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Agatha Christie
A Murder Is Announced
A Miss Marple Mystery
To Ralph and Anne Newman at whose house I first tasted “Delicious Death!”
Contents
Cover
Title Page
Dedication
1.
A Murder Is Announced
2.
Breakfast at Little Paddocks
3.
At 6:30 p.m.
4.
The Royal Spa Hotel
5.
Miss Blacklock and Miss Bunner
6.
Julia, Mitzi and Patrick
7.
Among Those Present
8.
Enter Miss Marple
9.
Concerning a Door
10.
Pip and Emma
11.
Miss Marple Comes to Tea
12.
Morning Activities in Chipping Cleghorn
13.
Morning Activities in Chipping Cleghorn (continued)
14.
Excursion into the Past
15.
Delicious Death
16.
Inspector Craddock Returns
17.
The Album
18.
The Letters
19.
Reconstruction of the Crime
20.
Miss Marple Is Missing
21.
Three Women
22.
The Truth
23.
Evening at the Vicarage
Epilogue
About the Author
Other Books by Agatha Christie
Credits
Copyright
About the Publisher
One
A MURDER IS ANNOUNCED
I
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, and alighting at each house or cottage to shove through the letterbox such morning papers as had been ordered by the occupants of the house in question from Mr. Totman, stationer, of the High Street. Thus, at Colonel and Mrs. Easterbrook’s he delivered The Times and the Daily Graphic; at Mrs. Swettenham’s he left The Times and the Daily Worker; at Miss Hinchcliffe and Miss Murgatroyd’s he left the Daily Telegraph and the New Chronicle; at Miss Blacklock’s he left the Telegraph, The Times and the Daily Mail.
At all these houses, and indeed at practically every house in Chipping Cleghorn, he delivered every Friday a copy of the North Benham News and Chipping Cleghorn Gazette, known locally simply as “the Gazette.”
Thus, on Friday mornings, after a hurried glance at the headlines in the daily paper
(International situation critical! U.N.O. meets today! Bloodhounds seek blonde typist’s killer! Three collieries idle. Twenty-three die of food poisoning in Seaside Hotel, etc.)
most of the inhabitants of Chipping Cleghorn eagerly opened the Gazette and plunged into the local news. After a cursory glance at Correspondence (in which the passionate hates and feuds of rural life found full play) nine out of ten subscribers then turned to the PERSONAL column. Here were grouped together higgledy-piggledy articles for Sale or Wanted, frenzied appeals for Domestic Help, innumerable insertions regarding dogs, announcements concern ............

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