of editing the diaries while Miss Marple ponders the similarity between Miss Greenshaw and a Mr Naysmith who liked to give false impressions for fun, sometimes leading to trouble. Louise Oxley is employed to work on the diaries and begins work at Miss Greenshaw's house. The next day she is asked to invite the old lady's estranged nephew, Nathaniel Fletcher, to lunch, but is told not to inform Miss Cresswell. When told of this, Raymond suspects a reconciliation and a change in the will may ensue. The day after, on arriving at the house, Louise is struck by the resemblance between Alfred and a portrait of Miss Greenshaw's grandfather. She is working on the diaries at midday in her first-floor room when she hears a scream from the garden, and sees Miss Greenshaw staggering towards the house with an arrow embedded in her breast. When Louise tries to go down to help Miss Greenshaw as she collapses into the room below her, she finds that she is locked in. A few windows along, Miss Cresswell shouts that she is in the same predicament. A police constable who arrives a few minutes later frees the women from their respective rooms; he is followed by a police sergeant and then by Nathaniel Fletcher, who arrives for his lunch appointment. That evening, Inspector Welch interviews Raymond about the will he witnessed. Miss Marple guesses correctly that, contrary to what Raymond and Horace Bindler were told, Miss Cresswell was not the beneficiary to the will – Miss Greenshaw was playing her along, behaviour just like that of Mr Naysmith. The recipient of Miss Greenshaw's money is Alfred, who is probably a grandson of one of Miss Greenshaw's grandfather's illegitimate children, hence the resemblance in looks. Alfred is a member of an archery club but has a cast-iron alibi for the time of the murder. Miss Marple has a hypothesis: that the Miss Greenshaw that Louise met over her two days was actually Miss Cresswell in disguise. Miss Greenshaw was unconscious at the time that she was "shot" and the dying person on the lawn that Louise saw was Miss Cresswell with a false arrow. The first "policeman" who arrived at the house was really Nathaniel Fletcher, Miss Cresswell's accomplice. He claimed the companion had been locked in her room from which he freed her, whereas in reality she had been free to impersonate her