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A Murder is Announced Book key 7 a No, he didn’t. b Locked in the dining-room. 1 Open answers c Dora Bunner had made her a little nervous. 2 a choker b violets c glanced d flex d She hadn’t seen the announcement. e summerhouse f colonel g aspirin e Yes, it was. h shepherd i will j motive f He killed himself. 3 a Colonel Easterbrook b Mrs Harmon c Mitzi g Next to the vase of roses. d Edmund Swettenham e Dora Bunner h Nothing. f Detective-Inspector Craddock g Miss Blacklock 8 a Sir Henry > the police b signed > changed h Phillipa Haymes i Rudi Scherz c behaving normally > looking worried j Patrick Simmons d fire the gun > act out a hold-up 4 1 Miss Blacklock: about sixty, wears a pearl choker. 9 a Phillipa Haymes b has been opened recently Lives at Little Paddocks with Dora Bunner, Patrick c already in the sitting-room and Julia Simmons, Phillipa Haymes and Mitzi. 10 a 3 b 7 c 4 d 5 e 6 f 2 g 1 Is the host at the ‘party’. 11 a Pip and Emma b Miss Blacklock 2 Mitzi: a young woman with dark flashing eyes. 12 a Rudi Scherz shines a powerful torch around the Lives at Little Paddocks with Miss Blacklock, room. The light from the torch prevents anyone Dora Bunner, Patrick and Julia Simmons and from seeing clearly what happens. Phillipa Haymes. Cooks for the party. b Mitzi hears a conversation in a summerhouse 3 Colonel Easterbrook: an older man with a grey between Phillipa Haymes and a man. She thinks moustache. Lives with his wife, who is at least Phillipa is arranging for Rudi Scherz to come to the thirty years younger. Is at the party because his wife house and kill someone. persuades him to go. c Inspector Craddock discovers another door that 4 Amy Murgatroyd: a round pleasant woman opens from the sitting-room into the hall. The lock with untidy grey hair. Lives with her friend Miss has been oiled recently. This means that anyone Hinchcliffe. Is at the party because she is curious could have gone out into the hall without being about the invitation in the Gazette. noticed. 5 a The invitation to a murder appears in the Chipping d Randall Goedler, a very rich businessman, made Cleghorn Gazette. a will. In the will he left his money to his wife, b Mitzi is afraid of the Nazis. When the but then to Miss Blacklock when his wife dies. advertisement for the murder first appears, she However, if Miss Blacklock dies first, his money thinks the Nazis have found her and are trying to will go (after his wife’s death) to his sister Sonia’s kill her. children, Pip and Emma. Pip and Emma therefore c Everybody who comes to the party comments on have a strong motive for murdering Miss Blacklock. the roses and the central heating at Little Paddocks, e The invalid lady living in Scotland is Randall but this is really just for something to say. Goedler’s widow, Belle. The time of her death d A vase of violets and a cigarette-box are both on the seems to be very important to events in Chipping small table in the living room. Cleghorn. e Phillipa Haymes has a gardening job at Dayas Hall. 13 Possible answers: f Myrna Harris works as a waitress at the Royal Spa a Mitzi dislikes Phillipa Haymes. Hotel and went out with Rudi Scherz to the cinema b Sir Henry Clithering admires greatly. and other places. c Inspector Craddock thinks Mitzi is a very difficult 6 Open answers and confusing person. d Miss Blacklock is fond of Dora Bunner, but she also finds her annoying. e Inspector Craddock is worried about Miss Marple because she might find herself in danger.

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14–15 Open answers 22–23 Open answers 16 a Dora Bunner b Patrick Simmons 24 a 5 b 8 c 2 d 1 e 3 f 7 g 4 h 6 c Mrs Swettenham d Phillipa Haymes 25 Julia Simmons Walking along the field e Colonel Easterbrook leading down to the river 17 a NO b YES c YES d NO e YES by Compton Farm f YES g NO h YES i YES j YES Mrs Swettenham Clearing out leaves from 18 a Sergeant Fletcher is surprised that Mrs Swettenham the pipes on the roof could just walk into Little Paddocks; the door is Edmund Swettenham Sleeping unlocked. Colonel Easterbrook Talking to a farmer about b Miss Hinchcliffe realises that the burglar couldn’t some chickens hold a torch, a gun and keep the swing door from Mrs Easterbrook 1 Sitting with her husband closing. in his study c Colonel Easterbrook shows surprise that his gun is 2 Listening to the radio missing. d Dora Bunner is surprised because the shepherdess 26 a Julia Simmons (the real one) joined a theatre lamp was on the table on the night of the hold-up, company. but the next day the shepherd lamp was in its place. b Miss Marple hides in a cupboard full of brushes to e Phillipa Haymes is surprised because Miss Blacklock catch the murderer. says she has made a new will. Phillipa will inherit c Miss Blacklock probably cut her ear with nail most of her money. scissors to make it bleed. f Miss Blacklock and Julia show surprise that there d Miss Marple told Mitzi that she was like the brave are empty spaces in the book of photographs. girls in the French Resistance. This encouraged Someone has removed all the photos of Sonia Mitzi to act out a part to catch the murderer. Goedler. e Switzerland was world-famous for operations to g Amy Murgatroyd is surprised because she realises remove goitre. that someone had moved from their place at the f Rudi Scherz met Miss Blacklock when he worked as time of the hold-up. an attendant in a hospital in Berne. 19–20 Open answers 27 a Yes b Yes c Yes d No e Yes f Yes 21 a Miss Marple is worried because Belle Goedler is g No h No + Open answers a dying woman. The person who is trying to kill 28 a The lamp was changed for another one. Miss Blacklock seems to want to kill her before b The violets died because the water in the vase was Belle Goedler dies. So there may be another used to fuse the lamp. attempt very soon. c Miss Blacklock wanted to arrange a ‘delicious death’ b Captain Haymes was hit by a lorry and taken to for Dora Bunner; she wanted to make her last day hospital on the 28th. He was still in hospital when very happy. the hold-up took place on the 29th. d Dora admired Miss Blacklock because she suffered c The cat jumps onto the table and spills water onto illness (her goitre) very bravely. Miss Marple realises the flex of a lamp. The lamp fuses and the lights go that Dora was talking about Charlotte, not Letitia. off. This shows Miss Marple what happened on the e Miss Blacklock always wore a choker of pearls to night of the hold-up. Water was spilt and a lamp hide the mark left from her operation to remove the was fused, causing everything to go dark. goitre. d Miss Murgatroyd was standing behind the door. f There were two Miss Blacklocks – Letitia (Letty) She was the only person whose eyes were not and Charlotte (Lotty). Dora Bunner sometimes blinded by the man’s torch. She could therefore see confused the names. what was happening in the room.

