The bayou country of Louisiana serves as a colorful backdrop for the girls' lively adventures which include surviving a major flood in the Louisiana bayou country.

    by Agatha Christie!1. The Moving Finger, 2. A Murder is Announced, and3. 4:50 from Paddington (aka What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw!)If readers have time for only three of the twelve Miss Marple novels, why not take in those that have been ranked among the best? Let's look at the three: poison pen letters are making the rounds in Lymstock; someone placed an advertisement in the personal section of the local paper giving the time and place for a murder, and an elderly woman saw a murder being committed on a passing train but no one, except Jane Marple, believed her.Librarian's note: this entry is for the collection "The Amazing Miss Marple." Each of the individual titles, and the 9 other novels and 20 short stories, can be found elsewhere on Goodreads.

    or animalsThey lived in family groups, as men do. Yet the female was always taken by force, as animals do.They walked upright as men do. Yet they fought with their teeth and nails, ripping at each other's flesh, as animals do.These strange and violent people belong to the bloodstained and bestial past of every one of us. These are the first men and women - more of a jungle animal than a human being...and ancestor to all of us.