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Agatha Christie
A Caribbean Mystery
A Miss Marple Mystery
To my old friend John Cruickshank Rose with happy memories of my visit to the West Indies
Contents
Cover
Title Page
Dedication
1.
Major Palgrave Tells a Story
2.
Miss Marple Makes Comparisons
3.
A Death in the Hotel
4.
Miss Marple Seeks Medical Attention
5.
Miss Marple Makes a Decision
6.
In the Small Hours
7.
Morning on the Beach
8.
A Talk with Esther Walters
9.
Miss Prescott and Others
10.
A Decision in Jamestown
11.
Evening at the Golden Palm
12.
Old Sins Cast Long Shadows
13.
Exit Victoria Johnson
14.
Inquiry
15.
Inquiry Continued
16.
Miss Marple Seeks Assistance
17.
Mr. Rafiel Takes Charge
18.
Without Benefit of Clergy
19.
Uses of a Shoe
20.
Night Alarm
21.
Jackson on Cosmetics
22.
A Man in Her Life?
23.
The Last Day
24.
Nemesis
25.
Miss Marple Uses Her Imagination
Epilogue
About the Author
Other Books by Agatha Christie
Copyright
About the Publisher
One
MAJOR PALGRAVE TELLS A STORY
“Take all this business about Kenya,” said Major Palgrave.
“Lots of chaps gabbing away who know nothing about the place! Now I spent fourteen years of my life there. Some of the best years of my life, too—”
Old Miss Marple inclined her head.
It was a gentle gesture of courtesy. Whilst Major Palgrave proceeded with the somewhat uninteresting recollections of a lifetime, Miss Marple peacefully pursued her own thoughts. It was a routine with which she was well acquainted. The locale varied. In the past, it had been predominantly India. Majors, Colonels, Lieutenant-Generals—and a familiar series of words: Simla. Bearers. Tigers. Chota Hazri—Tiffin. Khitmagars, and so on. With Major Palgrave the terms were slightly different. Safari. Kikuyu. Elephants. Swahili. But the pattern was essentially the same. An elderly man who needed a listener so that he could, in memory, relive days in which he had been happy. Days when his back had been straight, his eyesight keen, his hearing acute. Some of these talkers had been handsome soldierly old boys, some again had been regrettably unattractive; and Major Palgrave, purple of face, with a glass eye, and the general appearance of a stuffed frog, belonged in the latter category.
Miss Marple had bestowed on all of them the same gentle charity. She had sat attentively, inclining her head from time to time in gentle agreement, thinking her own thoughts and enjoying what there was to enjoy: in this case the deep blue of a Caribbean Sea.
So kind of dear Raymond—she ............

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