简介:At a lavish weekend party, Miss Marple accompanies Lady Virginia Revere to her home in the Chimneys, a house once cherished for its diplomatic gatherings until a star struck it more than twenty years ago Rare diamonds were stolen from here. George Lomax, a tenacious career politician, persuaded Virginia's father, Lord Caterham, to host a party for the important Austrian Count Ludwig von Steinach. Virginia, the daughter of Miss Marple's late cousin, has until the weekend to decide whether to accept the proposal of George Lomax or follow her heart and the advances of another, more adventurous suitor, Anthony Cade. Frustrated by the strange group of guests, which include the socialist spinster Miss Blenkinsop, Caterham's formidable eldest daughter Bundle and the taciturn maid Tredwell, Lomax sternly rebukes His affable assistant, Bill Eversley, also had a soft spot for Virginia. It is clear that Count Ludwig took a personal interest in chimneys.