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**** It doesn't mean that the diaries didn't say he was murdered in the parlor - it only means that he will be found in the bed where he's supposed to be when everything's over. Actually, given how the police are not too brilliant in Agatha Christie's books, to put it mildly, I see no problem at all with suggestion that they just missed the significance of this detail.
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** Vera finding three unbroken figurines makes sense when you consider that the killer was accounting for Blore's death (as Vera and Lombard had definitely seen his body), but not Armstrong's (as he didn't know whether or not they had discovered his body yet).
*** I would say that the killer did figure out that they had found the body (otherwise it would be unclear why Vera shot Lombard, if there still was Armstrong to blame everything on). The real reason seems to be much simpler: even if Lombard (as Vera must think at that moment) removed the fourth figurine after he had killed Armstrong and installed some trap to kill Blore, she's still pretty damn sure that he did not enter the house since they all left it (and at that moment there were three figurines left). So any messing with the figurines would have immediately alerted her to the presence of someone else - and remember, at this point Vera is still relatively sane and armed with a revolver.
*** It also serves as a clue that Vera and Lombard ''[[ForWantOfANail aren't the only two remaining]]''.
*** As a clue for whom, exactly? U.N. Owen giving Vera a last chance to realize something's wrong? Or you mean like a Doylist kind of clue just for us readers?
*** It can be either / or, really; a clue for the characters (only they're too frazzled and frightened to pick up on it) ''and'' a clue for the readers (Dame Agatha essentially daring us to think a bit harder about why, if there are only two living suspects on the island, might there be ''three'' statuettes).
*** Probably the latter then, since, as said before, with the apparent death of everyone but Vera and with seemingly no chance for anyone to have entered the house to remove the third figurine, it's rather, on the contrary, a "correct" number of figurines (two or one) that would/should have alarmed Vera...
*** Vera isn't alarmed because they all assume Armstrong took the seventh figure himself and disposed of it before going into hiding. Vera has dialogue where she says that she believes Armstrong took it and got rid of it to convince the other three that he was dead, and believes the "red herring" has to do with him NOT being dead. With that in mind, three is correct. They find Armstrong isn't the killer, then she shoots Lombard thinking HE'S the killer, and notes before she goes upstairs they're behind the times and breaks two herself. If Wargrave had disposes of them before Vera arrived, she'd immediately realize that she wasn't the last one left alive on the island, thus Wargrave leaves them and Vera breaks them for him.
*** I would say that the killer did figure out that they had found the body (otherwise it would be unclear why Vera shot Lombard, if there still was Armstrong to blame everything on). The real reason seems to be much simpler: even if Lombard (as Vera must think at that moment) removed the fourth figurine after he had killed Armstrong and installed some trap to kill Blore, she's still pretty damn sure that he did not enter the house since they all left it (and at that moment there were three figurines left). So any messing with the figurines would have immediately alerted her to the presence of someone else - and remember, at this point Vera is still relatively sane and armed with a revolver.
*** It also serves as a clue that Vera and Lombard ''[[ForWantOfANail aren't the only two remaining]]''.
*** As a clue for whom, exactly? U.N. Owen giving Vera a last chance to realize something's wrong? Or you mean like a Doylist kind of clue just for us readers?
*** It can be either / or, really; a clue for the characters (only they're too frazzled and frightened to pick up on it) ''and'' a clue for the readers (Dame Agatha essentially daring us to think a bit harder about why, if there are only two living suspects on the island, might there be ''three'' statuettes).
*** Probably the latter then, since, as said before, with the apparent death of everyone but Vera and with seemingly no chance for anyone to have entered the house to remove the third figurine, it's rather, on the contrary, a "correct" number of figurines (two or one) that would/should have alarmed Vera...
*** Vera isn't alarmed because they all assume Armstrong took the seventh figure himself and disposed of it before going into hiding. Vera has dialogue where she says that she believes Armstrong took it and got rid of it to convince the other three that he was dead, and believes the "red herring" has to do with him NOT being dead. With that in mind, three is correct. They find Armstrong isn't the killer, then she shoots Lombard thinking HE'S the killer, and notes before she goes upstairs they're behind the times and breaks two herself. If Wargrave had disposes of them before Vera arrived, she'd immediately realize that she wasn't the last one left alive on the island, thus Wargrave leaves them and Vera breaks them for him.
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* What exactly did Fred Narracott do to deserve being the man who found the 10 dead bodies?
** I doubt he would have found ten. he'd come across the first body and then run back to his boat.
*** Maybe he didn't find all of them (especially those who had died far from the house), but he almost surely encountered more than one corpse, because on discovering the first one he probably tried to locate someone alive to ask/tell about the dead body. Well, at least he probably wasn't alone, as the policemen mention "the other men" alongside him.
