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While reading
Chapters 1–3
1 Write the names to finish the sentences.
Patrick  Edmund Swettenham  Dora Bunner
Reverend Harmon  Colonel Easterbrook
Miss Blacklock  Phillipa Haymes  Mitzi
a ………………… lives with his mother and is
writing a book.
b ………………… had to deal with a lot of
criminal cases in India.
c ………………… couldn’t go to the ‘murder
party’ because he had to write a speech.
d ………………… told her old school friend
that she needed help in her house.
e ………………… went to mend a fuse so
that the lights would work.
f ………………… was hit across the face
when she was screaming.
g ………………… recognised the dead man
from the Spa Hotel.
h ………………… is a widow and works as an
assistant gardener.
2 Put words on the left with words on the right.
deliver a robbery
pour forward
feed to be surprised
glance chickens
pretend a paper
switch on a coffee
lean a torch
stop the bleeding
act out the lights
shine at the clock
3 Put the underlined letters in the right place to
make a word.
a Everybody thought the emdaetirvestn
………………… in the newspaper was very
strange.
b Miss Blacklock sometimes found Dora
nyngiona ………………… .
c Miss Blacklock had put the central iaegnht
………………… on.
d Mrs Harmon was wearing a hat in an ametptt
………………… to be fashionable.
e Everybody put their hands up glilniylw
………………… .
f Julia went to get a ndegaba …………………
for Miss Blacklock’s ear.
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g The manager of the Spa Hotel eretdge
………………… Craddock warmly.
h Mitzi often invents stories or garsxeetega
………………… things.
Chapters 4–6
4 Are these sentences right (✓) or wrong (✗)?
a Mitzi accused the police of wanting to
torture her. c
b The neighbours told Inspector Craddock
why the crime had happened. c
c Rudi Scherz had never done anything
illegal before. c
d Miss Marple was the first to suggest that
somebody had told Rudi what to do. c
e Mitzi told the police that she had heard
Mrs Haymes talking to somebody in the
garden. c
f Miss Blacklock worked for Randal Goedler
until he died. c
g Randall thought that his sister’s husband
was a criminal. c
h Miss Blacklock had never seen Julia and
Patrick until they went to stay with her. c
5 Underline the wrong word and put the right
one.
a Craddock told Mitzi he was going to take her
to the train station. …………………
b Colonel Easterbrook had a lot of experience
of child psychology. …………………
c Inspector Craddock tried to open a window
of the sitting-room at Little Paddocks.
…………………
d Randal Goedler left all his money to his
daughter in her lifetime. …………………
e Miss Marple admired the table in Miss
Blacklock’s sitting-room. …………………
6 Circle the extra word in the sentences.
a The front door was throwing thrown open
and a young man came in.
b Craddock was forced to spend quite a long
longer time with Colonel Easterbrook.
c Mrs Harmon’s sitting-room reminded
remembered Craddock of his own.
d Rudi made did a mistake in Miss Marple’s bill.
e Miss Marple’s eyes were as bright as than a
child’s.
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f Craddock found a number of keys in out the d Miss Bunner’s ………………… were red
drawer. with excitement.
g Miss Blacklock had to give up off work and e Miss Blacklock had become very
look after her sister. ………………… of Phillipa.
h Craddock was afraid for Miss Marple, who f The flex ran over the ………………… of
that was old and weak. the table.
g Craddock ………………… what Julia had
Chapters 7–9
been doing in the attic.
7 Answer the questions.
h Phillipa Haymes husband was hit by a
a Why did Edmund Swettenham go to see
………………… .
Phillipa Haymes?
……………………………………………… Chapters 10–12
b How did Colonel Easterbrook know that his 10 Put the words in the right place to make
gun had not been used in the hold-up? sentences.
……………………………………………… a had the storm sky Dark been clouds in
c What did Belle Goedler say her husband had gathering
thought of Miss Blacklock? …………………………………………….. .
……………………………………………… b under choker Miss fingers The Blacklock’s
d What did Miss Marple take from Reverend broke pearls nervous of
Harmon to Miss Blacklock? …………………………………………….. .
……………………………………………… c row Inspector sat facing women The in three
e What had really happened to Phillipa a Craddock
Haymes’s husband? …………………………………………….. .
……………………………………………… d on an Mitzi the turned cat inspector like angry
f What did Bunch Harmon’s cat do to the …………………………………………….. .
lamp? e the were stepped the Sergeant kept out
……………………………………………… Fletcher of cupboard where brushes
…………………………………………….. .
