An advertisement announcing the time and place of a forthcoming murder appears among the ads of the paper in the small village of Chipping Cleghorn.
When a party game goes horribly wrong, the attendees start to turn on each other. The only way to unravel this mystery, it seems, is to call in Miss Marple.
Inspector Craddock is stumped, but Miss Marple has her instincts to turn to, as she delves further into the victim's past.
Inspector Craddock is alarmed to find that Miss Marple has gone missing - has she become another victim of the murderer?
