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The Truth Unfolds in Agatha Christie’s Clever Mystery
In A Murder Is Announced – Part Two, Miss Marple continues to peel back the layers of deceit surrounding a chilling murder in the quiet village of Chipping Cleghorn. As identities blur and motives emerge, the killer’s true nature is slowly revealed. Joan Hickson’s brilliant portrayal of Christie’s beloved sleuth shines in this satisfying conclusion filled with sharp deductions and a classic twist.
The Truth Unfolds in Agatha Christie’s Clever Mystery
In A Murder Is Announced – Part Two, Miss Marple continues to peel back the layers of deceit surrounding a chilling murder in the quiet village of Chipping Cleghorn. As identities blur and motives emerge, the killer’s true nature is slowly revealed. Joan Hickson’s brilliant portrayal of Christie’s beloved sleuth shines in this satisfying conclusion filled with sharp deductions and a classic twist.
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01:30You didn't tell me everything, did you, Mona, about Rudy Shouts?
01:39Yeah. I told you everything.
01:42I told you... nearly everything.
01:54Tell me the rest.
01:56My mum said that I'd be an... an accessory before the fact.
02:03Do you know what that means?
02:05It sounded horrible.
02:06I'm sure your mother's wrong.
02:11What happened?
02:13Well, the night Rudy died, we were supposed to be going to the pictures, and then he said he wouldn't be able to come, and I got cross, because I just had me hair done.
02:27And I told him I didn't fancy being stood up by a foreigner, and he got mad at that and showed me that advertisement in the paper.
02:37The one that said a murder is announced?
02:39He said it was a silly English joke.
02:43There's always going on about silly English jokes.
02:48What exactly did he say he was going to do?
02:50He told me he was going to stage a sham hold-up, pretend he was a gangster and scare all the people.
02:59Why was he doing this?
03:00Because somebody was paying him.
03:02He said he'd be willing to pocket, and he was going to buy me a...
03:06a watch.
03:07Somebody paid him to put the advertisement in the local paper and do the hold-up?
03:13Yeah.
03:14Who?
03:15He never said.
03:17You're sure about that?
03:18Sure.
03:19Honest.
03:20I mean, I'd tell you if I knew.
03:22Now that I know, it don't make me an accessory.
03:27Did you know he had a gun?
03:29I'd go out with a bloke if I thought he had a gun.
03:32And anyway, I don't believe he ever had a gun.
03:34He told me it was just a silly English joke and that he was going to enjoy laughing at their silly English faces.
03:41I mean, it stands to reason.
03:42He wouldn't have done it if he thought he was going to get shot himself, would he?
03:47It'd be very funny, he said.
03:51Some joke.
04:02Oh!
04:02Oh, Inspector Craddock.
04:03Have you had any success with Myrna?
04:06You're quite right, Miss Marple.
04:08She hadn't told me the full story.
04:09No, no, I thought not.
04:10As you suggested, somebody paid Rudy Schatz to place the advertisement and stage the hold-up.
04:16And there's no indication as to who it was?
04:19None at all.
04:20Inspector, I shall be staying in Chipping Cleghorn for the next few days.
04:24I don't suppose there's anything I can do, but I shall, in fact, be at the vicarage, in case you should want me.
04:30The vicarage?
04:31Mrs Harmon, the vicar's wife, is a distant niece.
04:35So I took the liberty of inviting myself.
04:38So, er, I may perhaps see you again in Chipping Cleghorn, huh?
04:44I dare say.
04:44Guess what?
05:00Um, they want me to be Archbishop of Canterbury.
05:04Very close.
05:06Aunt Jane's coming to stay.
05:07Oh, even better.
05:08I knew you'd be pleased.
05:10Aunt Jane is coming to stay.
05:14I seem to remember telling you so a minute ago.
05:17A man dies in highly suspicious circumstances here in Chipping Cleghorn, and suddenly Aunt Jane is coming to stay.
05:25Yes, I noticed that, too.
05:27So, whoever paid Rudy Shirts to play these silly games, is it the same person who tried to shoot Miss Blacklock?
05:35It's possible.
05:37He or she could have crept up behind Shirts in the dark, fired the shots, then dropped the gun.
05:42He or she?
05:43We have to keep an open mind.
05:45You mean that refugee woman who works up at the house?
05:50She's a bit hysterical.
05:51No, I don't mean the maid.
05:53I mean we have to keep an open mind.
05:55Seems obvious Shirts wasn't the murdering kind, and there's no evidence the gun belonged to him.
06:01It was a German automatic.
06:02Yeah, and since the war, the whole country's awash with German guns.
06:05Anybody who was in the services might have brought it home as a souvenir.
06:11Laura, my dear!
06:12I can't find my pistol.
06:17Well, you don't need it today, do you?
06:19That isn't the point.
06:23You mean you really can't find it?
06:25I thought that's what I said.
06:29Oh, my God, sir.
