SPOILERS!!!! SPOILERS!!! SPOILERS!!! "I loved unwisely" - she fell in love with Lance at the vacation camp, when he was courting her only in order to use her to commit the first murder (let alone the fact that he was married). "I died for a song" - as I later added, the song was only one reason: she was murdered because she had been an innocent accomplice in the murder, and could identify Lance as the one who gave her the poison, but he placed a clothspin on her nose to hint at the third person in the children's song "Sing a song of sixpence", so as to suggest that the murders were connected with the blackbird mine swindle. "Which was smoke" - the blackbird connection was a smokescreen - it had nothing to do with the murder. "I was granted justice" - Miss Marple gets involved because she is angry that Gladys was murdered, and even more that her nose was pinched by a clothspin - she sees it as stealing the last of her dignity - and she wants to find the truth and grant her justice.
@Tommy_A_Jones, how does Bess Sedgwick fit? I can see the loving unwisely and the smoke, and even the justice (MM insisting on not accepting her sacrifice to save her daughter), but the song?
Actually, while writing it I realized that Bess Sedgwick fits better than I thought, but not all the way.
Thanks, Tali! Here's my go: My poor dear Papa was swiftly killed, My Mama's promise I couldn't fulfill, When I heard I could get some money, My, was I thrilled!
I'm fishing in the dark, but three questions: Was the victim male or female? Was the money to be obtained by blackmail? Did the "Victim" survive or was he/she killed?
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Actually, while writing it I realized that Bess Sedgwick fits better than I thought, but not all the way.
My poor dear Papa was swiftly killed,
My Mama's promise I couldn't fulfill,
When I heard I could get some money,
My, was I thrilled!
Ann Meredith?
Mary Gerrard?