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A Murder is Announced Chapter 2 Summary

 * Miss Leticia Blacklock is the owner of the Little Paddocks, " Miss Blacklock, woman of sixty years old, the owner of the house sat at the head of the table" (12).
 * Dora Bunner, was reading the local paper and too her astonishment she noticed a murder is to take place at Little Paddocks. Miss Blacklock does not look surprised and questions both Patrick and Julia Simmons. " Patrick was this your idea" (13).
 * Dora Bunner and Miss Blacklock knew each other in school when they were kids. Miss Blacklock felt bad that Miss Bunner had a hard life due to her incompetence. " She had been painstaking but never competent at anything she took" (14).
 * Miss Blacklock provided lodging for Miss Bunner, in addition Miss Bunner would assist Leticia Blacklock with household chores, " I need someone to help run the house for me" (15).
 * Dora Bunner is still paranoid about the murder announcement in the //Gazette, "// It's dangerous. I'm sure it is. Like those people who send you bombs done up in parcels" (15).
 * Another woman that is extremely paranoid is a European assistant to Miss Blacklock named Mitzi. She feels upset that a murder is to occur at Little Paddocks and wants to leave due to the Nazis that wanted to kill her, " My enemies. The Nazis! They find out I am here here. They come to kill me" (16). She feels that since she escaped Europe's despotism that " My family will all die - they are killed- my mother, my little brother, my so sweet little niece - all, all they were all killed" (16).