Twelve further adventures of Agatha Christie's Miss Marple, penned by twelve masters of crime. Poison disposes of poachers and patriarchs alike, striking on the high seas, at a wedding reception, and an Oxford college dinner. Valuable jewellery vanishes; inheritances are threatened; people disappear or drown or die. Fatal consequences are incurred from brawling amongst pigs, doing a spot of gardening - or simply being a new face in the village. From her little village of St Mary Mead to a Chinese cruise ship, from a run-down Manhattan theatre to an Italian villa, Miss Marple encounters mystery and murder wherever she goes. And this shrewd observer of human nature will untangle the threads of deceit to find the truth...