Greenshaw's Folly

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Summary

Genre: Murder Mystery

Format: Short Story

Recurring Characters: Miss Jane Marple

Synopsis

Raymond West gets drawn into the most deadly adventure when he visits Greenshaw’s Folly. The lady of the house is drawing up a will, but when she is murdered a few days later, all the suspects have alibis. Can West’s aunt, Miss Marple solve the case?

This short story was first published in 1956 in The Daily Mail. In the forward to the collection The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding Christie wrote, ‘Miss Marple has always been pleased with her perspicuity in Greenshaw’s Folly’. Greenshaw’s Folly appears in Double Sin and Other Stories.

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