8 Find words in Chapters 7–9.
f grew depressed goitre As uglier very
a Thieves who steal in houses. (p. 44)
Charlotte’s larger got and she
…………………
…………………………………………….. .
b A place where you can buy meat. (p. 46)
………………… 11 Put the underlined letters in the right place to
c An argument. (p. 51) ………………… make a word.
d When somebody makes somebody believe a Miss Murgatroyd’s face was blue and her
something that isn’t true. (p. 54) tongue was cignksti …………… out.
………………… b Bunch’s voice was knhgias …………… like a
e Probable. (p. 60) ………………… child’s.
f A way of looking without moving the eyes. c Mrs Swettenham said she was doing some
(p. 62) ………………… wignes …………… at first.
d Craddock’s voice was as cold and hprsa
9 Finish the sentences with the right word.
…………… as a knife.
bravely fond wondered cheeks playful
e Miss Blacklock’s hands cdofre ……………
edge lorry waved
Mitzi’s head into the sink.
a Miss Murgatroyd raised her torch and
f Charlotte bought a house in a place nonknuw
………………… her spoon.
…………… to her.
b Miss Bunner talked about a sad illness
g Miss Marple had been zudelpz ……………
………………… suffered.
about the lamps.
c There was a ………………… look in Belle
Goedler’s eyes.
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1 Are these sentences right (✓) or wrong (✗)? j c Dora Bunner takes an aspirin, goes to bed and
a Most of the neighbours in Chipping Cleghorn dies.
didn’t take the advertisement about the
3 Write the names to finish the sentences.
murder seriously. c
Patrick  Dora Bunner  Randal Goedler 
b All the neighbours talked about the murder as
Craddock  Charlotte Blacklock  Letitia Blacklock 
soon as they arrived at Miss Blacklock’s on the
Phillipa Haymes  Mitzi  Rudi Scherz  Miss Marple
night of the crime. c
a ………………… was sorry that Miss Marple had
c Myrna Harris was going out with Rudi Scherz
gone to stay at the vicarage.
but she didn’t tell the police anything of interest
b ………………… had worked in a hospital in
when they first interviewed her. c
Switzerland.
d Miss Marple didn’t believe that Rudi was
c ………………… had borrowed some money
capable of taking a real gun and shooting
from Letitia.
people. c
d ………………… got very depressed as a young
e Phillipa Haymes explained to Inspector
girl because she was ill.
Craddock who she had been talking to in the
e ………………… had met Emma at a party and
summerhouse. c
had fallen in love with her.
f Miss Hinchcliffe realised that it was impossible
f ………………… hid in a cupboard with Sergeant
for the burglar at Little Paddocks to hold a gun
Fletcher.
and a torch. c
g ………………… gave up her job and took her
g Mrs Goedler was jealous because her husband
sister to Switzerland.
left his money to Miss Blacklock after her own
h ………………… had been surprised when
death. c
Charlotte arrived at her house.
h Miss Blacklock was angry when Craddock said
i ………………… said she had heard Phillipa talking
he wanted to read the letters she had written to
to a man in the summerhouse.
her sister. c
j ………………… hoped that Miss Blacklock might
i Miss Hinchcliffe told Miss Marple that she had
give her some money for her son’s education.
no idea why her friend Amy had been killed. c
j Miss Marple persuaded Mitzi to pretend that 4 Finish the sentences with the right words.
she had seen Miss Blacklock with the gun. c record dare blamed deal figure unfolded
spilled shaky worth duty
2 What happened first? Number the sentences 1–10.
a Mrs Easterbrook thought it was her husband’s
a c Miss Marple tells the police how Rudi had
……………… to go to the ‘murder’ party.
changed a cheque of hers.
b The ……………… fell to the ground after the
b c Miss Blacklock tries to kill Mitzi but Miss Marple
third shot.
stops her.
c Rudi Scherz had a police ……………… in
c c Neighbours arrive at Little Paddocks and
Switzerland.
comment on the roses and the central heating.
d Miss Marple thought that Rudi would be
d c Somebody hears Miss Murgatroyd say she
……………… for someone else’s crime.
remembers who was missing from the room
e Randall Goedler needed money for a business
and they kill her.
……………… .
e c Miss Blacklock tells Craddock about Randal
f Mrs Easterbrook said she would never
Goedler’s money.
……………… to touch her husband’s gun.
f c Colonel Easterbrook takes a man’s mask off
g Patrick thought it was ……………… dying to eat
and says he is dead.
Mitzi’s cake.
g c Craddock goes to Scotland to talk to Belle
h Miss Marple ……………… the letter and read it.
Goedler.
i Miss Marple’s writing was ……………… and not
h c The woman pretending to be Julia admits she’s
easy to read.
really Emma.
j Miss Blacklock ……………… water on the lamp
i c Inspector Craddock visits Little Paddocks for
and everything fused.
the first time.
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