Death by Drowning [short story]

by Agatha Christie

Series: Miss Marple: Chronological (3)

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Previously published in the print anthology The Thirteen Problems. A young girl finds out she's pregnant and throws herself off a bridge, but Miss Marple is not so sure it was suicide.

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Death by Drowning [short story]

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Gossington Hall, St. Mary Mead, England, UK

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Sir Henry Clithering, ex-Commissioner of Scotland Yard, was staying with his friends the Bantrys at their place near the little village of St. Mary Mead.

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Previously published in the print anthology The Thirteen Problems. A young girl finds out she's pregnant and throws herself off a bridge, but Miss Marple is not so sure it was suicide.

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In: Agatha Christie, Miss Marple, the Complete Short Stories, (Boston, MA : G.K. Hall & Co., 1987, c1985) pp.249-277. (various reprintings)

Also in: Agatha Christie, The Thirteen Problems, (London : Collins, 1932). (various reprintings, including under the titles Miss Marple and the Thirteen Problems and the Tuesday Club Murders)

Sir Henry Clithering is staying with the Bantrys, and Miss Marple asks him to help prove her case about the murder of Rose Emmott, daughter of the owner of the Blue Boar inn.

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