While Miss Marple comforts Miss Blacklock, Inspector Craddock is trying to trace two people from her past, Pip and Emma, who would also be beneficiaries. But the past remains bafflingly obscure.

Miss Marple, on a visit at the vicarage, instinctively knows it is not and that if one murder occurs then others will follow. As nothing makes sense for Inspector Craddock, he is forced to enlist ...

Inspector Craddock is pursuing his investigations methodically, while Miss Marple finds that the more she gets to know the people in the village, the more everything becomes shrouded in doubt.