- The villagers of Chipping Cleghorn are summoned by a newspaper notice to the house of Letitia Blacklock, anticipating a murder game. But things become too real when someone is shot dead.
- The residents of Chipping Cleghorn are astonished to read an advert in the local newspaper that a murder will take place the following Friday at 7:30 p.m. at Little Paddocks, the home of Letitia Blacklock. A group gathers and at that precise moment, the lights go out and a young hotel employee, Rudi Schertz, is shot. The police assume he had placed the ad and planned it as a robbery, but for Miss Marple it's not that obvious. She believes that the killer was likely one of the people in the room. When two of those present the evening of the murder are subsequently killed, it is left to Miss Marple to unravel a complex series of relationships and false identities, all centered around Randall Goedler a wealthy industrialist who had died 10 years earlier.—garykmcd
- The local newspaper in the village of Chipping Cleghorn are astonished, and mostly amused, when a personal ad is posted announcing a murder. It gives the time and place, a house in the village. A party is being held at that time and place and at the exact time announced an intruder bursts in, wanting money. He fires a few shots, hitting one of the woman at the party, and leaves. Upon exiting the room, the party-goers find him dead in the next room, shot. He was a Swiss hotel concierge from the village. The police think it was a prank and that the man committed suicide after hitting the woman and panicking. Miss Marple is in the village and thinks it was murder.—grantss
- The guests to the house party in Elish village Chipping Cleghorn expected the advertisement of a murder then just a game, but hostess Letitia Blacklock is shot just after a power cut, albeit mildly bleeding from an ear, while the intruding shooter lies dies dead besides his fatal Luger. It's Swiss luxury hotel concierge Rudi Schertz, who was hired for a 'party prank robbery'. Police detectives inspector Dermot Craddock and sergeant Fletcher learn to appreciate the sharp observations and questions of guest Jane Marple, who helps examining all guest, from the paranoid Polish aid to the colonial colonel Easterbrook, hiding he was dismissed for drunk violence, and the covert mystery heirs of the widow of a Scottish stock tycoon. The same goes for the MO, using a recently reopened passage to the living and controlled blinding. two of the guests are killed at home, knowing too much even before Marple, who still solves all.—KGF Vissers
- In Chipping Cleghorn, a little town in England, where everyone reads the local newspaper, a murder is announced. An advertisement reads: A murder is announced and will take place on Friday, October 29th, at Little Paddocks, at 6:30 p.m.... All the residents of the town expect that it is a murder mystery party at Letitia Blacklock's house, as she lives at Little Paddocks. Little do they know that they'll all show up for it, one by one, only to have the power go out and have shots fired. None of the guests at the party die though; it's the blonde man with a gun that is found in the doorway that has been murdered. Everyone assumes it's suicide, but the police have a different idea...—unknown
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