After drinking poisoned tea, Fortescue Rex died in terrible agony. No doubt it's murder. But there was no evidence left at the scene of the crime, except for a few grains of rye found in the pocket of the dead man's trousers. Miss Marple, who learned about this strange find, suddenly remembered two other equally mysterious murders. Compared the facts and - understood: over all the murders hang rhymes to the well-known nursery rhyme! It is very similar to talk about those who were killed, and how it was done … And in the cracks of the mirror circle In the life of a small town of St. Mary's Meade - an event! The famous director and his wife-film star bought a mansion here . However, the reception in honor of the housewarming was clouded: poison was poured into the glass of a respectable local resident . When the police are powerless, the incomparable Miss Marple comes on the scene - only her sharp mind and knowledge of human nature can help solve the murder. The novel was filmed several times, the most famous adaptation is the 1980 film “Mirror cracked”, where Elizabeth Taylor starred as a movie star.