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29 Name of Method Reason for 17 Open answers murdered murder 18 Suggested answers: Edmund Swettenham had a person pot of honey for Mrs Lucas from his mother. Mrs First Rudi Scherz was shot had recognised Swettenham took Miss Blacklock a basket of apples. murder a patient from Miss Murgatroyd couldn’t hold her torch and a Switzerland pretend gun because the door was a swing door. Miss Blacklock had left her furniture to Dora Bunner in her Second Dora took was getting will. Dora Bunner had seen Patrick with an oily cup murder Bunner poisoned very careless; and a feather in the garden. aspirin might say the 19–21 Open answers wrong name 22 She admired her. She was worried that Pip and Third Amy scarf pulled had seen who Emma might hurt Miss Blacklock. Because she had a murder Murgatroyd tightly was missing headache. That she had left her a lot of money in her around her from the will. It was a shepherd not a shepherdess. A book of neck sitting-room at photos. the time of the 23–25 Open answers first murder 26 When a word is stressed in a sentence it means that it 30–40 Open answers is the most important information therefore it could indicate what was so surprising for Amy, the person, Discussion activities key the time or the place. 1 Suggested words: afraid, ambulance, bleed, burglar, 27–30 Open answers chase, court, crime, criminal, danger, defence, 31 An is proof that a person was somewhere or with detective, enemy, gangster, hijack, hurt, jealous, kill, somebody at the time of a crime and it means this knife, pill, poison, scream, suffer person could not have committed the crime. 2 Open answers 32 Open answers 3 She was educated at home until the age of 16 and she was given a lot of freedom to form her own ideas. Activity worksheets key Open answers. She based her detectives on real life 1 a Edmund Swettenham b Colonel Easterbrook people; Poirot on Belgian officers and soldiers and c Reverend Harmon d Miss Blacklock Miss Marple on her grandmother. She used her e Patrick f Mitzi g Dora Bunner experience working in hospitals and she observed the h Phillipa Haymes world around her and made notes about ordinary 2 deliver – a paper people and events. pour – a coffee 4–13 Open answers feed – chickens 14 Mitzi is a Polish Jew who fled her country during glance – at the clock the war because of the invasion by Nazi Germany. pretend – to be surprised + Open answers switch on – the lights 15 Open answers lean – forward 16 If Miss Blacklock dies, Pip and Emma will inherit stop the – bleeding their uncle’s money. + Open answers act out – a robbery shine – a torch

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3 a advertisement b annoying c heating 10 a Dark storm clouds had been gathering in the sky. d attempt e willingly f bandage g greeted b The choker of pearls broke under Miss Blacklock’s h exaggerates nervous fingers. 4 a 3 b 7 c 7 d 3 e 3 f 7 g 3 h 3 c The three women sat in a row facing Inspector 5 a train > police Craddock. b child > criminal d Mitzi turned on the inspector like an angry cat. c window > door e Sergeant Fletcher stepped out of the cupboard d daughter > wife where the brushes were kept. e table > lamp f As Charlotte’s goitre grew larger and uglier, she got 6 a throwing b longer c remembered d did very depressed. e than f out g off h that 11 a sticking b shaking c sewing d sharp 7 a So he could ask her to marry him. e forced f unknown g puzzled b Because his wife had seen it on the day after the hold-up. Progress test key 3 7 3 3 7 3 7 3 c That he saw her like a younger sister and he 1 a b c d e f g h 7 3 depended on her judgement. i j d A note about Dora’s funeral arrangements. 2 a 4 b 10 c 1 d 8 e 5 f 2 g 6 h 9 e He had run away from the army. i 3 j 7 f It bit through the flex. 3 a Craddock b Rudi Scherz c Randall Goedler 8 a burglars b butcher’s c quarrel d deceived d Charlotte Blacklock e Patrick f Miss Marple e likely f stare g Letitia Blacklock h Dora Bunner i Mitzi 9 a waved b bravely c playful d cheeks j Phillipa Haymes e fond f edge g wondered h lorry 4 a duty b figure c record d blamed e deal f dare g worth h unfolded i shaky j spilled

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