Strangulation
The curtain goes up on Murder She Said. Or in this case, it is a blind, dislodged by a murderer. Thus murderous passion reveals what was previously hidden and begins the show. An unknown woman is strangled by an unseen man in the railway car across the tracks. We see it as though it were on a screen, framed, from the perspective of Miss Marple, the protagonist. It is a true moving picture; the frame pans as the train carriage passes us by.
In a similar confusion of two orders of simulation, Marple will not be believed when she reports the murder, because she reads murder mysteries. It is as though the fictitious world of the imagined can contaminate the real.
But it can't. Can it?
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