A Stranger Arrives at Midnight | Miss Marple Reveals a Hidden Murder

Описание: A Stranger Arrives at Midnight | Miss Marple Reveals a Hidden Murder
On a moonless midnight in St. Mary Mead, a tall stranger in a dripping overcoat knocks at the door of the village’s oldest cottage, claiming his motorcar broke down on the flooded road. The elderly widow who lives alone reluctantly lets him in to shelter by the fire. By dawn, she is found dead in her armchair—eyes wide open, heart stopped—while the stranger has vanished without a trace. The police conclude natural causes; she was frail and the night was bitter. But Miss Marple, woken by the sound of an unfamiliar engine passing her own cottage window at exactly 12:17 a.m., knows the stranger was no accident of fate. As she quietly examines the hearth ashes, finds a single foreign coin dropped beside the chair, and pieces together who in the village had reason to fear a midnight visitor, she uncovers a hidden murder perfectly timed and perfectly disguised. A long-buried family disgrace, a forged death certificate from twenty years earlier, and a man who returned under cover of storm to silence the only witness who still remembered his real name. With the stranger’s car supposedly abandoned miles away and the next dark night approaching, can Miss Marple reveal the truth before the midnight visitor returns to finish what he started? Prepare for a heart-stopping mystery where every knock at midnight carries death—and the final revelation will make you fear the sound of footsteps in the rain!

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