Quick recap
Newlywed Gwenda Reed buys a house on the English coast. Soon she feels she knows every corner: where a door used to be, what the hidden wallpaper looked like. At the theater, during "The Duchess of Malfi," one line makes her scream: she remembers seeing, as a little girl, a blonde woman named Helen being strangled in the hall of that house. Helen was the second wife of Gwenda's father, who died in a sanatorium believing he had killed her. A former maid is strangled before she can say what she saw, and Helen's body turns up in the garden. The killer is Dr. Kennedy, Helen's half brother. Miss Marple stops him with a spray of soapy water.
No spoilersOpens once you mark the title as seen.