Everything was perfect when Dolly Bantry woke up at home in the quiet village of St. Mary Mead. Perfect—until the body of a young woman was discovered in the room that housed the family library. According to the doctor, she had been strangled the previous evening before midnight. Yet no one in the house knew this attractive blonde. So who was she, and who could have killed her? Suspicion immediately fell on Dolly's husband, a retired colonel with a reputation for womanizing. He swears he's never seen the girl. But how did she end up in his library? Dolly then calls on her old friend Miss Marple to find the real killer—or uncover the terrible truth about her husband...