Miss Marple aids an old family friend, Louisa Oxley, and her young son, Archie by finding them refuge at the nearby Greenshaw's Folly, home of Miss Marple’s dear friend, the eccentric botanist Katherine Greenshaw. But it isn't quite the safe house that Miss Marple had hoped, for death soon begins to cast its dark and sinister shadow.
The downfall of an optimistic young couple who ignored warnings from a gypsy.
Miss Marple is drawn into a case of intrigue and black magic on the island of St. Honore.
