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Most read it as a parlour-game invitation, an evening of staged entertainment, and so a small crowd assembles at the appointed house at the appointed hour, half-amused and half-curious. When the lights go out, a figure with a torch appears, shots ring out in the dark, and what was meant to be a game ends with a body on the floor and the hostess wounded. Chief Inspector Craddock takes charge of the investigation, but the tangle of guests, lodgers, and neighbours resists easy answers, and each polite household guards its own version of the truth. Elderly, observant Jane Marple, who understands village life and the small lies people tell, joins the inquiry and listens where others only look. As she sifts ordinary gossip from genuine clue, it becomes clear that the strangers who have settled in postwar Britain are not always who they claim to be, and that an old secret connects far more of the village than anyone suspects. 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