First English edition, first impression June 1943. 8vo. pp 160. Red cloth boards lacking front and back endpapers otherwise very good condition.  A detective novel  first published in the USA by Dodd, Mead and Company in July 1942. A spate of poison pen letters wreaks havoc on an English village. Once a place of trust, now all inhabitants are full of accusations.   This novel features the elderly detective Miss Marple in a relatively minor role.