Characters

? Miss Jane Marple

? Inspector Dermot Eric Craddock

? Letitia Blacklock, lady of the house, in her 60s? Dora Bunner, her elderly fluttery childhood friend, usually known byher nickname, "Bunny"

? Patrick and Julia Simmons, Miss Blacklock's young cousins (who callher "Aunt" due to the difference in ages)

? Mitzi/Hanna, Miss Blacklock's foreign housekeeper and cook, a youngrefugee from Middle Europe.

? Phillipa Haymes, a young widowed paying guest/gardener with a youngson at boarding school

? Colonel Archie Easterbrook, blustery old colonel just returned from In-dia

? Laura Easterbrook, his considerably younger, glamorous wife? Mrs Swettenham, elderly lady who dotes on her son, Edmund? Edmund Swettenham, cynical young writer

? Miss Hinchcliffe, physically fit, tough lady farmer? Miss Amy Murgatroyd, Miss Hinchcliffe's sweet- dispositioned, gigglycompanion

? Belle Goedler, dying widow of Letitia's former wealthy employer? Julian Harmon, the vicar

? Diana "Bunch" Harmon, the vicar's wife

? Tiglath Pileser, the vicarage cat

? Rudi Scherz, a young man of Swiss extraction, the receptionist at a localspa

? Myrna Harris, girlfriend of the latter, waitress at local spa? Chief Constable George Rydesdale, Craddock's superior? Detective Sergeant Fletcher, assisting Craddock? Constable Legg