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Chapter 20: Miss Marple is Missing:
 * This afternoon, the postman "left three letters at Little Paddocks", one for Phillipa, who was home due to the "torrential rain", and two for Miss Blacklock (182)
 * One of the letters for Letty was shockingly from Julia Simmons, who asks if it "will be all right for [her] to come to [Miss Blacklock] on Tuesday"; this makes no sense, as there is already a girl with them claiming to be Julia (182)
 * Miss Blacklock, full of "astonishment" and "grimness", shows Phillipa the letter, and tells her to "call Patrick and Julia"; when Patrick comes, Letty tells Phillipa not to leave (183)
 * When confronted, Patrick admits that the letter "is from [his] sister Julia, who he had forgotten to reply to, and that "he met [the girl with him] at a cocktail party"; this girl replaced Julia so that Patrick's real sister could "join a jolly good repertory company up in Perth" (183-184)
 * "Julia, cool and aloof, came into the room", and also reveals that she is "one-half of the Pip and Emma combination", "Emma Jocelyn Stamfordis"; when she and Pip were young, their parents divorced, and Emma was her "father's part of the loot" (184)
 * Emma, after many years with her father and adventures such as the French Resistance, was thinking of the future; she looked up her uncle's will, and found that "[Miss Blacklock] was [her] best bet"; with "a marvelous stroke of luck, [she] met Patrick", and after they fell for each other, she "soon persuaded [the real Julia] it was her duty to art to go" pursue her dreams (185)
 * She says she had to continue to lie as she had "a perfectly good motive for putting [Letty] out of the way; Emma, after what seemed to be a hesitation, says she hasn't [seen either Pip or [her] mother" (184-185)
 * Miss Blacklock asks if Emma learned "to shoot" when she was "with the French Resistance", and Emma tells her that "if [she] had shot at [her], [she] wouldn't have been likely to miss" (186-187)
 * "A new Inspector Craddock" comes to Little Paddock, announcing that "Miss Murgatroyd has been murdered"; he asks Julia and Patrick where they were, and while Patrick says that they came back together from Milchester, Julia admits that she "went for a walk... across the fields" (187)
 * A worried Mrs. Bunch calls just as this happening, telling Craddock that "Miss Marple has not come back to the vicarage", and that "there's a paper" she "was writing on... before she went out" (188)
 * Miss Blacklock was "pulling at the choker of pearls round her neck", and it "broke under the clutch of her nervous fingers"; she "cried out in an anguished tone", "turned, her hand to her throat, and rushed sobbing out of the room" (188-189)
 * "Phillipa began picking up the pearls", and she and Craddock wonder if the pearls could be real; if they were, they would be "worth doing for - if anybody knew about them..." (189)
 * Craddock meets Bunch and Julian to try and find Jane Marple, who was last seen "talking to Sergeant Fletcher"; oddly enough, Fletcher was "neither to be found [at Boulders]" nor at Milchester (190)
 * The piece of paper had words scribbled on it, such as "Lamp", "Violets", "Where is bottle of aspirin?", "Delicious Death", "Making Enquiries", "Iodine", "Pearls", "Lotty", "Berne", and "Old Age Pension"; Craddock thinks "her e's look like o's" due to the spelling of inquiries and Letty (191)
 * Craddock tells the Harmons that the pearls could be real, but he says that it is more important to first find Marple, so he decides that "all he could do" was "search"; all of a sudden, as Craddock left the vicarage, Sergeant Fletcher calls out to him (192)

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