The local police are stumped but Miss Marple’s sharp eyes find a clue that everyone else deems unimportant that allows her to pin down the murderer. In “Tape-Measure Murder”, a dress fitter attends a client only to find that she’s dead. However, it seems the old man was fond of jokes, and it takes Miss Marple’s memories of an old uncle to work out where the rest of the money is hidden. In the second story, “Strange Jest”, a young couple are foxed when their wealthy uncle dies having left them far less money than they thought he would. When it is discovered that he had recently escaped from jail and he’s left a suitcase at Paddington station, Miss Marple and vicar’s wife Bunch set about trying to find out why he came to be at that church in particular. I covered that one there, so here’s a brief rundown on the other eight.įirst up is “Sanctuary”, in which a down-and-out man is found dying in a church after weakly asking for sanctuary. The final story, “Greenshaw’s Folly”, I read feeling like I’d definitely read it before, then realised I had, as it’s also in The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding. The collection is of nine stories, seven of which contain Miss Marple and two are more supernatural in their nature and feature none of the usual characters. Thus, I bring you Miss Marple’s Final Cases, a collection of short stories about everyone’s favourite old lady.
I decided it was time to slip back a bit, but I only made it as far as the seventies.
In fact, this year the blog has been very heavy with contemporary releases. I checked back, and all the books I’ve read recently seem to have been published in the last few years. “The vicar’s wife came round the corner of the vicarage with her arms full of chrysanthemums.”
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