06:31It should be in here.
06:33When did you see it last?
06:35God knows, months ago.
06:39Well, I remember clearly.
06:40I saw it on Saturday.
06:42On Saturday, are you sure?
06:44Absolutely certain.
06:46You were grumbling about your collars and the laundry.
06:48Come, come, my dear.
06:49I never grumble.
06:50You were grumbling.
06:51And I looked in this drawer and the gun was there.
06:54It was the day after that business at Little Paddocks.
06:57And I remember thinking, well, at least it wasn't your gun he used.
07:01Unless he took it, did the job, replaced it.
07:05And then stole it again.
07:09Rather tricky as the young man was dead.
07:11Well spotted, my dear.
07:13Still, we needn't bother the police about it.
07:15It's just an old war souvenir.
07:17No bullets, no license come to that.
07:21Mum's the word.
07:23You're my old war souvenir.
07:26I've got a couple of letters I must write.
07:28To begin with, the story Rudy Schertz told you when he visited the house was a pack of lies.
07:36He wasn't the son of the proprietor of the Hotel des Alpes in Montreux.
07:40Which explains why I didn't recognize him.
07:43Well, who was he?
07:43Well, he'd had various jobs.
07:46A hospital orderly in Bern, a waiter, a shop assistant.
07:50Wherever he went, things tended to disappear.
07:54A picker up of unconsidered trifles.
07:57Exactly.
07:58The Swiss police were becoming a little tired of him,
08:00so he armed himself with forged papers and came to England.
08:04Another displaced person with a good cover story.
08:07But why pick on me?
08:10Yes.
08:10Why should he want to murder Letty?
08:12He didn't want to murder you, Miss Blacklock.
08:14It looked as if he did.
08:15He burst in here with a gun, and I'm sure...
08:18He was paid to do that.
08:20Paid?
08:21Yes.
08:24Somebody else wanted to have me murdered?
08:27Is that what you're suggesting?
08:28That is what the evidence suggests.
08:30Nobody could possibly want to murder Letty.
08:32It's ludicrous.
08:34Please understand, Inspector, I have no hidden Rembrandts.
08:39No enemies that I'm aware of.
08:41And no guilty secrets about myself.
08:44Or anyone else, for that matter.
08:48I would like to speak to your maid.
08:50Is she at home?
08:51Hannah's in the kitchen.
08:52Because she's a foreigner, she's an automatic suspect.
08:55Is that it?
08:58No.
08:59That's not it.
09:00She works hard, and her papers and her permit are in perfect order.
09:03The same applied to Rudy Schertz.
09:07The late Rudy Schertz.
09:09You're beginning to lose patience with Inspector Craddock.
09:17He's only trying to protect you, Letty.
09:19Protect me?
09:20I'm perfectly capable of protecting myself.
09:22But don't you see?
09:24See what?
09:24If somebody paid that young man to kill you, and it didn't work, then whoever it is, well, he's likely to try again.
09:36Yes, I'm sorry.
09:38I'm being a bit slow in the uptake, aren't I?
09:40It's natural.
09:41You've had a difficult time.
09:43Apart from that, I think you should tell Mr. Craddock everything.
09:52What does it matter what I say?
09:55I'm just a refugee.
09:57If I say the wrong thing, you can always send me home, unless you send me to prison.
10:02Besides, you shouldn't be talking to me.
10:05You should be talking to that nice English lady.
10:08Which nice English lady?
10:10Mrs. Haynes.
10:12Why should I be speaking to Mrs. Haynes?
10:15The young man.
10:17He comes to the house and asks Miss Blacklock for money.
10:20You know about that?
10:22Miss Blacklock told me.
10:24I watch him go.
10:26He stops and talks to Mrs. Haynes in the summer house.
10:35What do you suppose they were talking about?
10:37I don't know how to steal Miss Blacklock's money, I expect.
10:41Miss Blacklock isn't a rich woman.
10:44She is richer than me.
10:46She's richer, too, than Mrs. Haynes.
10:48Mrs. Haynes is a fine lady who loses her husband and no longer has any money.
10:53She sends her son to school and has to work as a gardener.
10:56That is not a proper job for a fine English lady.
11:00Miss Blacklock, she takes to work as a gardener.
11:02Will you excuse me, please?
11:04I need the kitchen to myself.
11:07I have to make a very careful sauce.
