"I didn't want to appear vain," Miss Marple said, "but I couldn't help being just a teeny weeny bit pleased with myself, because, just by applying a little common sense, I believe I really did solve a problem that had baffled cleverer heads than mine. Though really I should have thought the whole thing was obvious from the beginning...
"A woman had been stabbed in her hotel room and her husband was under suspicion. But the situation boiled down to this--no one but the hus-band and the chambermaid had entered the vic-tim's room.
"I inquired about the chambermaid..."
"The champion deceiver of our time."
--NEW YORK TIMES
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MR. PARKER PYNE, DETECTIVE
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The Regatta Myster The Mystery of the How Does Your GoI'! Problem at Pollensa! Yellow Iris
Miss Marple Tells
The Dream
In a Glass Darkly Problem at Sea
Mr. Isaac Pointz removed a cigar from his lips and said approvingly:
"Pretty little place."
Having thus set the seal of his approval upon Dartmouth harbor, he .replaced the cigar and looked about him with the air of a man pleased with himself, his appearance, his surroundings and life generally.
As regards the first of these, Mr. Isaac Pointz was a man of fifty-eight, in good health and con-dition with perhaps a slight tendency to liver. He was not exactly stout, but comfortable-looking, and a yachting costume, which he wore at the mo-ment, is not the most kindly of attires far a middle-aged man with a tendency to embonpoint. Mr. Pointz was very well turned outmcorrect to every crease and button--his dark and slightly
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Oriental face beaming out under the peak of his yachting cap. As regards his surroundings, these may have been taken to mean his companions--his partner Mr. Leo Stein, Sir George and Lady Maroway, an American business acquaintance Mr. Samuel Leathern and his schoolgirl daughter Eve, Mrs. Rustington and Evan Llewellyn. The party had just come ashore from Mr. Pointz' yacht--the Merrirnaid. In the morning they had watched the yacht racing and they had now come ashore to join for a while in the fun of the fair--Coconut shies, Fat Ladies, the Human Spider and the Merry-go-round. It is hardly to be doubted that these delights were relished most by Eve Leathern. When Mr. Pointz finally suggested that it was time to adjourn to the Royal George for dinner hers was the only dissentient voice. "Oh, Mr. Pointz--I did so want to have my fortune told by the Real Gypsy in the Caravan." Mr. Pointz had doubts of the essential Realness of the Gypsy in question but he gave indulgent assent. "Eve's just crazy about the fair," said her
father apologetically. "But don't you pay any attention if you want to be getting along."
"Plenty of time," said Mr. Pointz benignantly. "Let the little lady enjoy herself. I'll take you on at darts, Leo." "Twenty-five and over wins a prize," chanted the man in charge of the darts in a high nasal voice. "Bet you a river my total score beats yours," said Pointz. "Done," said Stein with alacrity.
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