Paperback, 192 pages
English language
Published Feb. 14, 1970 by Pocket Books.
The very-respectable Colonel and Mrs Bantry have awakened to discover the body of a young woman in their library. She is wearing evening dress and heavy make-up, which is now smeared across her cold cheeks. But who is she? How did she get there? And what is her connection with another dead girl, whose charred remains are later discovered in an abandoned quarry? The Bantrys turn to Miss Marple to solve the mystery.
The denouement seems more contrived than usual, but I confess this is the first Miss Marple novel I’ve read. I’m more familiar with the Hercule Poirot books. It has a healthy amount of humor amid a dark view of human nature.
