Pip+and+Emma

A Murder is Announced Chapter 10 Summary

 * Craddock tells Miss Blacklock what he's discovered about the door, and now she's starting to pay attention
 * Blacklock says that when she's dead, everything goes to Patrick and Julia, but she's a little poor anyways
 * She then says, rather cryptically, that one day she "might be worth murdering", but not now (90)
 * It turns out she was the secretary for this super rich guy, Randall Goedler, who left all his money to his wife, Belle, and then, after she dies, to Miss Blacklock
 * Letty explains that Randall owed her big time because she once saved his financial work
 * IShe had to stopp working for him because her father died and she had to look after her sister at a mental hospital in Switzerland, who apparently "died of consumption" there, which is why she only came back to England a year ago (92)
 * But guess what: Belle is dying!!
 * And if Miss Blacklock ends up dying before the wife, the money would go to "Pip and Emma", the estranged twin niece and nephew of Goedler (92)
 * Miss Blacklock thinks this is a rather amusing story. The Inspector? Not so much.
 * He leaves her with an ominous warning that people may still be after her life ( hopefully they succeed second time around)
 * Craddock visits Mrs. Haymes at work, saying that it would be easier to talk to her there than at Little Paddocks
 * He tells her about how Mitzi told him she had seen Mrs. Haymes talking to Rudi Scherz before the murder
 * Mrs. Haymes laughs, denies it and says that Mitzi is a liar and she shouldn't be trusted.
 * She then says that she's at work every morning and that she "doesn't get away until one o'clock" (95)
 * Now it's Sargent Fletcher talking with Craddock
 * Apparently everyone agrees that Mitzi lies frequently and, of course, foreigners can't be trusted
 * Craddock, though, still suspects Mrs. Haymes because "there had been a note of fear in her voice as she asked: 'In the summer house?'" (95)
 * After all that tiresome detectiving, Craddock visits Miss Marple, who's staying with the Harmons
 * He doesn't think it's safe for her to be in Chipping Cleghorn, especially if she's going to be creeping on everyone
 * She says she'll be fine because "old women always do snoop" (96)
 * She then reminisces about how people in small towns used to know each other so well before, and now they barely know each other at all because they're "full of people who've just come and settled down there without any ties to bring them." (97)
 * Craddock thinks about how not knowing who's who is the problem, and that people might not even match their identity cards anymore
 * He tells Miss Marple about Pip and Emma, who, now that he thinks about it, sound a lot like Julia and Patrick
 * They part ways with Craddock telling Miss Marple that he's going to Scotland to check up on Belle and that she should be careful