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I'm plugging for Inspector Craddock, don't you? The only one even nearly forceful enough.

:) Yes, I like him and the other candidates are very unappealing to me. But I think in later novels he still appears unmarried. ??

I don't remember them very well. Perhaps Miss Marple was unsuccessful in her matchmaking, though that seems hardly likely.

I just found that this was discussed in a GR thread for quite at length. :)
Somebody quoted from "The mirror craked.." proving that Craddock was unmarried & apparently in some AC notebook she sided with Cedric... others say she deluberately wrote a kind of "choose yr own adventure" ending.
So there we are..... :)

Neither do i ...

:)

Why does she need to marry?

A very valid comment, Sandra. Indeed, she's waaaay better than either Cedric or the other chap and would be wasted on them both! :)

I’m team Craddock, imagine both of them solving mysteries!

To get a nice, short name like "Smith"?

Could be. :)

#teamcraddock

:D

According to her notebooks, when she first planned this book Christie intended for Lucy to marry Cedric. But she often changed things as she wrote, so that doesn't mean she felt the same way at the end of the book. I think the fact that she left it open-ended may mean she didn't know herself by the time it was done, and Miss Marple's statement made a nice way to end the story.

Yes, it figures. :)

Melindam wrote: "Yes, it figures. :)"

The more I read of Christie, the more ambiguites I notice. Why, she never explained her own disappearance!

To me, the end seemed to indicate she would marry the detective

She was fond of the children, and missed them dearly at some point, so that sealed the deal for me.

Makes sense :)