The Blue Geranium

The Blue Geranium by Agatha Christie is a story about the death of a woman who was threatened by the occurrences in her future as told by a disappeared fortune teller. The beginning of the story starts off at a dinner party scenario with the Bantry couple, Miss Marple, and Sir Henry. At the dinner table, Mr. Bantry tells a story about his friend's wife, Mary Pritchard's death. Mrs. Pritchard was a sick and "dreadful" woman who was very demanding of her husband, so when she asked him to move houses because she was getting "unnatural" feelings he denied her request. Mrs. Pritchard had also hired a fortuned teller through her nurse, Nurse Copling, who had given her a letter that threatened Mrs. Pritchard's life. Mr. Pritchard however, laughed this off as nonsense. As time passed, the threats in the letter soon became true and finally Mrs. Pritchard was found dead in her room. It turns out that Nurse Copling had disguised herself as the fortune teller and killed Mrs. Pritchard by shocking her to death.