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* [[Adaptation Distillation]]: The 2004 version.
* [[Asshole Victim]]: Colonel Protheroe.
* [[Aw, Look -- They Really Do Love Each Other]]: At the start of the novel, Len's so irritated with Griselda, he contemplates writing to the archbishop that the Church should bring back celibacy into the clergy. At the end of the novel...
* [[Black Widow]]: Anne Protheroe.
* [[Characterization Marches On]]: Miss Marple is at times a rather bossy, nosy, unpleasant woman throughout the course of the book. Having realized that she wanted to write more stories with Marple as the detective, Christie toned down on some of these characteristics for later mysteries.
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* [[Gossipy Hens]]: Several of them. [[Miss Marple]] humorously admits she is one at one point.
* [[Happily Married]]: Leonard and Griselda Clement, oddly enough.
* [[Hopeless Suitor]]: Lettice is in love with Lawrence Redding, who's in love with [[Big Screwed
* [[Little Old Lady Investigates]]
* [[Luke, I Am Your Father]]: Mrs Lestrange is Lettice's mother.
* [[May
* [[Slap Slap Kiss]]: Replace "Slap slap" (he is a vicar after all) with "frequent feelings of irritation" and you have the Clements' marriage.
* [[Sticky Fingers]]: Curate Hawes.
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