夜雨聆风Why? Because, if the original lamp were examined, it would show justhow Patrick had managed to “make the lights go out.” How had he man-aged? Miss Marple looked earnestly at the lamp in front of her. The flexran along the table over the edge and was plugged into the wall. Therewas a small pear-shaped switch halfway along the flex. None of it sugges-ted anything to Miss Marple because she knew very little about electricity.
Where was the shepherdess lamp? she wondered. In the “spare room’
or thrown away, or—where was it Dora Bunner had come upon PatrickSimmons with a feather and an oily cup? In the shrubbery? Miss Marplemade up her mind to put all these points to Inspector Craddock.
At the very beginning Miss Blacklock had leaped to the conclusion thather nephew Patrick had been behind the insertion of that advertisement.
