A Murder is Announced. Agatha Christie

      

      

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      First published in Great Britain by Collins, The Crime Club 1950

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      Source ISBN: 9780008196554

      Ebook Edition © December 2016 ISBN: 9780007422524

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       Dedication

       To Ralph and Anne Newman

       at whose house I first tasted

       ‘Delicious Death!’

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Dedication

       Chapter 1: A Murder is Announced

       Chapter 2: Breakfast at Little Paddocks

       Chapter 3: At 6.30 p.m.

       Chapter 4: The Royal Spa Hotel

       Chapter 5: Miss Blacklock and Miss Bunner

       Chapter 6: Julia, Mitzi and Patrick

      

       Chapter 7: Among Those Present

      

       Chapter 8: Enter Miss Marple

      

       Chapter 9: Concerning a Door

      

       Chapter 10: Pip and Emma

      

       Chapter 11: Miss Marple Comes to Tea

      

       Chapter 12: Morning Activities in Chipping Cleghorn

      

       Chapter 13: Morning Activities in Chipping Cleghorn (Continued)

      

       Chapter 14: Excursion into The Past

      

       Chapter 15: Delicious Death

      

       Chapter 16: Inspector Craddock Returns

      

       Chapter 17: The Album

      

       Chapter 18: The Letters

      

       Chapter 19: Reconstruction of the Crime

      

       Chapter 20: Miss Marple is Missing

      

       Chapter 21: Three Women

      

       Chapter 22: The Truth

      

       Chapter 23: Evening at the Vicarage