11:10wrong door inspector that one doesn't open it's from when there were two rooms we used to have
11:34the whole table against it when was the table moved a couple of weeks ago
11:39something to do with flowers philippa mrs haymes did a big vase or twigs and branches and people
11:49getting their hair tangled up so we moved the table is it nailed up no just locked do you have the key
12:01yes in here i think oh yes here there careful there might be something resting against the inside
12:13this store's been open quite recently miss banner the hinges in the lock have been oiled good
12:35gracious which means you'd like to wash your hands which means when shirts came in this door and did
12:47his party piece anybody could have slipped out through the other door stood behind him and fired
12:53the shots at you miss blacklock are you suggesting that one of my neighbors one of my nice commonplace
13:02neighbors slipped through that door and tried to murder me oh who's your main suspect inspector
13:08the vicar's wife
13:10we have to be very direct about this miss blacklock if you die who benefits
13:17patrick and julia oh and uh bunny here gets a small legacy and all the furniture in the house
13:24i didn't know that thank you letty it's hardly the sort of thing one talks about as a rule
13:32but i i still think you should tell the inspector yes bunny i know what you think and i am going to
13:38tell him now i think we should both like a cup of tea if you'd be so kind i'm sorry i'll see to it
13:45what is miss banner anxious for you to tell me i'm not worth murdering now inspector
13:55but in a few weeks time i might be why because i shall be a very rich woman
14:04please sit down
14:07does the name randall girdler mean anything to you
14:21oh well perhaps you're a little too young
14:25he was a financier died just before the war
14:29yes 1938
14:30well until his death i was his personal secretary
14:35well more a junior partner really
14:38when he died he left all his money in trust for his wife bell
14:44but if she dies before me i inherit
14:48a great deal of money
14:51randall girdler was a millionaire so yes a great deal of money
14:56you said you might very soon be a rich woman
15:00is mrs girdler likely to die yes
15:03that may sound callous inspector but you ask the question and that's a truthful answer
15:08bell girdler is a very sweet creature and an invalid
15:14we exchange cards and letters at christmas time
15:18and her nurse keeps me informed of her medical condition
15:22i gather it may now be only a matter of weeks
15:27where does mrs girdler live
15:29in scotland
15:30perhaps you'll let me have the address before i leave
15:34yes
15:35going back three spaces
15:37patrick and julia are the beneficiaries in the event of your death
15:41yes
15:42but if you die before mrs girdler
15:44what happens then
15:45bell and randall had no children
15:48so when he made his will he nominated the offspring of his sister sonia
15:53and who are they
15:55please don't laugh inspector but
15:58i only know them as pip and emma
16:02pip and emma
16:04yes
16:05who and where are they
16:07nobody knows
16:08girdler's sister sonia
16:10married some smooth talking greek called stamford
16:13it's more or less a crook
16:14and they lost contact with the girdlers
16:17except it's known that they had two children born in the early 1920s
16:21so they'd now be
16:2325 26
16:24the same age as patrick and julia
16:27yes
16:28is that possible
16:30miss blacklock's never seen them
16:33mrs girdler's never seen them
16:35so yes it's possible
16:35as i say you have a lot of checking to do
16:37where are we going
16:39back to hq
16:41no we're not
16:42i want to speak to mrs haymes
16:45see what she was doing in the summer house
16:47i'm happy to verify a statement if it means i can stand up straight
16:58the dead man rudy shertz
17:01you told me he was a stranger to you
17:02yes
17:03did you at any time have a conversation with him in the summer house at little paddocks
17:11in the summer house
17:13it's absurd
17:15who told you that
17:17a statement was made to me that you were seen speaking to him
17:21i expect it was hannah
17:24she tells lies
17:27i've never met rudy shertz in my life
17:30and i couldn't have seen him
17:32i'm here every day
17:34thank you mrs haymes
17:40good morning colonel
17:50good morning inspector
17:52you're up bright and early
17:54habit of a lifetime up with alarm
17:56check with the offensive perimeter
17:58i'm told you have a german pistol
18:03yes
18:05unofficially of course
18:06souvenir of victory and all that
18:09may i see it
18:10officially
18:11well
18:13fact of the matter is inspector
18:15damn things disappeared
18:16i see
18:18when
18:19oh i can tell you is that my wife saw it in my drawer
18:23last saturday
18:24you mean it disappeared after the killing
18:27well
18:28according to my good lady
18:31yes
18:31i see
18:34well
18:37i'll leave you to check your defensive perimeters
18:41you know
18:55the english village has changed since before the war
18:59that's rarely because the whole world has changed
19:01the village like chipping cake hall for example it may look the same simple and peaceful and eternal
19:11and if someone new came to the village then they brought letters of introduction they'd either been in the same regiment or the same ship or the same colony as someone already living in the village you see
19:17and if someone new came to the village then they brought letters of introduction they'd either been in the same regiment or the same ship or the same colony as someone already living in the village you see
19:31and that no longer applies
19:33and that no longer applies
19:34oh gone forever i suspect
19:35oh gone forever i suspect
19:37i don't know well the big houses in the wild
19:41the air legislature is in the night
19:41i don't know if it got a lot of them um...
19:42the city of the mountains
19:43and they want to get a lot of them in the village
19:44you know its own way
19:44from india
19:45Hong Kong, Italy, and made little money and were able to retire.
19:50No letters of introduction, no roots.
19:54You'll have to believe their stories and take them at their face value.
