Village+Life

Chipping Cleghorn represents a typical English village full of different and unusual characters. All the neighbors know each other, nobody locks their doors before dark and everybody gets involved in any event that occurs. Besides those facts, people are not what they seem. In the end of the story, the plot unfolds and Miss Blacklock was her sister Charlotte Blacklock who went with Leticia to Switzerland for an operation, but came back to England in order to live as the typical Miss Blacklock so she could receive the inheritance.
 * A Murder is Announced Theme of Village Life **

Questions About Village Life

 * 1) How does neighborly communication affect the interpretations of the crime?
 * 2) Why did Agatha Christie choose to set the novel in the small English village of Chipping Cleghorn?
 * 3) Is the setting ultimately instrumental in solving the case?

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The close relationship of the village dwellers ultimately influences public opinion of the crime.