Chris Petit

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.

In 1970s Britain, a man drives from London to Bristol to investigate his brother's death, and the purpose of his trip is offset by his encounters with a series of odd people.

Cordelia Gray is hired by a businessman to investigate the suicide of his estranged son. However, the young private detective soon develops feelings for the dead young man which thrust her into danger.