Enter+Miss+Marple

Chapter 8: Enter Miss Marple
 * The Chief Constable thinks the case is closed, but Craddock thinks there is more to it.
 * He thinks "“the foreign girl knows more than she lets on”" (68).
 * The police received a letter from an old lady named Jane Marple and the Chief Constable, Sir Henry, and Craddock all go to the Royal Spa for lunch to meet with her.
 * Miss Marple tells them Rudi altered her check at the Royal Spa Hotel.
 * The police find out that “"he’s got a police record in Switzerland”" and assume he probably came to England with forged papers (72).
 * Miss Marple thinks Rudi's girl, Myrna Harris, knows more than she told Craddock since while waiting on Miss Marple she made a mistake she would not have under normal circumstances. Something was clearly occupying her mind.
 * Miss Marple also thinks that Rudi was put up to the hold up.
 * Miss Marple's theory is that he "“keeps himself going in ready money so that he can dress well and take a girl about”" with petty theft, but she thinks he wouldn't have done the hold up on his own (73). He committed minor crimes, not ones that used a gun.
 * Miss Marple looks at the police record with the police's permission and spots small things they didn’t see.
 * She says it was so dark in the house that no one could have seen the masked man since the flashlight blinded everyone with it's light, proving she is sharp.
 * Miss Marple thinks he was told it was a joke, and was paid to break into the house but after he called ""hands up!"" someone came behind him and fired the two shots (76). It scared him, and as he turned around the other person shot him and left the revolver there.
 * She says they need to ask Mrs. Blacklock who wants her dead.
 * Craddock goes to Myrna Harris to question her again, going off Miss Marple's assumption she wasn't telling him everything.
 * She says Rudi broke a date with her and "“he said he’d got a bit of a lark on that night - and that he wasn’t going to be out of pocket by it”" (77).
 * Myrna says Rudi showed her the advertisement in the paper, and laughed thinking it was a joke.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Myrna “thought if [she] said [she] knew about it beforehand, it would look as though [she] were in on the whole thing” which is why she didn't tell Craddock everything earlier (78).
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Myrna says he didn’t say anything about a gun, and that she thought the robbery was all Rudi's idea.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The police think the mystery person could be Mitzi, since "she strikes [me] as a nasty bit of good" (79).
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">There were other ways of exiting that were not functioning at the time but “a professional would have ways of opening that door all right” (79).
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Craddock asks if he can have more time to work on the case, and he is given it.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Craddock thinks that there might be an attempt to kill Miss Blacklock again.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Chief Constable wants Craddock to look after Miss Marple, which he agrees to do.

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