Murder at the Vicarage

Clement finds Slack interrogating Miss Cram, who denies moving the suitcase and declares it’s only old ladies’ gossip about Dr. Stone. Clement sides with Miss Marple, who he says is usually correct. Slack responds that he questioned Archer, who has an alibi.

Clement visits Miss Hartnell, who tells him Mrs. Lestrange was not in her house because she not only knocked on Mrs. Lestrange’s door, she took the opportunity to look in all the windows and didn’t see anybody inside. The next woman he speaks to, Miss Wetherby, tells him that on the day of the murder, she saw a certain lady whom she won’t name, but she implies it was Mrs. Lestrange, on the village road, headed toward the Vicarage just before the murder. The third woman, Mrs. Price Ridley, says her maid heard a man’s sneeze come from the Vicarage at the time of the murder. Clement then goes to Haydock’s, and they discuss the idea that Stone is a thief. Haydock admits he knew Protheroe when he was younger and admits that he’s been trying to shield Mrs. Lestrange, as she is an old friend and because she is dying.