Alicia Coombe manages her very smart dressmaking business with the help of her young assistant, Sybil. One day, a doll appears in the shop—a floppy, long-legged doll that sits itself on the best sofa. But where did it come from, and why does it appear to watch them?

Thirty years ago, a house was inhabited by a man and his young son. One day the man traveled to London, was recognized as a criminal, and shot himself. What ever happened to the boy?

In this classic mystery, Miss Marple gets her first full-length novel as she investigates an unholy crime in a clergyman’s study.

Time is ticking away for a murderer in Agatha Christie’s classic, as Hercule Poirot investigates the strange case of a corpse surrounded by numerous timepieces in a blind woman’s house.