"At my time of life, one knows that the worst is usually true" sighs old Miss Jane Marple in her first full novel. St Mary's Mead vicar Len Clement narrates. When hated wealthy Colonel Protheroe is shot in Len's office, Jane alibis both heir, wife Anne, and Anne's lover Lawrence. Curate admits guilt for embezzlement and murder by his suicide -- until he survives.
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"At my time of life, one knows that the worst is usually true" sighs old Miss Jane Marple in her first full novel. St Mary's Mead vicar Len Clement narrates. When hated wealthy Colonel Protheroe is shot in Len's office, Jane alibis both heir, wife Anne, and Anne's lover Lawrence. Curate admits guilt for embezzlement and murder by his suicide -- until he survives.