19:57Plus their ration books and identity cards.
20:00Oh, can you really believe in a ration book and identity card?
20:05Horrible things, inhuman.
20:11So, Pip and Emma could be Patrick and Julia.
20:15Oh, quite easily, I imagine, but I think they sound rather fun.
20:20Not at all the homicidal type.
20:22But I'll try and find out.
20:24You will be careful, won't you?
20:26Oh, of course.
20:28A policeman asking questions is open to the gravest suspicion,
20:31but an old lady asking questions is just an old lady asking questions.
20:45Who's the old lady?
20:48Mrs. Harmon's aunt.
20:51I could go to my room and pretend to work.
20:54Well, Mrs. Harmon's quite fun.
20:56Pick of the village idiots, really.
20:57Shall I be charming and terribly amusing?
21:04No.
21:05Not a good idea.
21:07It must have seemed quite dreadful to you.
21:09Like Chicago come to Chipping Clegghorn.
21:11I was scared stiff.
21:13Well, it was rather an alarming experience.
21:16Well, it must have seemed quite providential
21:18when the young man tripped himself up and shot himself.
21:21Of course, burglary is so violent nowadays.
21:23There used to be a certain grace and decorum about it, but...
21:27I blame the war, Miss Marple.
21:28Don't you?
21:29And the Viennese waltz.
21:31Absolutely.
21:32Yes.
21:33And was that the door that he came in at?
21:35Yes.
21:36The very one.
21:37And I'm told there were bullet holes.
21:39Right over here, Miss Marple.
21:41Oh, I've never seen a real bullet hole.
21:43May I?
21:43Yes, of course, please.
21:45It's a miracle, Lottie wasn't killed.
21:48Oh, gracious.
21:49But you were jolly severely wounded, weren't you?
21:52Are you fully recovered now, Miss Blacklock?
21:54Yes, of course.
21:55It was only a scratch.
21:56I only wear this plaster to get sympathy from my nearest and dearest.
22:01It doesn't work.
22:04Unfortunately.
22:06So you were over here when it happened?
22:07I'd just gone for the cigarette box.
22:09Then the lights went out.
22:11Oh, what a delightful lamp.
22:15Dresden.
22:16Really?
22:16It's one of a pair.
22:18The other's in the spare room.
22:20Really?
22:21Oh, I'd forgotten about that.
22:23I like nice things.
22:24Don't you?
22:25Oh, oh, yes, indeed.
22:26Oh, yes, very much.
22:28I'm afraid I can't work up any enthusiasm for possessions.
22:31Do you like nice things?
22:35I prefer naughty things.
22:37Julia?
22:38I have very few possessions, all of them precious, and each one a cherished memory.
22:45And as for photographs, people don't seem to keep photographs nowadays, do they?
22:51I do have hundreds.
22:53All my nieces and nephews, when they were babies and children and grown-up and parents.
22:59You've got a horrible one of me with a squint and a fox terrier.
23:04And despite all your aunt says, I'm sure she's got hundreds of photographs of you all tucked away.
23:10We're only distant cousins.
23:12To tell you the truth, Miss Marple, I didn't remember these two existed.
23:17Until earlier this year, I had a letter from their mother saying they were going to be studying in this area.
23:22And when did you last see my mother?
23:24Oh, about 30 years ago.
23:27I remember she was very pretty.
23:28And luckily, we both inherited our good looks.
23:31Not only that.
23:32You're quite right, Miss Marple.
23:34Aunt Lettie has a marvellous old photograph album.
23:36We looked through it the other day.
23:38But I'm not obsessive about the past.
23:41Well, I, of course, have more past than future.
23:44Oh, don't be silly, Aunt Jane.
23:46My dear, you've married a vicar.
23:48You must know, we're allocated three score years and ten.
23:53And I shall soon be overdrawn.
23:58You did it on purpose, didn't you?
24:01What, my dear?
24:02You talked about photographs.
24:04Well, I now know that Miss Blacklock had never seen Patrick and Julia in the flesh.
24:09Until they turned up on her doorstep.
24:11And rang the bell.
24:12Exactly.
24:14Tomorrow, I shall explore your village.
24:17Quite small.
24:18Won't take long.
24:19Oh, there are more things in Chipping Caghorn.
24:22Horatio, than I dreamt of in your philosophy.
24:25I dare say.
24:28Horatio?
24:28I thought he had a bridge.
24:30Good morning, Philippa.
24:48Hello.
24:52What are you doing?
24:54Can't you see?
24:55Well, I'm no gardener.
24:58I mean, you seem to be poking around aimlessly in the soil.
25:01I'm pricking out winter lettuce.
25:04And, um, exquisitely, too.
25:07Please go away, Edmund.
25:09You've no business to be here.
25:10Wrong.
25:11I have business.
25:12Mrs. Lucas rang my mama this morning, very anxious to trade one of her surplus vegetable marrows for, um, a pot of honey.
