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When the vicar in Miss Marple's village declares in exasperation that anyone who murdered Colonel Prothero would be doing the world a favor, he does not realize that his words will come back to haunt him. The colonel, a most unpopular local resident, has a long list of enemies who become suspects when he is, indeed, murdered. Miss Marple, temporarily incapacitated after an accident, is perfectly positioned to investigate.