Mrs Carruthers

In the Miss Marple short story The Tuesday Night Club, Mrs Carruthers is an acquaintance of Jane Marple and likely to be a fellow resident of St. Mary Mead.

Miss Marple described what happened to Mrs Carruthers as an example of a prosaic event which no one could explain. Mrs Carruthers had apparently purchased two gills of picked shrimp from Elliot's, the fishmonger. When she returned home, the shrimp were not with her. She went back to the shop and other shops she had been to along the way but the goods were never seen again.