25:23Yes, we're swamped with vegetable marrows.
25:25So, uh, I have my alibi.
25:27Using the word loosely and incorrectly.
25:31There's no question of dalliance.
25:33Good.
25:33Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null.
25:42I beg your pardon?
25:43Tennyson writing about Maud.
25:45But it's really about you, Philippa.
25:47Splendidly null.
25:48It isn't much of a compliment.
25:50But it isn't meant to be.
25:51It's meant to stir you into speaking.
25:53What are you like?
25:54What do you feel?
25:55That's my business.
25:57It's mine, too.
25:58Oh, can't you see I'm smitten?
26:01I didn't want to fall in love with you.
26:03I just wanted to worry about the working classes and write my book about the world's misery.
26:08And then you came along.
26:10And you won't even talk to me.
26:12I'm talking to you now.
26:13Not really talking.
26:15Tell me about anything.
26:16Tell me about your husband, if you like.
26:20We met.
26:22We got married.
26:24Harry was born.
26:27Ronald was killed in Italy.
26:30Harry's a nice kid.
26:31I like him.
26:33I think he likes me, too.
26:35Oh, let's get married, Philippa.
26:38You can go on gardening.
26:39And I can go on writing my tripey book.
26:41And we can sponge off mother.
26:44My eyesight is defective.
26:47But I'm very sincere.
26:50No.
26:51I don't think so.
26:52Very well.
26:57In that case, you'd better lead me to that vegetable, Mary.
27:10Ah, Sergeant Fletcher.
27:12Are you keeping an eye on us?
27:13Inspector Craddock's orders, Miss Blacklock.
27:15Well, we're just going down to the village.
27:16It's Hannah's day out, so there's nobody in.
27:18I see.
27:19So if you could.
27:20Keep an eye on the house.
27:21Yes, please.
27:21The Sergeant can make himself a cup of tea.
27:23Oh, yes, of course, Sergeant.
27:24Please do.
27:25The door's open.
27:26We never lock doors.
27:27Come along, Bunny.
27:28We'll be late.
27:28We'll be late.
27:58We'll be late.
28:28Oh, you startle me, Sergeant.
28:43I thought you were another burglar.
28:45No, Mrs Swatnam.
28:46It's only me.
28:49You came through the back door.
28:52Yes, it's always open.
28:53I just brought up some of my quinces.
28:56Perhaps you'd tell Miss Blacklock when she comes back.
28:58I leave them here.
29:00It seems anybody can walk into this house just as they like.
29:03Of course.
29:04How else could we leave quinces on the kitchen table?
29:07Mergatroyd.
29:12Mergatroyd.
29:14Yes, Hinchy?
29:17I've been doing a bit of thinking.
29:20What about?
29:20Well, that pantomime the other night was all too fishy.
29:27Now, take this revolver.
29:31Well, that's a trowel.
29:32I know it's a trowel.
29:33We don't stock revolvers, do we?
29:35I suppose not.
29:36And this torch.
29:39Now, go outside, come back in, wave the torch around and the revolver like he did.
29:43And say, stick them up.
29:46Why?
29:46Because what happened the other night was fishy, and I want to find out what made it fishy.
29:53I'll try.
29:54Stick them up!
30:10The door won't stay open.
30:12Exactly.
30:13That's the fishy bit.
30:15The door at Little Paddocks is just the same.
30:17Letty Blacklock bought that huge glass doorstop from Elliot's, remember?
30:20Well, perhaps the burglar used the doorstop to keep it open.
30:24That's a non-starter, Murgatroyd.
30:27You fling the door open, you shout, reach for the sky,
30:29and then you say, excuse me a moment while I adjust the doorstop.
30:33It's all so awkward.
30:36Give me that revolver.
30:39You'd have shot yourself by now.
30:41He did shoot himself, didn't he?
30:50Somebody must have held the door open for him.
30:58I'm not at all sure he did shoot himself.
31:03You mean...
31:05somebody else shot him?
31:09That's the only alternative to shooting oneself, in my experience.
31:13You've had experience?
31:14Of crimes of violence.
31:18Lots.
31:19Pitcho, pitcho!
31:21Two-gun Hinchcliffe.
31:23The terror of Kidderminster.
31:30I don't believe you.
31:32Neither do I.
31:35But if it wasn't one of us who killed that boy,
31:37it was somebody very like us.
31:39I don't believe you.
32:09Miss Marple.
32:22Oh!
32:23Do sit here.
32:25Oh, how kind.
32:26Thank you so much.
32:27I'm on my own.
32:28Oh, dear.
32:29Oh, such a sharp wind.
32:33My rheumatics, you know.
32:35I had sciatica last year.
32:37I was in agony.
32:38Oh, dear, yes.
32:39Oh, now then.
32:40Coffee and cakes?
32:41Yes, please.
32:42For two.
