Ten strangers--each with a sordid past--are summoned by an absent millionaire to a private island off the coast of Devon and begin to die one by one upon arrival.
Miss Jane Marple investigates the poisoning death of a fan of Marina Gregg, the film star who recently took up residence in St. Mary Mead and may have been the killer's intended target.
In this collection of thirteen short stories, Miss Marple puts her deductive skills to use as a group of friends challenge each other with mysteries to which only the presenter knows the answer, and which the other friends must solve.
Inspector Needle isn't doing very well with his poison case at Yewtree Lodge. But when Miss Marple comes to the Lodge, angry at the murder of her former maid, the guilty one soon becomes apparent.
