Le colonel Bantry est contrarié : une jeune femme, vêtue d'une toilette tape-à-l'œil, a été retrouvée étranglée dans sa bibliothèque ! Cruelle énigme pour la police. Heureusement, le manoir des Bantry est situé non loin du village de miss Marple. Cette sympathique vieille dame pleine de bon sens permettra, une fois de plus, de dénouer toute l'affaire.

Agatha Christie’s world-famous Miss Marple mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. It’s seven in the morning. The Bantrys wake to find the body of a young woman in their library. She is wearing evening dress and heavy make-up, which is now smeared across her cheeks. But who is she? How did she get there? And what is the connection with another dead girl, whose charred remains are later discovered in an abandoned quarry? The respectable Bantrys invite Miss Marple to solve the mystery… before tongues start to wag.