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“ “The trouble is,” said Miss Marple, “that people are greedy. Some people. That’s so often, you know, how things start. You don’t start with murder, with wanting to do murder, or even thinking of it. You just start by being greedy, by wanting more than you’re going to have.””

“ “Would you like to hear, Miss Eyelesbarrow, what my godfather said about her…? He described her as just the finest detective God ever made—natural genius cultivated in a suitable soil. He told me never to despise the…elderly ladies. He said they could usually tell you what might have happened, what ought to have happened, and even what actually did happen! And,” he said, “they can tell you why it happened.”

“…By the way, you ought to have turned that over to the police at once, you know—or rather Miss Eyelesbarrow should have done so.” Miss Marple shook her head…then added firmly: “I thought it much wiser to find the body first.” Inspector Craddock was tickled. “You don’t seem ever to have had any doubts but that it would be found?” “I was sure it would. Lucy Eyelesbarrow is a most efficient and intelligent person.””