue, and adventure. She strikes gold in Edward, a handsome and mysterious traveler whom she's vowed to follow to the ends of the earth. Yet no whirlwind affair can prepare Victoria for what unfolds once she lands in Baghdad. Not a day in Edward's shadow, and she hears whispered warnings of danger and witnesses the murder of a secret agent in her hotel room. And when she discovers that a romantic...

A prominent attorney's wife dies of cyanide poisoning; but when he attempts to recreate the crime scene, he, too, is poisoned. The heiress to the estate is the prime suspect, but there have been apparent attempts on her life also.

Poirot suspects that something is very wrong when he finds three mistakes in the letter typed by his perfect secretary.

When the residents of Lochdubh begin receiving poison pen letters, no one takes them seriously. But Constable Hamish Macbeth fears them, and his instincts prove correct when the postmistress is found hanging from a rope with a vicious poison pen letter at her feet.

Blight County, Idaho, is a pretty quiet county, so when Sheriff Bo Tully gets a call that there is a corpse draped over a fence outside of town, Tully goes out to investigate. Because it's his father's birthday, and he doesn't have a gift, Bo asks his father, the retired sheriff, to come along.

When a fundamentalist preacher turns up dead, all eyes turn to the wannabe witches in Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree's rental property. Jake must find out who the real killer is in the ninth title in the bestselling Home Repair is Homicide series.

Nero Wolfe refuses to accept a case concerning a girl accused of stealing diamonds, until he learns she claims to be his daughter.