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A Murder is Announced Chapter 19 Summary

 * Bunch is getting ready to leave but wants to turn on the lamp for Miss Marple. Tiglath- Pilesar was being a pain in the neck with the cord. He “bit and clawed it violently” (171).
 * Water from the flowers spilled and the cat was wet and angry, big shock.
 * All of the lights went out and Miss Marple sat in the dark for a little while and wrote down “lamp?” on a piece of paper (172). Strange...
 * Miss Murgatroyd and Miss Hinchliffe are talking and Miss Hinchliffe decides that Miss Murgatroyd “didn’t hold the door open for the murderer” (172). Thank you Sherlock.
 * Murgatroyd gave a suspicious “watery” smile (172).
 * The details of how the murder was possible are talked about and they mention that the murderer couldn’t hold the door, shine a flashlight and shoot a revolver at the same time.
 * They rule out Rudi as the person who poisoned Dora Bunner because he’s dead, duh.
 * Sweetie Easterbrook is now a suspect for the poisoning.
 * Murgatroyd and Hinch talk about realistically what could have happened.
 * Hinch tries to get Murgatroyd to remember what she saw when the flashlight shined throughout the room.
 * Miss Murgatroyd is choked to death with her own “woolen scarf” by some mysterious person, probably because she knew too much (178).
 * Miss Marple and Miss Hinchliffe go to visit Bunch and notice that the chickens haven’t been fed.
 * Miss Hinchliffe says that she narrowed it down to “one of three possibilities” and the she went to dial the police (181).
 * “She wasn’t there” is repeated a lot by Miss Marple as if the emphasis put on “there” by Hinchliffe is important, interesting (182).