The Blue Geranium

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Summary

Genre: Murder Mystery

Format: Short Story

Location: England

Recurring Characters: Miss Jane Marple

Synopsis

Mrs Pritchard, has arranged to see a psychic who warns her there is evil and danger in her house. Two days later she receives a letter from the psychic; she must beware the full moon: blue primrose means warning, blue hollyhock is danger and blue geranium is death! When the warnings begin to appear poor Mrs Pritchard is terrified – could there be truth in the psychic’s message?

Christie’s fascination with things ‘other-worldly’ come to the fore in this short story first published in December 1929 in The Christmas Storyteller. It appears in The Thirteen Problems.

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