At the fourth meeting of the Tuesday Night Club, the painter Joyce Lemprière presents her mystery. During a holiday in which she was working on one of his paintings, she accidentally painted drops of blood on the pavement. Within a few minutes, the blood was gone. Joyce later learned that a woman had drowned after suffering a severe blow to the head. The group must discover if the blood was just was just a trick of Joyce's imagination and if the death was accidental or premeditated.

A classic Agatha Christie short story, featuring Miss Marple, from the collection Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories. Joyce Lempiere tells the Tuesday Night Club of an incident that occurred five years ago when she was vacationing at a small inn on the Cornish coast. She was painting a picture of the front of the inn, including details of wet bathing suits drying on the balcony of Denis and Margery Dacre, when she realised she had included blood stains on the pavement. A few days later Margery is found dead, having drowned, and the Club are called to solve the mystery.

When her friends from the Tuesday Night Club visit Miss Marple’s house the conversation often turns to unsolved crimes. Trying to solve these five mysteries from The Thirteen Problems are Raymond West, a young writer, the artist Joyce Lempriere, Dr Pender the clergyman, who claims to know the hidden side of human character, and Mr Petherick, a lawyer who is only interested in the logical approach. Sir Henry Clithering’s experience as commissioner of Scotland Yard speaks for itself. And then there is Miss Marple, the gentle lady with snowy hair and pale blue eyes who betters them all. Read by Joan Hickson who played Miss Marple in the popular BBC television series.

On Tuesday evening a group gathers at Miss Marple's house and the conversations turns to unsolved crimes: the case of the disappearing bloodstains; the thief who committed his crime twice over; the strange case of the invisible will; and the death-bed message about a "heap of fish".

During a meeting, a pretty representative gathering agrees to form a club that will meet to discover the solution to different crimes. Among them is a kind old woman, Miss Marple, who knows human nature deeply. In this great introductory short story the group turn to Sir Henry Clithering's tale. Everyone will be surprised when find out who was the real culprit of Mrs. Jones' murder.

An all-new collection of summer-themed mysteries from the master of the genre, just in time for the holiday season.