About the book: year / Collection "Thirteen Mysterious Cases". Miss Marple's story. Miss Marple's niece Mabel had an unsuccessful marriage. Her husband was a rude and hot-tempered man. They often quarreled. Miss Marple refused to visit Mabel at her house and always found excuses not to go to her. Mabel's husband dies unexpectedly. Mabel asks Miss Marple to come and help her urgently. The whole town turned against her. The whole society is sure that she poisoned her husband. A few days before his sudden death, Mabel bought arsenic at the pharmacy. According to her, she was going to commit suicide. However, the arsenic disappeared. Miss Marple advises insisting on exhuming the body. An autopsy confirms that the cause of death was definitely not arsenic poisoning. Miss Marple was interested in the testimony of the cook, who claimed that before his death Godfrey constantly repeated: “a bag of fish».