- Old wounds are reopened for the Argyle family when a man suddenly turns up after being abroad and claims that the black sheep of the family could not have murdered its tyrannical matriarch.
- Miss Marple is invited to the wedding of a friend, but the gaieties are interrupted when a stranger arrives; he provides the missing evidence which proves that the black sheep of the family, Jacko, was wrongfully hanged for murder. This raises the question of who in the household did kill the cold-hearted mistress of the house two years previously. As usual, Miss Marple is needed to uncover the hatred, jealousy, lust etc. behind the family's facade and sort out the threads of the mystery.—Lone Andersen
- When Rachel Argyle is found dead in her study, her son Jacko is found guilty of her murder and hanged. He was deeply in debt and had a terrible row with his mother just an hour and half before she was killed. She had refused him any money and he threatened to kill her. Several years later, Gwenda Vaughn is engaged to the now widowed Leo Argyle and she invites her friend Miss Marple to the wedding. When the family learn that Jacko's alibi was genuine, they must deal with the fact that an innocent man was executed and that the true killer is still free. Miss Marple assists her friend in identifying the true killer but not before someone faces a tragic end.—garykmcd
- Old wounds are reopened for the Argyle family when a man suddenly turns up after being abroad and claims that the black sheep of the family could not have murdered its tyrannical matriarch... and that the deed was committed by someone else.—shanty_sleuth
- Miss Marple is visiting her friend Vera for her wedding. Gwenda is marrying Leo Argyle, whose wife Rachel was murdered two years previously. Their son Jacko was found guilty of her murder and executed. On the first night there, a stranger, Dr Arthur Calgary, arrives and informs everyone that Jacko was clearly innocent as he was giving him a lift in his car at the exact time of the murder. This news is not received well by the Argyle family.—grantss
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