Letitia+(Lettie)+Blacklock

Letitia (Lettie) Blacklock

 * Character Analysis **

Letitica Blacklock also known as Letty or Lotty by her friends is the owner of Little Paddocks, the location of where the so called "murder game" happens. Letitia is sixty odd years old, and a women who does not care much about money, thus, does not store any large sums of money inside the house. She currently live together with her good friend Dora Bunner. When Letitia first hears about this from the newspaper she does not think much of it, and initially suspected Patrick of sending in the ad based on his history of practical jokes. On the night of the murder, she was shot in the ears by Rudi Scherz and the blood from her ears dripped all over her shirt and pearl necklace. Towards the end of the story, the author throws a huge curve ball at us and Letitia Blacklock is actually Charlotte Blacklock, the sister that everyone thought had died. Turns out Letitia is the one who died in Switzerland. The true motive of Charlotte was to take the fortune that Goedler had left for Letitia before they escaped to Switzerland. Also the reason why she was also seen wearing pearls because it was to hide a childhood surgery.

 This shows how shady of a character Ms. Blacklock is, trying to act like her sister, be kind to her neighbors and friends, but in truth tries to scam Goedler's fortune, going into desperate measures like murdering 2 people. Despite her horrible schemes it shows how intelligent how she can actually be deceiving so many people and almost getting away with it if not busted.