A murder is announced -- Breakfast at Little Paddocks -- At 6:30 p.m. -- The Royal Spa Hotel -- Miss Blacklock and Miss Bunner -- Julia, Mitzi and Patrick -- Among those present -- Enter Miss Marple -- Concerning a door -- Pip and Emma -- Miss Marple comes to tea -- Morning activities in Chipping Cleghorn -- Morning activities in Chipping Cleghorn (continued) -- Excursion into the past -- Delicious death -- Inspector Craddock returns -- The album -- The letters -- Reconstruction of the crime -- Miss Marple is missing -- Three women -- The truth -- Evening at the vicarage -- Epilogue.

You are cordially invited to a murder. A personal ad in the newspaper inviting strangers to participate in an evening of murder mystery fun and games at the home of Letitia Blacklock is an invitation that Miss Jane Marple cannot pass up. A good thing, too, because when the lights are dimmed real gunshots ring out, killing a young boy. Now it's time for a new, much more serious game of whodunit.