Death by Drowning

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Summary

Genre: Murder Mystery

Format: Short Story

Locations: England, St. Mary Mead

Murder Method: Drowning

Recurring Characters: Miss Jane Marple

Synopsis

Miss Marple’s old friend Dolly Bantry has heard some news about one of the village girls. Rose Emmott threw herself off a bridge and drowned; the poor girl had discovered she was pregnant. But Miss Marple doesn’t believe it was suicide, and hearing the facts she believes she knows who the killer is...

This story, first published in 1931 in Nash’s Pall Mall, contains only four of the characters from The Tuesday Night Club. It is published in The Thirteen Problems.

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