Delicious+Death

Chapter 15: Delicious Death
 * Miss Blacklock is preparing a big birthday celebration for Miss Bunner, she is telling Mitzi to prepare some sandwiches and scones, and to make her special cake.
 * Mitzi is nervous; she thinks that the party will end up being a repeat of what happened before, even though the odds of something like that happening again are slim to nil. Maybe she's subconsciously aware that she's in a murder mystery. She is beginning to make Miss Blacklock angry with her paranoia.
 * The cake that Mitzi is going to make is richer than Bill Gates and very sweet. Patrick calls it “Delicious Death” because he thinks the cake is worth dying for (138). Mitzi hates the cake being called that, even though Miss Blacklock tries to tell her it’s a compliment.
 * Miss Bunner is very happy already because several people have already given her gifts and wished her a happy birthday.
 * The party goes well and everyone enjoys the food. However, multiple people, including Julia and Patrick report feeling sick because their stomachs are used to bland British food and the richness of the cake is too much for them.
 * Miss Hinchcliffe mentions that she saw someone that she didn’t know in the garden, and asks if they have a new gardener. Julia says that it's just the detective snooping around. Everyone at the party is surprised that the murder is still being investigated. Julia says that the detective is there to "protect Aunt Letty", but when Edmund makes a joke about someone wanting to murder others, Miss Bunner flips out and says that "nobody here could possibly want to kill dear,dear Letty" (140,141).
 * Julia and Patrick are glad that Mrs. Harmon and Miss Marple didn't come because Mrs. Harmon would keep asking about people wanting to murder Miss Blacklock, and because Miss Marple is "the prying type" (141).
 * The party ends after everyone watches TV and argues about politics for a bit.
 * Miss Bunner says that she enjoyed the party, but that now she has a terrible headache. She says that she’ll just take a few aspirin and go to sleep. She then goes upstairs
 * Miss Bunner comes back downstairs saying, unsurprisingly, that she can’t find her brand new bottle of aspirin. Both Miss Blacklock and Phillipa offer up theirs, and Julia says that there’s a ton of aspirin in the bathroom. Miss Bunner then goes back upstairs.
 * Everyone else breaks out the sherry and makes a toast to Mitzi for her excellent cooking.
 * Miss Blacklock confronts Phillipa and says that she has noticed Phillipa looking worried lately. Miss Blacklock asks Phillipa if she and Patrick are together, but Phillipa insists that she will never marry again. Miss Blacklock says that she will, and then asks Phillipa if she’s having any money issues. Miss Blacklock then tells Phillipa that she has changed her will so that when she dies everything that doesn’t go to Miss Bunner goes to Phillipa. Phillipa is shocked by this, and says she can’t accept this. When Miss Blacklock insists Phillipa asks why Miss Blacklock would leave the money to her instead of Patrick and Julia. Miss Blacklock responds by saying that Patrick and Julia are only distant relatives and have no claim to her inheritance.
 * Miss Blacklock says that if she dies soon Phillipa’s inheritance won’t be much, but if she takes some mysterious "precautions" then Phillipa will be a very rich woman (144).
 * Julia approaches Phillipa and accuses her of playing Miss Blacklock, saying that she's a "dark horse" that if anything happens to Miss Blacklock or Belle Goedler Phillipa will be "suspect number 1" (144). She's probably just offended that Miss Blacklock didn't want to leave anything to her.

Miss Bunner's last meal was recreated here

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