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A Murder is Announced Chapter 20 Summary

 * Miss Blacklock receives a letter from a girl who says she'll be visiting.
 * It's signed "Yours affectionately, Julia Simmons" (183) - This raises a red flag and Miss Blacklock demands to know who is the girl that calls herself Julia, living in her house.
 * Patrick explains that he met this friend at a cocktail party and she agreed to go along with him to Chipping Cleghorn.
 * "The real Julia" joined an acting company but told her Mom that she was attending school in Chipping Cleghorn (184).
 * Julia explains that she is "one half of the Pip and Emma combination" (she's Emma) (184).
 * She also says that although she has a good motive for killing Miss Blacklock, (obviously), she didn't try to murder her but the only proof of that is her word.
 * It turns out Patrick was supposed to tell the real Julia to "keep away," but he forgot (186).
 * Miss Blacklock asks Julia where her twin is and Julia responds she hasn't seen Pip since they were 3.
 * Inspector Craddock comes in and says Miss Murgaftoyd was murdered, and interviews Julia and Patrick for alibis.
 * The two say they were not at Little Paddocks, but they were nowhere near Boulders (where Miss Murgatroyd lived).
 * Bunch calls and tells Craddock that she can't find Miss Marple anywhere and she's flipping out, but Miss Marple wrote something on a piece of paper before she left the house; it could be important, but it looks like gibberish.
 * As Miss Blacklock was nervously clutching her pearls, they broke and she completely freaked out and started sobbing hysterically which totally surprised everyone in the room because they had never seen Miss Blacklock like this before.
 * Craddock suspects that they were real pearls and if someone knew about them, it would be "worth a murder" (189).
 * Craddock finds Bunch and Julian.
 * They last saw Miss Marple at Miss Murtragoyd and Miss Hinchliffe's home.
 * Fletcher doesn't know where she is either.
 * Craddock remembers the piece of paper Miss Marple had been writing on.
 * It mentions a few seemingly-random notes such as, "lamp...violets...where is t.he bottle of aspirin...delicious death...making enquiries...severe affliction bravely borne...iodine...pearls...Lotty...old age pension" (191).
 * Craddock leaves the vicarage to search for Miss Marple.
 * Fletcher appears and calls Craddock over to tell him something.