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Outline of Play
Colonel Protheroe is the most unpopular man in the village. Everyone has a motive for wishing him dead, although the most obvious suspects are Mrs Protheroe and her lover Lawrence Redding.
Lawrence does indeed confess to the murder, but it is obviously a false confession, and he admits it was made to shield Anne Protheroe.
Amidst the heightening tension fostered by anonymous letters and bogus telephone calls, moves the gentle figure of Miss Marple, whose old-maidish exterior conceals a very shrewd brain.
She has the uncanny knack of knowing most people's secrets and it is she who is ultimately responsible for solving the mystery.
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