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A Christmas Tragedy: A Short Story (Miss Marple Mysteries)
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bookshelves: audio, agatha-christie, hoopla, mystery, read-in-2022, short-stories, read-in-a-different-collection
Oct 04, 2022
bookshelves: audio, agatha-christie, hoopla, mystery, read-in-2022, short-stories, read-in-a-different-collection
Miss Marple knows a murdering husband when she sees one.
Even if she can't prove it right away.
Jane Marple recounts the time she couldn't save an adoring wife from her treacherous spouse. Without any proof and only her intuition to go on, she couldn't convince the young woman that her husband was eyeballing the windfall he would receive upon her death.
But when the young bride turns up dead and the husband has an airtight alibi for the time of her murder, even Miss Marple starts to believe that she might have been wrong.
OR SO THE HUSBAND THINKS.
You can't pull the wool over Jane Marple's eyes for long, sir.
Originally published as The Hat and the Alibi in 1930 in The Story-Teller magazine.
Read in the short story collection Midwinter Murder: Fireside Tales from the Queen of Mystery.
Even if she can't prove it right away.
Jane Marple recounts the time she couldn't save an adoring wife from her treacherous spouse. Without any proof and only her intuition to go on, she couldn't convince the young woman that her husband was eyeballing the windfall he would receive upon her death.
But when the young bride turns up dead and the husband has an airtight alibi for the time of her murder, even Miss Marple starts to believe that she might have been wrong.
OR SO THE HUSBAND THINKS.
You can't pull the wool over Jane Marple's eyes for long, sir.
Originally published as The Hat and the Alibi in 1930 in The Story-Teller magazine.
Read in the short story collection Midwinter Murder: Fireside Tales from the Queen of Mystery.
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September 27, 2022
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