In this Miss Marple mystery, a man is mysteriously poisoned in his office at work one day, and the next day, his much younger, very beautiful wife was poisoned as well, and their maid was strangled. The police don't know what's going on, but they're investigating the best they can. I like how Miss Marple is always introduced to each murder mystery differently in each of her stories--in this one, she knew and helped train the maid, Gladys, and came swooping in to help investigate and give them any information she could when she read about her murder in the papers. Miss Marple obviously figures out the solution at the end, as well as contributes the main idea that the three murders are linked to the nursery rhyme "Four and Twenty Blackbirds" and gives those ideas to the police, while they do the majority of the actual investigating. However, other than that, Miss Marple doesn't appear much in this story--but that doesn't detract too much from the enjoyment of the book because it worked very well anyways. The characters were really interesting and fun. (It's amazing listening to so many Agatha Christie novels in a row--the plots may get familiar after a while but the characters are always so different and interesting. It's amazing how she did it!) I had an inkling about who did it--mainly because I've just started suspecting the least suspicious person and maybe because I've gotten into the Christie mindset after listening to so many in a row--but I was hoping I was wrong the whole time because I liked them so much and didn't want them to be guilty. This was definitely an enjoyable story and a fun listen. My only real complaint is that Miss Marple seemed to figure out the guilty party in this one just out of thin air and without any actual evidence or proof. She explains what happened to the police and they're like, "Okay, you're probably right, but how do I arrest him?" and she says, "You're very smart, I'm sure you'll be able to do that."
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