Norma West

Faced with two false confessions and numerous suspects after a despised civil magistrate is found shot in the local vicarage, Detective Inspector Slack reluctantly accepts help from Miss Marple.

Holmes and Watson attempt to break the grip of a ruthless blackmailer of their clients.

A scientist experimenting with matter transmission by means of a laser beam decides to use himself as a test specimen. But the process goes awry, and one side of his body becomes deformed and lethal to anyone it touches.