Elspeth McGillicuddy is not given to hallucinations. Until she witnesses a murder at Paddington Station. But did she? No victim, no suspect, no other witnesses. In fact no one believes it really happened at all. Except her friend Miss Jane Marple, and she's returning to the scene of the crime to discover just exactly what Mrs. McGillicuddy saw.

Sleeping murder: Giles and Gwenda Reed move into a dream house only to be haunted by visions of a dead body. To put the nightmares to rest, Miss Marple will have to awaken a killer. 4:50 from Paddington: A murder witnessed in a few brief seconds aboard a passing train lures Miss Marple into a web of family intrigue.

Malicious plots and lethal tricks reflect badly on the residents of a rambling country mansion.

Murder at the vicarage: Colonel Prothero has lots of enemies in the village of St. Mary's Mead and when he's found dead there are plenty of suspects, some with alibis and some with confessions. Nemesis: Not only does Miss Marple have to solve a crime, but she has to discover what it is. It begins with a cryptic letter from a recently deceased friend asking her to right an injustice, but giving no details--no who, what, when or where. Her only starting...

During a round of golf on a cliff-top course in Wales, Bobby Jones discovers a man lying gravely injured on the rocks below. His last words, "Why didn't they ask Evans?," leads Bobby and his friend on a quest to find out what happened to the man.

A poor stable boy whose undying devotion to a magnificent colt named Sham takes him on a journey from the arid deserts of Northern Africa to the court of the King of France and on to England where a remarkable turn of events unfolds.

Each author gives the mystery genre his or her own twist, with results from humorous to the macabre. You will visit conventional English drawing rooms, a boy's prep school, a luxury health spa and a snowbound hotel.