A Caribbean Mystery:
Miss Marple dozes in the West Indian sun, an old soldier talks of elephant-shooting and scandals.
Then he dies- and the deceptively frail detective investigates a most exotic murder...
 
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd:
In the quiet village of King's Abbot a widow's suicide has stirred suspicion-and dreadful gossip. There are rumors she murdered her first husband, rumors that she was being blackmailed, rumors that her secret lover was Roger Ackroyd, who was stabbed to death in his study. And there are rumors that his neighbor, Hercule Poirot, doesn't have a clue. Setting up the traditional rules of mystery only to shatter them with glee, Agatha Christie startled fans with this ingeniously tricky whodunit, which remains one of the most famous detective novels ever written and certainly one of the most delightfully controversial. As Dorothy L. Sayers said of it, "It's the reader's business to suspect everyone." And you will.