日期：2025-09-16 Epilogue We ought to order some papers, said Edmund to Phillipa upon the day oftheir return to Chipping Cleghorn after the honeymoon. Lets go along toTotmans. Mr. Totman, a heavy-breathing, slow-moving man, received them withaffability. Glad to see... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-09-16 II The sound of a car driving up to the door broke through the tenseness ofthe moment. Who can that be? asked Miss Blacklock. Mitzi put a tousled head in. She was showing the whites of her eyes. It is the police come again, she said. This, it is per... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-09-16 III He found Bunch and her husband waiting for him, their faces anxious anddrawn. She hasnt come back, said Bunch. Did she say she was coming back here when she left Boulders? askedJulian. She didnt actually say so, said Craddock slowly, throwing hi... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-09-16 Twenty-one THREE WOMEN Dinner was over at Little Paddocks. It had been a silent and uncomfort-able meal. Patrick, uneasily aware of having fallen from grace, only made spas-modic attempts at conversationand such as he did make were not wellreceived.... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-09-16 Twenty-two THE TRUTH When the Inspector turned on Edmund Swettenham, Mitzi had creptquietly out of the room and back to the kitchen. She was running waterinto the sink when Miss Blacklock entered. Mitzi gave her a shamefaced sideways look. What a li... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-09-16 Twenty-three EVENING AT THE VICARAGE Miss Marple sat in the tall armchair. Bunch was on the floor in front of thefire with her arms round her knees. The Reverend Julian Harmon was leaning forward and was for oncelooking more like a schoolboy than a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-09-16 Twenty MISS MARPLE IS MISSING I The postman, rather to his disgust, had lately been given orders to makean afternoon delivery of letters in Chipping Cleghorn as well as a morningone. On this particular afternoon he left three letters at Little Paddo... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-09-16 III Overhead the clouds had been gathering thick and blue. As Miss Murga-troyd stood looking after the retreating car, the first big drops began tofall. In an agitated fashion, Miss Murgatroyd plunged across to a line ofstring on which she had, some... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-09-16 II In the rather dark living room of Boulders with its low ceiling and latticedwindow panes, Miss Hinchcliffe and Miss Murgatroyd were having an ar-gument. The trouble with you, Murgatroyd, said Miss Hinchcliffe, is that youwont try. But I tell you,... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-09-16 Nineteen RECONSTRUCTION OF THE CRIME I Ill put a lamp by you before I go, said Bunch. Its so dark in here. Theres going to be a storm, I think. She lifted the small reading lamp to the other side of the table where itwould throw light on Miss Marple... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-09-16 III It was the following afternoon that the Inspector called at the Vicarage. It was a dark gusty day. Miss Marple had her chair pulled close to the fire and was knitting. Bunch was on hands and knees, crawling about the floor, cutting out ma-terial... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-09-16 II Craddock came away from his interview with Phillipa Haymes feelingangry and baffled. Obstinate as a mule, he said to himself angrily. He was fairly sure that Phillipa was lying, but he hadnt succeeded inbreaking down her obstinate denials. He wis... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-09-16 Eighteen THE LETTERS I Sorry to worry you again, Mrs. Haymes. It doesnt matter, said Phillipa coldly. Shall we go into this room here? The study? Yes, if you like, Inspector. Its very cold. Theres no fire. It doesnt matter. Its not for long. And wer... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-09-16 Seventeen THE ALBUM Standing by the Vicarage gate, well wrapped up, Miss Marple took the notefrom Bunchs hand. Tell Miss Blacklock, said Bunch, that Julian is terribly sorry he cantcome up himself. Hes got a parishioner dying out at Locke Hamlet. He... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-09-16 Sixteen INSPECTOR CRADDOCK RETURNS Inspector Craddock had had a bad night on his night journey home. Hisdreams had been less dreams than nightmares. Again and again he wasracing through the grey corridors of an old-world castle in a desperate at-tem... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-09-16 III Phillipa, my dear, I want to talk to you. Yes, Miss Blacklock? Phillipa Haymes looked up in slight surprise. Youre not worrying about anything, are you? Worrying? Ive noticed that youve looked worried lately. There isnt anythingwrong, is there?... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-09-16 II Ha, cried Patrick dramatically, as the party took their places round thedining room table. What do I see before me? Delicious Death. Hush, said Miss Blacklock. Dont let Mitzi hear you. She objects toyour name for her cake very much. Nevertheless,... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-09-16 Fifteen DELICIOUS DEATH I In the kitchen at Little Paddocks, Miss Blacklock was giving instructions toMitzi. Sardine sandwiches as well as the tomato ones. And some of those littlescones you make so nicely. And Id like you to make that special cake... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-09-16 Fourteen EXCURSION INTO THE PAST After a night in the train, Inspector Craddock alighted at a small station inthe Highlands. It struck him for a moment as strange that the wealthy Mrs. Goedleran invalidwith a choice of a London house in a fashionabl... 阅读全文>>

日期：2025-09-16 Thirteen MORNING ACTIVITIES IN CHIPPING CLEGHORN (CONTINUED)Miss Marple came out of the Vicarage gate and walked down the little lanethat led into the main street. She walked fairly briskly with the aid of the Rev. Julian Harmons stoutashplant stick... 阅读全文>>