Unfortunately, because my husband and I went on a Christie series TV binge last summer, I eventually remembered how Nemesis was going to end. Otherwise, I hadn’t read it before.
Miss Marple reads an obituary for Mr. Rafiel, a wealthy man whose assistance she requested to prevent a murder in A Caribbean Mystery. Some time later, his lawyers summon her. He has left her £20,000 if she will take on a project for him and get a result. The catch is that he doesn’t say what the project is.
She decides to take the project and a few days later receives tickets for a home and garden tour. At one of the stops, she receives an invitation to stay with three sisters, who have invited her at the posthumous urging of Mr. Rafiel. Here, she begins to get a sense of her mission when she learns from another tour participant, Miss Temple, that a former student, Verity Hunt, had been murdered by Michael Rafiel, Mr. Rafiel’s son, and she had been killed by love. Soon after this conversation, Miss Temple is killed by a falling boulder.
Mr. Rafiel wanted to right an injustice, Miss Marple decides. But can she figure out what it is and finish her mission?
I at first thought the writing of this one was a little choppy—lots of subject-verb-object sentences in a row with no variation. But eventually I got caught up into another clever and interesting tale.
What? Me Read? 
I enjoyed this one, although I don’t think it’s one of the stronger Miss Marple novels. I hadn’t seen the TV version but guessed part of the solution anyway.
It’s hard to tell when you’ve seen it and remember how it went.
I don’t think I’ve read this one. But… Christie, am I right? I do prefer Marple to Poirot but I think you already know my favorites!
Yes, of course. I prefer Miss Marple, too, although there are fewer books with her.
Wow, what a startlingly beautiful cover! I have not read much of Christie and I keep saying I should…
Yes, there is a new set of them out with that design, all of the Miss Marples.
I am on a quest to read all of AC’s books, but have not yet come to this one. I am currently bing watching the Poirot series, I think there are 11 or 12 seasons.
We did that, too.