Progress is slow until the vicar's wife calls up an expert of her own, Miss Marple. Scotland Yard sends an investigator, who comes to the conclusion that the letter-writer/murderer is a middle-aged woman who must be one of the prominent citizens of Lymstock. Partridge asks Agnes over to tea the next afternoon, but Agnes never arrives, and her body is discovered in the under-stairs cupboard the next day by Mr Symmington's step-daughter, Megan. The Burtons' maid, Partridge, receives a call from the Symmington's maidservant, Agnes, who seems distraught over something. The police begin to search for the anonymous letter writer. An inquest is held and the verdict of suicide is brought in. Her body is discovered with the letter, a glass containing potassium cyanide and a torn suicide note which reads "I can't go on". Things flare up when Mrs Symmington, the wife of the local solicitor, commits suicide upon receiving a letter stating that her second child was born out of wedlock. They quickly discover that these letters have been recently circulating around town, indiscriminate and completely inaccurate. They are just getting to know the town's strange cast of characters when an anonymous letter arrives, rudely accusing the two of being lovers, not siblings. Jerry and Joanna Burton, brother and sister from London society, take a country house in idyllic Lymstock so that Jerry can rest from injuries received in a wartime plane crash.
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