Murder at the Vicarage

-Anyone who murdered Colonel Protheroe,- declared the parson, brandishing a carving knife above a joint of roast beef, -would be doing the world at large a favour!- It was a careless remark for a man of the cloth. And one which was to come back and haunt the clergyman just a few hours later - when the colonel was found shot dead in the clergyman-s study. But as Miss Marple -Anyone who murdered Colonel Protheroe,- declared the parson, brandishing a carving knife above a joint of roast beef, -would be doing the world at large a favour!- It was a careless remark for a man of the cloth.

And one which was to come back and haunt the clergyman just a few hours later - when the colonel was found shot dead in the clergyman-s study. But as Miss Marple soon discovers, the whole village seems to have had a motive to kill Colonel Protheroe.