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    The Thumb Mark of St Peter: A Miss Marple Short Story
    The Thumb Mark of St Peter: A Miss Marple Short Story
    The Thumb Mark of St Peter: A Miss Marple Short Story
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    The Thumb Mark of St Peter: A Miss Marple Short Story

    By Agatha Christie

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    A classic Agatha Christie short story, featuring Miss Marple, from the collection Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories.

    Fifteen years ago, Miss Marple’s niece, Mabel Denman, was accused of murdering her abusive and violent husband. Can Miss Marple clear her niece’s name and reveal the true perpetrator?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateMay 8, 2012
    ISBN9780062211026
    The Thumb Mark of St Peter: A Miss Marple Short Story
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    Agatha Christie

    Agatha Christie is known throughout the world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have sold over a billion copies in English with another billion in over 70 foreign languages. She is the most widely published author of all time and in any language, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. She is the author of 80 crime novels and short story collections, 20 plays, and six novels written under the name of Mary Westmacott.

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      The Thumb Mark of St Peter - Agatha Christie

      The Thumb Mark of St. Peter

      A Miss Marple Short Story

      by Agatha Christie

      An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers

      Contents

      Cover

      Title Page

      The Thumb Mark of St. Peter

      About the Author

      Back Ads

      Copyright

      About the Publisher

      The Thumb Mark of St. Peter

      ‘The Thumb Mark of St Peter’ was first published in The Royal Magazine, May 1928, and in the USA as ‘The Thumb-Mark of St Peter’ in Detective Story Magazine, 7 July 1928.

      ‘And now, Aunt Jane, it is up to you,’ said Raymond West.

      ‘Yes, Aunt Jane, we are expecting something really spicy,’ chimed in Joyce Lemprière.

      ‘Now, you are laughing at me, my dears,’ said Miss Marple placidly. ‘You think that because I have lived in this out-of-the-way spot all my life I am not likely to have had any very interesting experiences.’

      ‘God forbid that I should ever regard village life as peaceful and uneventful,’ said Raymond with fervour. ‘Not after the horrible revelations we have heard from you! The cosmopolitan world seems a mild and peaceful place compared with St Mary Mead.’

      ‘Well, my dear,’ said Miss Marple, ‘human nature is much the same everywhere, and, of course, one has opportunities of observing it at close quarters in a village.’

      ‘You really are unique, Aunt Jane,’ cried Joyce. ‘I hope you don’t mind me calling you Aunt Jane?’ she added. ‘I don’t know why I do it.’

      ‘Don’t you, my dear?’ said Miss Marple.

      She looked up for a moment or two with something quizzical in her glance, which

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