Miss Marple Box Set

This boxed collection gathers detective novels in which Jane Marple, an elderly resident of the English village of St Mary Mead, solves murders by matching them to the small-town types she has watched for years. Typical settings are country houses, vicarages, hotels, and respectable families whose gossip, wills, and household staff hide the crime. Recurring figures include local policemen, visiting relatives, and the inspector who learns to take her seriously. The books are separate cases rather than one continuous plot: each turns on a death that looks like accident, suicide, or a stranger's work until village analogy explains it. The set is a group of village mysteries, not a single novel.

Bound in buckram, each volume a different colour and blocked with a design by Andrew Davidson. Four-volume title blocked dark grey slipcase.