{"product_id":"miss-marple-omnibus2","title":"Miss Marple Omnibus-2","description":"\u003cp\u003eProduct Description\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eAnother four of Agatha Christie’s twelve, celebrated Miss Marple novels in a single volume, bound in the stylish livery of the new series.\u003cbr\u003e\nA Caribbean MysteryAs Miss Marple dozes in the West Indian sun, an old soldier talks of elephant shooting and scandals. Then he dies – shortly after offering to show her a picture of a murderer. It’s not long before the deceptively frail detective finds herself investigating a most exotic murder…\u003cbr\u003e\nA Pocket Full of RyeRex Fortescue, ‘king’ of a financial empire, was in his counting house; his ‘queen’ was in the parlour…and that’s exactly where they were when they died. There are baffling similarities between the rhyme and the crime and it takes all Miss Marple’s ingenuity to find them…\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Mirror Crack’d from Side to SideMarina Gregg, the famous actress, witnesses a murder in her country home. But what gave her the expression of frozen terror that only Dolly Bantry saw? Dolly, of course, knows just who can find out: her old friend Miss Marple…\u003cbr\u003e\nThey Do It With MirrorsTo fulfil a promise to an old schoolfriend, Miss Marple stays in a country house – with 200 juvenile delinquents and seven heirs to an old lady’s fortune. One of them is a murderer – with, it seems, a talent for being in two places at once…\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eReview\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003cp\u003e‘Throws off false clues and misleading events as only a master of the art can do’New York Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the Back Cover\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003cp\u003e'four of agatha christie's twelve miss marple novels in a single volume'\u003cbr\u003e\n'a caribbean mystery'It seems nothing will stem Major Palgrave's tiresome stories – except his untimely death. Could it be coincidence that just before he died he was about to show Miss Marple a photograph of a murderer? Or that he was about to hand the snapshot over something, or someone, caught his eye and made him turn pale and change the subject? Miss Marple thinks not…\u003cbr\u003e\n'a pocket full of rye'Rex Fortesque, 'king' of financial empire, was in his counting house; his 'queen' was in her parlour – when both ingested lethal qualities of deadly poison. The clues to these ruthless murders demonstrate terrifying similarities between the rhyme and the crime, and it will take all of Miss Marple's ingenuity to find them…\u003cbr\u003e\n'the mirror crack'd from side to side'Marina Gregg, the famous actress, witnesses a murder in her new country home – but only Dolly Bantry witnesses the look of absolute horror on Marina's face. Dolly describes it to Jane Marple, as the look of 'The Lady of Shallot' as she cries ''The doom has come upon me'' – but Miss Marple wonders exactly whose doom Marina has foreseen…\u003cbr\u003e\n'they do it with mirrors'To fulfil a promise to an old schoolfriend, Miss Marple stays in an old country house – with 200 juvenile delinquents and seven heirs to an old lady's fortune. One of them is a murderer – with a talent, it seems, for being in two places at once…\u003cbr\u003e\n'Throws off the false clues and misleading events as only a master of the art can do''New York Times'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eAgatha Christie was born in Torquay in 1890 and became, quite simply, the best-selling novelist in history. Her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, written towards the end of the First World War, introduced us to Hercule Poirot, who was to become the most popular detective in crime fiction since Sherlock Holmes. She is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and another billion in over 100 foreign languages. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 19 plays, and six novels under the name of Mary Westmacott.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxfordbookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45170369593523,"sku":"9780006499602","price":639.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0718\/4164\/4723\/files\/61XWoqf3l8L.jpg?v=1765281731","url":"https:\/\/oxfordbookstore.com\/products\/miss-marple-omnibus2","provider":"Oxfordbookstore ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}