Delicious+Death

A Murder is Announced Chapter 15 Summary

 * Miss. Blacklock and Mitzi are in the kitchen. Mrs. Blacklock is telling Mitzi to make sardine sandwiches, tomato sandwiches, scones and her special cake "Schwitzeber" (138). All this is for Dora Bunner's birthday.
 * Dora is turning 64, but she tells people she is turning 59.
 * Dora said that Edward Swettenham called. He wished her "many happy returns of the day" (139). He also told her that he was going to bring a pot of honey.
 * Miss Hinchliffe said that she would bring eggs.
 * Dora also got chocolate from Julia and Mr. Easterbrook and a brooch from Miss Blacklock.
 * Miss Blacklock was happy that Dora liked the brooch because she, herself, had never cared about jewelry.
 * Miss Hinchliffe asks Miss Blacklock if they have a new gardener because she saw "a man snooping round the henhouse" (140). Julia answers her saying that it is a detective protecting miss Blacklock.
 * Mr. Easterbrook says that the police are not satisfied with the investigation. Edward Swettenham tells the group that they are all under suspicion for wanting to "murder upon first opportunity" (141). The party broke up soon after this.
 * Dora does not feel well. Patrick thinks it is the cake because he does not feel well either.
 * Julia offers miss Blacklock a glass of sherry to settle her stomach.
 * Dora asks if anyone knows where she put her new bottle of aspirin. Miss Blacklock says there are some in her room.
 * Julia says they should also give Mitzi a glass of sherry.
 * Patrick toasted that Mitzi is the best chef, but Mitzi protests that she is NOT a chef. In her own country she would be doing intellectual work.
 * Miss Blacklock notices that Phillipa looks worried and confronts Phillipa. Miss Blacklock thinks that it is because Phillipa has been seeing Patrick and she knows Patrick is not "the type to make a satisfactory husband" (143).
 * Phillipa tells Miss Blacklock that she has not been seeing Patrick and that she does not want to marry someone again.
 * Miss Blacklock tells Phillipa that she saw her lawyer today, Mr. Beddingfeld, and that she put Phillipa in her will. She will get everything "apart from Bunny's legacy" (143).
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Phillipa looked more scared then grateful. Phillipa asks why her, not Patrick and Julia. Miss Blacklock had a "odd note" in her voice when they were mentioned and just said they were just distant relatives (143).
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Miss Blacklock tells Phillipa if she can "avoid death due to the precautions", then there will be a significant amount of money left to Philipa (144).
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Julia confronted Phillipa, having heard the conversation. Julia tells Phillipa that if Miss Blacklock is killed now, she will be the number one suspect.