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SUBJECT CODE: ENG121
Department of Commerce
CHRIST ( Deemed to be University)
Bangalore-560029
2022-2025
The short story that I have chosen is “Miss Marple Tells a Story”, which was written by the
English detective novelist and playwright Agatha Christie, who is renowned for her
compelling detective fiction surrounding the themes of crime, murder, and mystery. This prose
has been taken in relation to the 5th unit from our textbook- “Crime”. The story mentioned
above is an interesting one as it urges the reader to think and rethink about the most obvious
traces that the one who commits crime leaves after the deed has been done. In this story, we see
that our protagonist- Miss Jane Marple- is narrating the murder of Mrs. Rhodes to her niece
Joyce, a painter, and her nephew Raymond, a best-selling author in "Miss Marple Tells a
Story."She typically resolves her cases by comparing the criminal's conduct to those of the
people from the village that she is acquainted with.
Her solicitor, Mr. Petherick, and a young man named Mr. Rhodes pay her a visit one evening.
Mr. Rhodes is suspected of killing his wife, who was stabbed in a hotel in the nearby Bar
Chester. Sir Malcolm Olde, K.C. was hired to defend Mr. Rhodes, but they weren't happy with
his deduction that Mrs Rhodes could have committed a suicide, so they turned to Miss Marple
for a second view.
They tell her the following details about what happened on March 8th night. The Crown Hotel
was where Mr. and Mrs. Rhodes were lodging. Their rooms were connected by a connecting
door. After dinner, she went to sleep in her room while he continued to write a book in the room
next to hers. When he went to check on his wife, he discovered her in bed, having been stabbed
through the heart with a stiletto blade that bore no signs of tampering. She had been lifeless for at
least an hour. The second door in Mrs. Rhodes's room goes to the hallway via a tiny hallway
with a restroom, but it was secured on the inside and locked and bolted. Only one window was
present, and it was locked. Rhodes claimed that a chambermaid bringing hot water bottles to his
wife was the only person to have entered his room. Only Mr. Rhodes and Mary Hill, the
chambermaid, had access to Mrs. Rhodes' room. The dimwitted chambermaid brought the hot
water bottle to Mrs. Rhodes and then left. She had no excuse for attacking the visitor.
Miss Marple inquires as to if there are any women staying at the hotel alone and discovers two:
Miss Carruthers, a spinster of around forty who dropped her g's, and Mrs. Granby, an Anglo-
Indian widow. No evidence links either of them to the crime.
There are four options available. Mrs. Rhodes either killed herself or was murdered by her
husband, the chambermaid, or a stranger that no one saw enter or leave.
Miss Marple concludes that Miss Carruthers committed the crime because she dropped her
"gs," which is a sign of an older person. As a result, Miss Marple was aware that she was
acting and going overboard. Later, Miss Carruthers, who was committing the murder under a
fictitious name, admitted to it. Mrs. Rhodes had run over her daughter and the woman had gone
insane. Miss Marple thus demonstrates that things are frequently not what they seem to be.
In the well-written introduction that introduces us to Crime and its origin, we see that Crime has
been assumed to be committed in the name of karma. Whether or not this statement holds true is
left to the interpreter of any criminal case they might come across while trying to analyse the
motive of the crime. We also notice how one accident can lead to a cascading series of criminal
activities when Justice is not served. This is also why I truly stand by the quote- “Justice delayed
is justice denied”. In this story, had Mrs Rhodes been apprehended right away for running over
‘Miss Carruther’s’ daughter, ‘Miss Carruther’ would not have to take matters in her own hands
and try to hold Mrs Rhodes accountable for action. The irony here is that the latter committed
a crime in order to receive justice for another crime.

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