** Also, the bodies of Marston and Mrs. Rogers would have been starting to stink by the time Narracott got there.
*** Not to mention that Rogers (hacked up with a hatchet) and Blore (brains literally bashed in / stabbed with a carving knife) would have had very gory deaths, as well. I'm pretty sure that in the book, Blore was simply left lying in plain sight with brains leaking out all over the terrace, since neither Lombard or Vera were in any state (or had any time) to put his body in his room.
* Hugo had to break up with his psycho girlfriend knowing (or at least suspecting) she had no problems killing a child to get her way. The poor guy probably feared for his life, wondering how she would react to a rejection: we can hardly blame him for ghosting her as soon as the inquest ended - or for trying to drown his sorrows in alcohol.
** And how did he react on learning that he himself unwittingly set U.N. Owen on her track? He said point blank that he still cared about her.
** I doubt he would have found ten. he'd come across the first body and then run back to his boat.
*** Maybe he didn't find all of them (especially those who had died far from the house), but he almost surely encountered more than one corpse, because on discovering the first one he probably tried to locate someone alive to ask/tell about the dead body. Well, at least he probably wasn't alone, as the policemen mention "the other men" alongside him.
** Also, the bodies of Marston and Mrs. Rogers would have been starting to stink by the time Narracott got there.
*** Not to mention that Rogers (hacked up with a hatchet) and Blore (brains literally bashed in / stabbed with a carving knife) would have had very gory deaths, as well. I'm pretty sure that in the book, Blore was simply left lying in plain sight with brains leaking out all over the terrace, since neither Lombard or Vera were in any state (or had any time) to put his body in his room.
* Hugo had to break up with his psycho girlfriend knowing (or at least suspecting) she had no problems killing a child to get her way. The poor guy probably feared for his life, wondering how she would react to a rejection: we can hardly blame him for ghosting her as soon as the inquest ended - or for trying to drown his sorrows in alcohol.
** And how did he react on learning that he himself unwittingly set U.N. Owen on her track? He said point blank that he still cared about her.
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* What exactly did Fred Narracott do to deserve being the man who found the 10 dead bodies?
** I doubt he would have found ten. he'd come across the first body and then run back to his boat.
*** Maybe he didn't find all of them (especially those who had died far from the house), but he almost surely encountered more than one corpse, because on discovering the first one he probably tried to locate someone alive to ask/tell about the dead body. Well, at least he probably wasn't alone, as the policemen mention "the other men" alongside him.
**bodies? Also, the bodies of Marston and Mrs. Rogers would have been starting to stink by the time Narracott got there.
***there. Not to mention that Rogers (hacked up with a hatchet) and Blore (brains literally bashed in / stabbed with a carving knife) would have had very gory deaths, as well. I'm pretty sure that in the book, Blore was simply left lying in plain sight with brains leaking out all over the terrace, since neither Lombard or Vera were in any state (or had any time) to put his body in his room.
* Hugo had to break up with his psycho girlfriend knowing (or at least suspecting) she had no problems killing a child to get her way. The poor guy probably feared for his life, wondering how she would react to a rejection: we can hardly blame him for ghosting her as soon as the inquest ended - or for trying to drown his sorrows inalcohol.
**alcohol. And how did he react on learning that he himself unwittingly set U.N. Owen on her track? He said point blank that he still cared about her.
** I doubt he would have found ten. he'd come across the first body and then run back to his boat.
*** Maybe he didn't find all of them (especially those who had died far from the house), but he almost surely encountered more than one corpse, because on discovering the first one he probably tried to locate someone alive to ask/tell about the dead body. Well, at least he probably wasn't alone, as the policemen mention "the other men" alongside him.
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* Hugo had to break up with his psycho girlfriend knowing (or at least suspecting) she had no problems killing a child to get her way. The poor guy probably feared for his life, wondering how she would react to a rejection: we can hardly blame him for ghosting her as soon as the inquest ended - or for trying to drown his sorrows in
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* In addition to the three clues acknowledged by the killer, there are additional reasons not mentioned that would lead an investigator to the killer. The investigators consider that U.N. Owen must be one of the ten dead people. The murderer, who is terminally ill should come under suspicion as one willing to commit suicide.
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* In addition to the three clues acknowledged by the killer, there are additional reasons not mentioned that would lead an investigator to the killer. The investigators consider that U.N. Owen must be one of the ten dead people. The [[TerminallyIllCriminal murderer, who is terminally ill ill]] should come under suspicion as one willing to commit suicide.
