When Miss Marple complains of feeling old and helpless, her doctor jokingly suggests that she needs a murder to solve. Then there is a death in the village. Is it murder? Did the right person die? Suddenly, Jane Marple has a new interest in life. The modernisation of St Mary Mead has distressed its older inhabitants. The friendly corner shop is now a gleaming new supermarket and what was once a green field is now a large modern housing estate. The village isn't like it used to be, they remark sadly. Miss Jane Marple, shrewd as ever, knows that the people haven't changed. She is proved right when the garden fete at Gossington Hall attracts a huge crowd eager to inspect its glamourous film star owners. And when tragedy strikes this happy occasion, the rumours begin and the gossip. Some creases.
