25-09-16 II Mitzi opened the door of the drawing room and admitted Colonel and Mrs. Easterbrook. She had her own methods of announcing people. Here is Colonel and Mrs. Easterbrook to see you, she said conversa-tionally. Colonel Easterbrook was very bluff and...

25-09-16 Three AT 6:30 P.M. I Well, here we are, all set, said Miss Blacklock. She looked round thedouble drawing room with an appraising eye. The rose-patterned chintzesthe two bowls of bronze chrysanthemums, the small vase of violets andthe silver cigarett...

25-09-16 II You are worried, arent you Lotty? Miss Blacklock started. She had been sitting at her writing-table, absent-mindedly drawing little fishes on the blotting paper. She looked up intothe anxious face of her old friend. She was not quite sure what to...

25-09-16 Two BREAKFAST AT LITTLE PADDOCKS I At Little Paddocks also, breakfast was in progress. Miss Blacklock, a woman of sixty odd, the owner of the house, sat at thehead of the table. She wore country tweedsand with them, rather incon-gruously, a choker n...

25-09-16 VOo, scrumptious! said Mrs. Harmon across the breakfast table to herhusband, the Rev. Julian Harmon, theres going to be a murder at MissBlacklocks. A murder? said her husband, slightly surprised. When? This afternoon at least, this evening. 6:30. Oh...

25-09-16 IV The Chipping Cleghorn Gazette had also been delivered at Boulders, thepicturesque three cottages knocked into one inhabited by Miss Hinchcliffeand Miss Murgatroyd. Hinch? What is it, Murgatroyd? Where are you? Henhouse. Oh. Padding gingerly throu...

25-09-16 III Archie, said Mrs. Easterbrook to her husband, listen to this. Colonel Easterbrook paid no attention, because he was already snortingwith impatience over an article in The Times. Trouble with these fellows is, he said, that none of them knows the...

25-09-16 II Mrs. Swettenham, pushing back the pretty little grey curls from her fore-head, opened The Times, looked with a lacklustre eye at the left- handcentre page, decided that, as usual, if there was any exciting news TheTimes had succeeded in camouflag...

25-09-16 ONE A MURDER IS ANNOUNCED IBetween 7:30 and 8:30 every morning except Sundays, Johnnie Butt madethe round of the village of Chipping Cleghorn on his bicycle, whistling vo-ciferously through his teeth, and alighting at each house or cottage toshove t...

25-09-16 A MURDER IS ANNOUNCED A Miss Marple Mystery Characters ? Miss Jane Marple ? Inspector Dermot Eric Craddock ? Letitia Blacklock, lady of the house, in her 60s? Dora Bunner, her elderly fluttery childhood friend, usually known byher nickname, Bunny ?...