![]() Others claim Palgrave said it was not a photo of a wife killer but a husband killer. Miss Marple asks the others if Major Palgrave told people about the photo. The police are involved, and the cook, Enrico, tells them he saw Molly holding a steak knife before going outside. The following night, Tim finds Molly unconscious on the floor, apparently having taken an overdose of sleeping pills. Miss Marple finds Jackson looking at Molly's cosmetics he says that if belladonna were added to one of them, it would cause nightmares. That night, Victoria is found stabbed to death. Victoria informs the Kendals that she did not remember seeing the high blood pressure medication, Serenite, in Major Palgrave's room before his death, although it was found on his table after his death. Miss Marple corrects her that he had a glass eye, but she still says that it was evil. On the beach, Miss Marple sees Señora de Caspearo, a woman on holiday who says she remembers Major Palgrave because he had an 'evil eye'. Meanwhile, she interviews the others: Tim and Molly Kendal, owners of the hotel the Prescotts, a clergyman and his sister Mr Jason Rafiel, a tycoon confined to a wheelchair Jackson, his nurse/masseur/attendant/valet Esther Walters, his secretary the American Lucky Dyson and her husband, Greg and Edward and Evelyn Hillingdon. She asks Dr Graham to find the photo he mentioned, pretending it is of her nephew, but it is not found. The next day, when the maid Victoria finds Major Palgrave dead in his room, Miss Marple is convinced he was murdered. Miss Marple looks up to see why and spots several people nearby. ![]() When Palgrave asks her if she wants to see a picture of a murderer, she listens intently – but after he finds the snapshot in his wallet, he suddenly changes the subject. She sits, half listening, until Palgrave tells a story about a man who got away with murder more than once. She speaks with Major Palgrave, a well-travelled man with many stories to share. ![]() Miss Marple's nephew has paid for her to holiday there after a bout of ill health. This story takes place at the Golden Palm resort on the Caribbean island of St Honoré. Jason Rafiel reappears posthumously, and his assistant Esther Walters assists Miss Marple in the early chapters of the subsequent story. Two of the major characters reappear in the novel Nemesis, published in 1971. A critic writing in 1990 judged this plot to be standard fare for any writer who travels to the Caribbean and needs double duty out of a vacation. Two reviewers at the time the novel was published said that Agatha Christie was returning to the top of her form. The UK edition retailed at sixteen shillings (16/-) and the US edition at $4.50. Dust-jacket illustration of the first UK editionĪ Caribbean Mystery is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 16 November 1964 and in the United States by Dodd, Mead and Company the following year.
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