The author has spent a considerable amount of time introducing Mary McGuire in the first chapter. Therefore, I believe Mary will have some relevance to this murder mystery. Unfortunately, at this time there is not enough key information for the reader to make a prediction related to what Mary’s actions will be toward the discovery of who murdered Stella Reed. The author did provide some insight into Mary’s character, “As an old maid she didn’t meddle or give much stake in local gossip, the last thing Mary was concerned with was someone else’s love life” (unknown 5). Therefore, Mary does not appear to feed into the small town gossip, nor does she appear to be the meddling type.
Surprisingly, I did get a sense in this first chapter that