![]() ![]() ![]() Basil is well known for dating a young platinum blonde girl, called Dinah Lee. Miss Marple states to Mrs Bantry, that a good suspect in the Bantrys' neighbour, Basil Blake, the son of an old school friend of Mrs Bantry's, who is mutually disliked intensely by Colonel Bantry. Nobody in the household recognises the body, though. Soon, the police arrive, the senior officers being Detective Inspector Slack and the Chief Constable of the County, Colonel Terence Melchett. ![]() The girl is also wearing a considerable amount of make-up. It is a very young girl with platinum blonde hair, with lipstick and painted nails like a gash, wearing an old but glittery, satin, cheap, black and white evening dress of rather poor quality, with silver sandals. Miss Marple is picked up by Mrs Bantry and her chauffeur, Muswell, and taken to Gossington Hall. Suddenly, the maid, Mary, dashes in, tearful and breathless, and informs Dolly that there is a body in the library, before running out again.Ĭolonel Arthur Bantry then goes downstairs and learns from his butler, Lorrimer, that there is indeed a body in the library, sees it, calls Police Constable Billy Palk, and then Mrs Bantry calls her friend, Miss Marple (revealing that the victim has been strangled). The story starts with Mrs Dolly Bantry waking up from a pleasant dream, and noticing that the maid has not been in yet. ![]()
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He got a lot of bad press over the decades - but that was before we found out he was already one of us. Big Brother is no longer simply a set of shadowy, avuncular, half-smiling eyes on living-room posters and street-side billboards he now reserves a virtual space at all our family gatherings, and tells us what to do and buy long before we had the inclination to do or buy anything. 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