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A Murder is Announced Chapter 17 Summary

 * Miss Marple is "standing by the vicarage gate" waiting to get a note (151).
 * Bunch hands Miss Marple a note from Julian to Miss Blacklock which is about Dora Bunner's funeral.
 * Julian was too busy dealing with a dying parishioner.
 * Bunch has to rush off to bring a sick child to the hospital.
 * Bunch worries Miss Marple's walk was too much of a burden. What a gentlemen, but s he assured him it was fine.
 * Miss Marple thinks about Dora Bunner's comment, saying "Patrick had tampered with the lamp" (151).
 * Bunner's comment referred to "the small lamp that stood on the table by the archway" (151).
 * The lamp is "one of a pair" (152). (one is a shepherdess, the other is a shepherd).
 * Bunner believed Patrick changed them and made "the lights go out"(152).
 * Miss Marple wonders where the shepherdess lamp is.
 * Miss Blacklock thinks Patrick was the one who made the advertisement in the Gazette.
 * Miss Marple trails on about Patrick Simmons being "a handsome young man" (152).
 * She starts to believe that he is very suspicious, but changes her mind.
 * Miss Blacklock enters looking extremely tired.
 * Miss Marple gives Miss Blacklock the note.
 * Miss Marple sees that Miss Blacklock is upset and comforts her. What a kind friend she is.
 * Letitia Blacklock cries with a "piteous, overmastering grief" (153).
 * Bunner was Blacklock's "only link with the past" (153).
 * Miss Marple understands Miss Blacklock's grief and situation.
 * Miss Blacklock gives Miss Marple a note to pass onto the vicar.
 * Letitia Blacklock reveals that she is arthritic.
 * "With a grim angry face" Inspector Craddock enters the room (154).
 * Miss Marple is nervous and uncomfortable in Craddock's presence.
 * Craddock begins to question Miss Marple.
 * Craddock feels somewhat responsible for Bunner's death.
 * He points out to Miss Blacklock that Patrick and Julia Simmons would "profit by your death" (155).
 * Craddock starts to ask about Sonia Goedler. He must be onto something.
 * He wants to see a picture of Sonia, even if it is old, Mrs. Swettenham might be Sonia Goedler.
 * Miss Blacklock also reveals she is nearsighted.
 * Craddock helps find the photo album that Julia and Miss Blacklock recently looked at.
 * They discover that all the pictures of Sonia were removed. What a coincidence!
 * Whoever removed the pictures did so recently.