Pip+and+Emma

Chapter 10: Pip and Emma
 * Inspector Craddock lets Miss Blacklock know about the opened door, and leads her to suspect one of her "“nice, commonplace neighbors”" as a possible murderer (89).
 * Miss Blacklock claims there is no one who would want to murder her.
 * Inspector Craddock asks her who her money would go to if she died, and she tells him Patrick and Julia, but that she will "“refuse to suspect them”" (90).
 * Miss Blacklock then says that she will become rich in a few weeks, at which point Craddock starts actually paying attention.
 * She begins to explain. Apparently, when she was younger, she worked as secretary to a financial big shot, Randall Goedler, who was famous for his “"daring speculations and… rather theatrical publicity”" (90). After he died, he left his fortune to his wife, Belle Goedler. After Belle’s death, Goedler’s millions would go to Miss Blacklock.
 * Although she was just his secretary, Miss Blacklock was treated as a junior partner by Goedler, especially after she helped him succeed in a large business //coup// by selling ""out every penny [she] had and [giving] it to him"" (91).
 * She explains that Belle is very ill, and is likely to die soon, which would mean a sudden influx of money for Miss Blacklock.
 * Miss Blacklock also mentions that Goedler disapproved of his sister, Sonia's marriage to a sketchy man named Dmitri Stamfordis, with whom she had two kids, Pip and Emma. However, he didn't write them out of his will. How generous of him.
 * If Miss Blacklock were to predecease Belle, the gigantic sum of money would go to the twenty-five year olds, Pip and Emma. There’s clearly no motive for murder there...
 * Craddock points out the danger in the Pip and Emma situation, tells her he thinks "'somebody shot at you with the intent to kill you,'" and warns her to be careful (93).
 * Inspector Craddock goes to visit Phillipa Haymes at the gardens.
 * He notices her beauty as before, but now, eying her with suspicion, observes that she has “something of repression­­—of tautness about her” (94).
 * Craddock asks Phillipa whether she had seen Rudi Sherz before the murder, and she confidently says no.
 * Then he specifies, asking why he has an account of her talking to Rudi in Little Paddocks. Ooooooh.
 * Phillipa tells him this information is wrong, but with a little hesitance. She also points out that Mitzi, who told Craddock this story, hates her.
 * She then says that she was not at Little Paddocks that morning.
 * When Craddock responds with "'which morning?" There was a momentary pause. Her eyelids flickered" (95).
 * Leaving Phillipa, Craddock talks to Sergeant Fletcher about the contradiction between Mitzi and Pippa’s stories. He is unable to shake off his doubts about Phillipa because of her hesitancy and her knowing that her alleged conversation with Rudi took place in the morning. Oops.
 * Later on, Inspector Craddock sits with Miss Marple in the vicarage garden.
 * He warns her that it may not be safe to stay with Bunch, even though she insists she must because her and Bunch's parents go way back.
 * Miss Marple and Craddock discuss how society has changed since the war, and how "“fifteen years ago one knew who everybody was”" (97). She points out that immigration has caused a loss of neighborhood unity and safety.
 * Craddock and Miss Marple then note how Patrick and Julia have the characteristics of Pip and Emma.
 * Miss Marple says she will find out as much as she can, and Craddock replies by gently saying, "“I’ve warned you"” (99).

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