32:47You know, I don't think the cakes here look so delicious as the ones I had in your house.
32:52Hannah made those.
32:54Hannah?
32:54A cook.
32:55She's very good.
32:57Some sort of a foreigner.
32:58Swiss, I think.
32:59It's a pity she screams so much.
33:02Oh, well, it's a sign of life.
33:04And what about the other person who I didn't see?
33:08The young woman who lives with you?
33:10Philippa.
33:11We call her our lodger.
33:13I suppose she is, in a way.
33:16Oh, Philippa.
33:17Haymes.
33:19Haymes.
33:19Oh, yes, really.
33:21Yes, I knew a Colonel Haymes in the Indian cavalry.
33:25Her father, perhaps.
33:26She's Mrs Haymes, a widow.
33:28Her husband was killed in Sicily, or Italy.
33:33Oh, how sad.
33:35Oh, here we are.
33:35All right.
33:43Now, then.
33:44Would you like me to pour out?
33:46Yes, please.
33:49Coffee?
33:49Coffee?
33:49They're terribly pink, aren't they?
33:57Probably an artificial substitute for flavour.
34:04And has she many admirers?
34:07That waitress, I doubt it.
34:09Much too surly.
34:11Oh, oh, yes.
34:12No, Mrs Haymes.
34:14Oh, well, young Edmund Swettelum booms around her a bit.
34:21He's a very odd young man.
34:23Writes books.
34:24And I have heard that he's a communist.
34:28Oh, really?
34:29Yes.
34:29Well, he must be rather lonely in Chipping Clegghorn.
34:32I'm told they can grow out of it.
34:34Do you believe that?
34:35Oh, yes, yes.
34:36I think that's quite likely, yes.
34:37Good.
34:40And, um, have you known Miss Blacklock long?
34:43Oh, we were at school together.
34:47Then we lost touch for years.
34:50She was secretary to this millionaire, a girdler, and...
34:54Tell me, I didn't do wrong, Miss Marple.
35:07I'm afraid I don't know what you're talking about, Miss Barlow.
35:09I was living on my own, just in my pension, in a bed sitter, and I...
35:13I saw Letty's name in the local newspaper.
35:17She was at a charity luncheon in aid of the Milchester Hospital.
35:21And I wrote to her.
35:23Not a begging letter.
35:25It wasn't that.
35:26Oh, no.
35:26No, of course not.
35:28No, you wrote a friendly letter to an old school chum, and you met.
35:32She was lonely, and you were lonely, and she asked you to move in with her.
35:36That's all.
35:37You do understand.
35:39I understand everything about lonely old ladies.
35:43I can tell.
35:44You're very comfortable to talk to, Miss Marple.
35:47You see, I get so angry when I see people taking advantage of Letty.
35:51And I do hope that I'm not like that.
35:56She's left me all the household goods and an annuity.
36:01But that's her decision.
36:03I haven't taken advantage of her, truly.
36:07Oh, no, no.
36:08I'm quite sure you haven't.
36:10No.
36:11And do other people take advantage?
36:21Young Patrick.
36:25He's had money from her, twice at least, to my certain knowledge.
36:29And all Letty will say is the boy's young youth must have its flame.
36:32Yes, that's true, you know.
36:36And, of course, he is handsome, and they're a trifle insolent.
36:40I agree, but on the other hand...
36:42I saw him with an oil tan in the garden.
36:49There, dear.
36:51And the other door to the drawing has been oiled.
36:56And I heard him having an argument with Julia the other day.
37:03But that's human nature, isn't it?
37:06Arguments between brothers and sisters.
37:09Shepherd and shepherdesses.
37:13I beg your pardon?
37:16The lamp on the table.
37:18Oh, I noticed that it was the shepherdess.
37:24I'm not the shepherd.
37:29Coffee and gossip, Bunny.
37:32Good morning, Miss Marvel.
37:33Good morning.
37:34Oh, won't you join?
37:35No, thank you very much, but we are rather late.
37:38Have you done your shopping, Bunny?
37:40I must call at the chemist.
37:42I need some aspirin and corn plasters.
37:46Please, can I pay?
37:47Oh, you said.
37:48Oh, I wouldn't dream for that.
37:49Oh, well, don't you?
37:50Come along, Bunny.
37:52That's it.
37:53Goodbye, Miss Marvel.
37:54Excuse me.
37:55Come along, Bunny.
37:56Goodbye, Miss Marvel.
37:57Goodbye.
38:00She's terribly sweet, Miss Marvel.
38:03Such a good listener.
38:07I don't suppose you gave her much choice, Bunny, dear.
38:09Oh.
38:18Oh, no, not that one.
38:24Oh, no?
38:25No, no, I tried one of those.
38:27They taste of salmon.
38:28Oh.
38:30I think I'll just have the coffee.
38:32Very wise.
38:33So, what were you talking about?
38:36Family loyalty.
