Oh, I do like this book. But then, Agatha Christie and Miss Marple rarely disappoint. An old school chum is worried about her sister, Carrie Louise, and wants Miss Marple to go check out the situation. Carrie Louise is currently running a boarding school for juvenile delinquents with her third husband. The money comes from her first husband with whom she had one biological and one adopted daughter. The biological daughter, the third husband, the now-deceased adopted daughter's daughter and her husband, and one of Carrie Louise's stepsons from her second marriage are all living out the house. But this is not a happy family. No. The stepson is trying to inveigle the granddaughter away from her sullen American husband, Wally. Mildred (the biological daughter) has always felt second best, first to her adopted sister and now the the sister's child. Of course, there are all those at-risk youths running around and now Carrie Louise's stepson by her first marriage has shown up with concerns, but he won't tell anyone but the third husband (Lewis) what those concerns are. Then one night, one of the delinquents takes a shot at Lewis but, while he survives, the stepson from the first marriage is dead.
Who killed him? Why? Is someone really poisoning Carrie Louise?
It's a tangled web that only Miss Marple can solve (though with a touch of stereotyping).
Four stars
This book came out in 1952
Follows Three Blind Mice and Other Stories
Borrowed as audiobook from Libby
Opinions are my own
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