https://padlet.com/mohamadchalambari/vc3cv4oody47 Summary of Agatha Christie's criminal story en-us 2019-10-20 16:56:17 UTC 2019-10-22 14:28:54 UTC hello@padlet.com mohamadchalambari https://padlet.com/mohamadchalambari/vc3cv4oody47/wish/400002843 One morning, the body of a young girl is found in the library of Gossington Hall, in the quiet village of St Mary Mead, England. The girl has been strangled. The hall belongs to a respectable couple, Colonel and Mrs Bantry, who have no idea who she is or how she got there. Mrs Bantry calls her friend, Miss Jane Marple, an elderly lady with a skill for solving murders, to help investigate the crime. The Chief Constable, Colonel Melchett, arrives and interviews Colonel Bantry, and then decides to visit Basil Blake, a flamboyant young man who lives nearby. He suspects the dead girl may be Blake’s girlfriend. However, while he is talking to Blake, the girlfriend in question arrives. Melchett learns that a professional dancer, matching the description of the murdered girl, has gone missing from a hotel in Danemouth. Josie Turner, a relative of the dead girl and a work companion, identifies the body as Ruby Keene. Josie tells Miss Marple and Melchett that Conway Jefferson, an old invalid man, had called the police about Ruby’s disappearance. Miss Marple is suspicious of Josie. Later, Colonel Melchett talks to the hotel manager, who says Mr Jefferson was interested in Ruby Keene, and Adelaide Jefferson, Mr Jefferson’s daughter-in-law, confirms this.Melchett talks to Conway Jefferson and discovers that the old man was planning to adopt Ruby Keene and leave her 50,000 pounds in his will, and that his son-in-law, Mark Gaskell, and his daughter-in-law were not happy with the idea. Melchett and Superintendent Harper agree that this is a motive, but realise the two people have alibis.Miss Marple has a conversation with Adelaide Jefferson and Mark Gaskell. She learns that they didn’t like Ruby Keene. They thought she was after their father-in-law’s money and Mark Gaskell wanted her dead. The police are informed that a burnt-out car has been found with the remains of a body inside. The police assume the remains are those of a recently missing school girl, Pamela Reeves. The car, which may belong to George Bartlett, a guest at the hotel, had been set alight with petrol, and the police speculate as to whether the two crimes are connected. The police now have many suspects: Basil Blake, George Bartlett, Mark Gaskell, Adelaide Jefferson and Raymond Starr, a dancer at the hotel, but they all have alibis or do not have a motive.Mrs Bantry learns that Adelaide Jefferson has very little money and is worried about the future of her son. The police discover that Mark Gaskell doesn’t have any money either. Miss Marple announces that she knows who killed Ruby Keene, but will not say who it is at this stage. Mr Edwards, Conway Jefferson’s servant, says that he thought that Ruby Keene was trying to get Mr Jefferson’s money. He said he didn’t think she loved the old man and he thought that she might have had a secret lover.Miss Marple discovers that Pamela Reeves had told a friend that she was going to meet a man to do a film test on the night she died. She then talks to Basil Blake and he tells her he found Ruby Keene’s body in his house when he arrived home drunk. He decided to take the body and put it in Colonel Bantry’s library for a joke. The police arrive and arrest him for murder. Conway Jefferson tells his son and daughter-in-law that he is going to change his will. That night, someone tries to kill Jefferson in his bed, but the police are there and apprehend her. Miss Marple then sums up the case. The body in the library was not that of Ruby Keene, it was that of the young girl, Pamela Reeves. Mark Gaskell and Josie had married secretly one year earlier and they wanted to be certain of inheriting Mr Jefferson’s money. Mark killed Pamela, dressed her up in Ruby’s clothes, and left her in Basil Blake’s house. Josie killed Ruby and dressed her in Pamela’s clothes. Then she drove to a quarry in Bartlett’s car and set fire to it. Josie then tried to kill Mr Jefferson with a drug. ]]> 2019-10-20 17:10:05 UTC https://padlet.com/mohamadchalambari/vc3cv4oody47/wish/400002843