38:37Oh, I hope it wasn't as tedious as it sounds.
38:40Oh, no, on the contrary, very revealing.
38:42You see, nearly everyone assumes that people murder out of hatred.
38:47But, of course, it may be out of loyalty.
38:49Or even love.
38:50Love?
38:51Now, tell me again who was in the room that night.
38:57Miss Blacklock, Rudy Schertz.
39:00And devoted Dora to handsome Patrick.
39:03Mrs. Swettnall of the Honeypots and her serious son, Edmund, yes.
39:09Um, the Puckerside Colonel Easterbrook and the fluffy Mrs. Easterbrook.
39:13Oh, not forgetting the cool and distant Philippa Haymes.
39:17And?
39:19Oh, am I forgetting somebody?
39:20Yes.
39:22Julia.
39:23That right, Julia, yes.
39:25Julia.
39:25Pretty Julia is peculiar.
39:28Three and six.
39:29And I'm not a peculiar Mrs. Harmon.
39:30I've always been a good C of E.
39:32Oh, I'm so sorry.
39:34I was just quoting an old song.
39:35I didn't know your name was Julia.
39:38No offence, I'm sure.
39:41Thank you very much.
39:42Thank you very much, Mrs. Markle.
39:45Well, yes.
39:47Now, do we believe in Pip and Emma?
39:49Miss Blacklock says they exist, so we have to.
39:53Even though she's never seen them and doesn't know what they look like.
39:56But they are the only people to benefit from Miss Blacklock's death.
39:59Well, not necessarily.
40:01Either of them might have married.
40:03Their mother and father might be alive.
40:06You see, they'd all be interested parties.
40:07So, the police should be looking for a murderer who...
40:11Who is either male or female, in the middle 20s.
40:15Or someone nearly as old as I am.
40:18You also said somebody who would murder out of love.
40:22Ah, yes, but a very special kind of love.
40:25A deep and abiding passion for large sums of money.
40:32Except...
40:32That waitress thought you were talking about her.
40:41Oh, it's just a simple mistake.
40:45Yes.
40:46That waitress.
41:38Mrs. Gerdler's very much looking forward to your visit, Inspector.
41:45Is she really? That makes a change.
41:48She has very few visitors for obvious reasons.
41:51There's one question I have to ask.
41:54I can guess what it is.
41:57Well?
41:58She's a dying woman.
42:00She's surviving on drugs and on her willpower,
42:03but it can't last for more than a few weeks.
42:08And our dear Miss Blacklock was not hurt by the attempt on her life?
42:13A grazed ear.
42:16Oh, poor Blackie.
42:18You know about her family background?
42:22No.
42:23Is it important to your investigation?
42:26I have no idea.
42:28Well, let me ramble on and stop me if it becomes boring.
42:34Agreed?
42:35Agreed.
42:35Two sisters.
42:38The father, an old country doctor, and a tyrant.
42:43Letty rebelled, ran away to London, made herself into a chartered accountant.
42:48The other sister, Charlotte, was an invalid.
42:54Now, when the old man died, Blackie left the firm to go and look after her sister.
43:00Randall was furious with her, shouted at her, but she was determined.
43:08And she took her sister to Switzerland.
43:12Tell me about your husband's sister.
43:15Sonia?
43:16Oh, she was wild.
43:20I was fond of her.
43:22But we've lost touch.
43:24She married this chap, Stamfordius.
43:27A genuine crook, I have no doubt.
43:30You'd have enjoyed locking him up.
43:33Randall disapproved of the marriage, but Sonia took no notice.
43:37We got a letter about 18 months after the wedding to say she'd had twins just after midday,
43:49so she intended to call them Pip and Emma.
43:54We forgot about them.
43:57A terrible thing to say about one's relatives.
44:01But Mr. Girdler left his estate to the children, in the event of Miss Blacklock predeceasing you.
44:05The lawyers tested him.
44:10He told them that Blackie was strong as a horse and I was delicate.
44:14But they insisted lawyers do.
44:19They're so serious about life and death, things like that.
44:26But you have no idea where they may be, your sister-in-law, her husband, or their children.
44:32They may be dead.
44:33They may be anywhere.
44:39They may be in Chipping Claycomb.
44:45Indeed they may.
44:48Don't let them hurt Blackie.
44:50She's too good to lose.
44:52Sardine sandwiches and tomato and some of those little scones you do so nicely.
45:00And I want you to make your special cake.
45:04My cake?
45:05Is it a party?
45:06You've won such things.
45:07It's Miss Bunner's birthday and some people are coming to tea.
45:10Birthdays, parties, at her age is better to forget.
45:15She doesn't want to forget.
45:17She wants a cake.
45:18I want her to have a cake.
45:19I have nothing to make such a cake.
45:23I need butter, sugar, chocolate, raisins.
45:29Butter, sugar, chocolate, raisins.
45:36Oh, where do you get such things?
