The Tuesday Night Club

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• Leerjaar 5

The Tuesday Night Club

The Characters

Raymond West: Writer.

Jane (Miss) Marple: Aunt of Raymond.

Joyce Lempriere: Artist

Sir Henry Clithering: Comissioner of Scotland Yard

Dr. Pender: Elderly clergyman of the parish

Mr. Petherick: a solicitor.

Their Murder solving abilities

Writer: Knows about psychology and imagination. Insight into human nature.

Solicitor: Can sift impartially through the evidence, logical method of arriving at the truth.

Artist: Woman’s intuition; creative and seeing things others won’t.

Clergyman: Hears things and sees a side of the human character that is a sealed book to the outside world.

Detective: Has years of experience. 

Miss Marple: By living in a village for all these years and gaining insight into humans.

The Tuesday Night Club

Finding out who is best at solving murders.

Every week one member introduces a mystery that the others need to solve. 

Miss Marple

Seems the character with the least interest or ability to solve murders. She is just a simple woman from a small town. 

Joyce didn't think she'd be interested in playing/participating. 

The Murder

Several characters are introduced, but suspicions are immediately on the victim's husband (Mr. Jones). 

A note was found with an incriminating message saying how much money he might get after his wife was dead. 

The Murder

Mrs. Jones died after a meal with her husband and a companion named Miss Clark. 

They ate lobster, which is a type of shellfish. Botulism is a rare but serious illness caused by a toxin that attacks the body's nerves. It can be found in foods that have not been prepared well. Initial suspicion was that the lobster was bad. 

However, it is found that Mrs. Jones died of arsenic poisoning. Something often found in rat poison. 

The Murder

Since all 3 people ate the food and only one died, part of the mystery is what dish was poisoned with the arsenic. 

Miss Clark, refuses to eat a bowl of cornflower (mean to ease stomach pains) because she is on a diet. 

The Suspects

Pender: Thinks the husband did it, but doesn’t know how.

Joyce: Thinks the companion did it because she was in love with Mr. Jones.

Petherick: Thinks the husband did it, and Miss Clark sheltered him or worked with him.

Raymond: Thinks the doctor’s daughter did it. 

The Murderer

It ended up being the maid who had an affair with Mr. Jones and got pregnant with his child. He convinced her to add the poison to the dessert so he could be with her.

Miss Clark didn't eat the dessert because of her diet and Mr. Jones scraped off the sprinkles of arsenic off of his. 

Eventually Gladys confessed as she was dying and her child had died in childbirth. Mr. Jones had left her for another woman. 

Nothing is what it seems

First impressions: both in the murder mystery as well as about Miss Marple. 

Love: Gladys commits the murder for love and Mr. Jones was cheating on his wife. 

Betrayal: Mr. Jones and Gladys betrayed Mrs. Jones's trust and in turn Mr. Jones betrayed Gladys, which led to her confessing to the murder betraying Mr. Jones again.