Questions

The // North Benham News and the Chipping Cleghorn Gazette (The Gazette) //
 * In what publication is the murder announced?**

Excited and questioning
 * What is the general initial reaction from all of the ladies upon seeing the advertisement?**

Edmund Swettenham
 * Which character reads the communistic newspaper //The Daily Worker//?**

Letitia Blacklock
 * What character owns Little Paddocks where the murder occurs?**

Three
 * How many shots are fired at Little Paddocks at 6:30 PM?**

Rudi Scherz
 * Who is found dead at Little Paddocks after the shots are fired?**

Yes, Dora Bunner points out to Miss Blacklock that this is the man from the Spa Hotel in Medenham Wells who wanted Miss Blacklock to give him money to go back to Switzerland but she refused to do so.
 * Does anyone recognize the dead man at the time of the crime?**

Mrs. Harmon
 * Who does Miss Marple stay with during her visit to Chipping Cleghorn to investigate?**

The //North Benham News and the Chipping Cleghorn Gazette (The Gazette)//
 * At the end of the book, Edmund Swettenham insists he does not want which newspaper?**


 * What is the sore thumb when Detective Inspector Craddock enters **

The dead violets.
 * the drawing room of Little **** Paddocks? **

One of the lamps is shaped like a shepherd, while the other one is shaped like a shepherdess. The shepherdess lamp was in the archway on the day of the holdup, but it was then replaced by the shepherd lamp, which was there the following morning.
 * Dora Bunner describes the lamp in the archway as being "one of a pair." Which of the two lamps is in the archway at the end of the story, and how does it differ from the lamp that was there during the holdup?**

Letitia Blacklock was shot, but fortunately the bullet only ripped through her ear, leaving her bloody but mostly unharmed.
 * Who was shot at 6:30 P.M.?**

Inspector Craddock.
 * Who is Sir Henry's godson?**

She was secretary, but was treated as a junior partner.
 * What position did Miss Blacklock hold when working for Randall Goedler?**

Dmitri Stamfordis
 * What is the name of the man Sonia Goedler married?**

In a letter to Belle Goedler, Sonia tells her she has two children with Dmitri Stamfordis, Pip and Emma.
 * Who are Pip and Emma?**

Aspirin taken from the bedside table of Miss Letitia Blacklock
 * What poisons Miss Dora Bunner?**

SPOILER QUESTIONS

He deserted from his regiment, and died around the time of the Little Paddocks fiasco after getting hit by a truck when saving a child.
 * Phillipa Hayme's husband didn't die while fighting in Italy; what actually happened to him?**

Miss. Phillipa Haymes
 * Who does Edmund Swettenham marry?**

Letitia Blacklock killed her because the absent-minded Dora might have accidentally let Letitia's true identity slip out.
 * Who killed Dora Bunner, and what was the motive behind the murder?**

That the killer was a woman
 * What revelation does Miss Murgatroyd reveal shortly before her death?**

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