Intro

In a Nutshell
In a small town oddly named [|Chipping Cleghorn] there is an add placed in the local newspaper of a murder that is to occur that night. The whole town thought that it was a joke until the lights went out and three shots later someone's dead and Miss Blacklock's ear was bleeding. If a dead man wasn't a sure sign that the evening was not a joke, I don't know what was. Everyone freaks out a little and then an investigation starts so that the murderer could be found. Everyone in town is a suspect and suddenly people start dying left and right. Miss Marple and Detective Craddock make it their mission to find out who's guilty but they run into some twists in the road along the way.

Why Should I Care?
We know you’re not going to become a detective from this book. But seriously- have you ever tried to figure out a secret without knowing the whole story? Cold hard facts, red herrings, opinions, irrelevant details, vague stories, missing puzzle pieces and skewed perspectives of the truth? Many people would go insane trying to fish through all of the fluff in order to figure out what is important.

The Murder consumes the book. Throughout the whole book, the reader tries to guess who the murderer is. The reader tries to fish though the fluff to find the true evidence and who really committed the crime. People don't tell the truth so its difficult for the investigator and reader to find out what really happened. There are many clues, but also many red herrings to deceive people.

Unfortunately there's some sort of casualties to some events, what with characters investigating each other and harshly interrogating. So it's smart not to take character's assumptions too seriously. Write the facts instead, because if you have wondered about it lucidly, the conclusion of this text is not so clear, we couldn't see through it. What with containing "red herrings" and such, //A Murder Is Announced// is composed in a specific method and hides within it more than a few clues. So in a shameless impersonation of Red Bull: taking notes gives you clues.