With Miss Marple's help, she discovers that the murder she'd witnessed was that or her stepmother, Helen Kennedy. Despite Miss Marple's advice to leave Sleeping Murder be, she decides to keep digging and search for the truth.
When a young bride moves into a country manor, long repressed childhood memories of witnessing a murder come to the surface.
Miss Marple takes a well earned holiday at Bertram's, a Hotel she stayed in as a child. It seems familiar, but underneath the dainty teas and classy clientele, Bertram's hides a secret.
Canon Pennyfather returns to Bertram's, but struggles to explain his disappearance, could he have been on The Irish Mail Train, robbing it?
Miss Marple receives word that her friend Jason Rafiel has died. In his will, he asks that she attended a coach tour, her aim, to unearth a mystery.
Elizabeth Temple is badly injured, she sends for Jane Marple, and manages to relay one piece of information, 'ask them about Verity.'
A friend of Miss Marple's sees a woman being strangled in a passing train. When police cannot find a body and doubt the story, Miss Marple enlists professional housekeeper, Lucy Eyelesbarrow, to go undercover.
Chief Inspector Duckham insists that Miss Marple is directly involved in the investigation. Miss Marple makes a startling discovery about the Crackenthorpe's family will. The killer strikes again, this time it's Harold.
While on vacation at a resort hotel in the West Indies, Miss Marple correctly suspects that the apparently natural death of a retired British major is actually the work of a murderer planning yet another killing.
When Miss Marple is invited to the manor house of an old friend, it is not long before a puzzling murder puts her mind to work.
At a reception for a fading film star making a screen comeback, a gushing, pushy fan is poisoned by a drink apparently meant for the actress.