The residents of a quiet English village begin to receive nasty, threatening letters. The wife of the local vicar calls in her friend Miss Marple to investigate.
When everyone in a small town receives malicious letters detailing a future murder, it is Miss Marple who is called upon to help reveal the clues.
Miss Marple's instinct - that one murder will always follow another - proves to be true when more bodies are found in the sleepy town.