45:40None of your business, Hannah.
45:43Very well.
45:44I shall make such a cake with icing.
45:49And on the top, I will write good visions.
45:54Thank you, Hannah.
45:54I will show your English friends that such a cake should taste like...
46:00English cakes taste like sin.
46:03My cake will taste like heaven.
46:07I'm sure it will.
46:09And you must tell Mr. Patrick not to call it names.
46:12I'm sure he wouldn't dream of calling it names.
46:14My last cake, he calls it delicious death.
46:18Oh, but that's a compliment.
46:20Death is a compliment.
46:21Happy birthday to you.
46:27Happy birthday to you.
46:30Happy birthday, dear Father.
46:34Happy birthday to you.
46:42Delicious death.
46:44And Panna doesn't like you talking about a cake like that.
46:46She disapproves of everything I do.
46:48It looks a lovely cake.
46:50Foreigners.
46:51They make damn good cakes.
46:55Mind you, it's plain boiled pudding that stumps.
47:03Got a new gardener, Miss Blacklock?
47:05Saw a chap snooping round the hen house.
47:07No, that's our own special detective.
47:09Detective?
47:11Why?
47:12To protect Lettik.
47:13But isn't that all over now?
47:15They adjourned the inquest.
47:17Police not satisfied.
47:18It's obvious.
47:19They never are.
47:20As I see it, we're all under suspicion.
47:23Suspicion of what?
47:25Here and now, I'd say, loitering with intent.
47:28Oh, that sounds quite amusing.
47:30What sort of intent?
47:31Intent to commit murder upon the first opportunity.
47:34Oh, please don't, Mr. Swetland.
47:36It's so awful.
47:38Now, Bunny.
47:39I'm sure nobody would want a murder.
47:41Shh, it's all right, Bunny.
47:42Don't distress yourself.
47:43Come on, Bunny.
47:45It's usually me who spoils the party with a bad joint.
47:55Do you know, Mrs. Swetland?
47:56Mrs. Swetland?
47:58This is Mr. Brooke.
47:59Colonel.
48:01Afternoon.
48:04Sergeant Fletcher.
48:05We thought you might like a piece of Hannah's cake.
48:08Oh, thank you.
48:08That's very kind.
48:10All the suspects have gone home now.
48:13Are you under orders to stay?
48:15Another ten minutes.
48:16Then I hand over to the local Bobby.
48:18We do sleep sounder for the police presence.
48:21Good.
48:21Thank you, Jane.
48:24Did you enjoy your party?
48:42Oh, I did.
48:43But I've got a dreadful headache.
48:45Too much excitement.
48:47Too much cake.
48:49And those lovely chocolates.
48:52Where did you find them?
48:53Oh, it's easy.
48:54If you don't mind breaking the law.
48:57Oh, I think I'll take a cup of aspirin.
49:02And lie down for a while.
49:17Shall I shut up the ducks, Aunt Letty?
49:19Well, if you can do it properly.
49:21There's absolutely no guarantee, but I promise to try my hardest.
49:25All you have to do is make sure that the latch is down firmly.
49:30I knew there was a secret.
49:31Oh, don't worry, Aunt Letty.
49:33I'll make sure it's all right.
49:34I seem to have mislead the aspirin I bought in the village.
49:41This house is chock full of aspirin.
49:44They fall out of every cupboard.
49:46There's a bottle on my dressing table.
49:48Take mine, Bunny dear.
49:49They're by my bed.
49:51Thank you, Letty.
49:52Thank you, Letty.
49:56Ducks.
50:01All you have to do is see that the latch is down firmly, Julia.
50:06Imagine you were Pippenhammer.
50:13What would you do?
50:15I come to England penniless.
50:17Yes?
50:18Then, assuming I'm of criminal mentality,
50:21I seek out any rich relations I might have.
50:24I know my uncle, Randall Girdler, left a vast fortune.
50:28So I inquire about his widow, discover she's still alive,
50:31and that the only obstacle between me and the money
50:33is Miss Letitia Blacklock of Chipping Claycorn.
50:37Therefore, murder Miss Blacklock.
50:40Have we checked about Patrick and Julia?
50:43Yes, they are precisely what they claim to be.
50:47Patrick has rather a good war record.
50:52Fletcher's been busy, too.
50:54So I see.
50:56Andrea?
50:57Oh, please.
50:59I waited, hopefully, for somebody to offer,
51:01but Scotland appears to be totally dry.
51:07Helps the concentration.
51:18Bunny.
51:24Philippa?
51:47Dora Banner, but that's most unfair.
51:54The village policeman's on duty. He called the doctor.
51:58Must have been an autopsy, but...
52:01Well, it looks like narcotic poisoning.
52:04But she's a complete innocent.
52:08Is it the fate of the innocent to suffer?
52:12Very often it is, yes.
52:15In spite of her innocence? Or because of her innocence?
52:45The End
52:47The End