Showing posts with label A Murder Is Announced. Show all posts
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Saturday, November 22, 2014

One. A murder is announced

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Between 7:30 and 8:30 every morning except Sundays, Johnnie Butt made the round of the village of Chipping Cleghorn on his bicycle, whistling vociferously through his teeth,

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Two. Breakfast at little paddocks

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At Little Paddocks also, breakfast was in progress.

Miss Blacklock, a woman of sixty odd, the owner of the house, sat at the head of the table.

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Three. At 6:30 P.M.

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“Well, here we are, all set,” said Miss Blacklock. She looked round the double drawing room with an appraising eye.

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Four. The royal spa hotel

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George Rydesdale, Chief Constable of Middleshire, was a quiet man. Of medium height, with shrewd eyes under rather bushy brows, he was in the habit of listening rather than talking. Then, in his unemotional voice, he would give a brief order—and the order was obeyed.

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Six. Julia, mitzi and patrick

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Julia, when she came into the room, and sat down in the chair vacated by Letitia Blacklock, had an air of composure that Craddock for some reason found annoying. She fixed a limpid gaze on him and waited for his questions.

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Seven. Among those present

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Dayas Hall had certainly suffered during the war years. Couch grass grew enthusiastically over what had once been an asparagus bed, as evidenced by a few waving tufts of asparagus foliage.

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Eight. Enter miss marple

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Craddock laid the typed transcript of the various interviews before the Chief Constable. The latter had just finished reading the wire received from the Swiss Police.

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Nine. Concerning a door

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“I’m sorry to bother you again, Miss Blacklock—”

“Oh, it doesn’t matter. I suppose, as the inquest was adjourned for a week, you’re hoping to get more evidence?”

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Ten. Pip and emma

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Miss Blacklock listened to him this time with more attention. She was an intelligent woman, as he had known, and she grasped the implications of what he had to tell her.

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Eleven. Miss marple comes to tea

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If Letitia Blacklock seemed slightly absentminded when Mrs. Harmon came to tea and brought a guest who was staying with her, Miss Marple, the guest in question, was hardly likely to notice the fact since it was the first time she had met her.

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Twelve. Morning activities in chipping cleghorn

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Edmund Swettenham sat down rather precariously on a garden roller.

“Good morning, Phillipa,” he said.

“Hallo.”

“Are you very busy?”

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Thirteen. Morning activities in chipping cleghorn (continued)

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Miss Marple came out of the Vicarage gate and walked down the little lane that led into the main street.

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Fourteen. Excursion into the past

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After a night in the train, Inspector Craddock alighted at a small station in the Highlands.

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Fifteen. Delicious death

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In the kitchen at Little Paddocks, Miss Blacklock was giving instructions to Mitzi.

“Sardine sandwiches as well as the tomato ones. And some of those little scones you make so nicely. And I’d like you to make that special cake of yours.”

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Sixteen. Inspector craddock returns

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Inspector Craddock had had a bad night on his night journey home. His dreams had been less dreams than nightmares.

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Seventeen. The album

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Standing by the Vicarage gate, well wrapped up, Miss Marple took the note from Bunch’s hand.

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Eighteen. The letters

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“Sorry to worry you again, Mrs. Haymes.”

“It doesn’t matter,” said Phillipa coldly.

“Shall we go into this room here?”

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Nineteen. Reconstruction of the crime

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“I’ll put a lamp by you before I go,” said Bunch. “It’s so dark in here. There’s going to be a storm, I think.”

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Twenty. Miss marple is missing

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The postman, rather to his disgust, had lately been given orders to make an afternoon delivery of letters in Chipping Cleghorn as well as a morning one.

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Twenty-one. Three women

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Dinner was over at Little Paddocks. It had been a silent and uncomfortable meal.Patrick, uneasily aware of having fallen from grace, only made spasmodic attempts at conversation—and such as he did make were not well received.

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