Patrick Barlow

While visiting her friend Marjorie Attfield, Miss Marple learns that her son Bobby had recently found a body, identified as a Mr. Pritchard, on the cliff side. The key to solving the mystery of Pritchard's last words to Bobby as he lay dying: "Why didn't they ask Evans?"

Something wicked this way comes to the Sunny Ridge Retirement Home for Ladies. Miss Marple teams up with detective duo Tommy and Tuppence to investigate the suspicious death of Tommy's Aunt Ada and sudden disappearance of Ada's friend, Mrs. Lancaster, both residents of Sunny Ridge. An oddly doctored painting and tantalizing crossword clues lead Tuppence and and Miss Marple to Farrell St. Edmund, a village that seems straight out of a fairy tale complete...