Can Miss Marple succeed where the police have failed?įilmed on location in the West Indies. When a woman is poisoned during the village fête at Gossington Hall, the police deduce the intended victim was film star, Marina Gregg. A bizarre riddle for Miss Marple and a deadly family intrigue. Only Miss Marple sees the connection and that the next victim will be an old acquaintance - unless she can uncover the murderer in time.Ī murder witnessed from a train, a missing body and an eccentric old patriarch. There she finds a curious ménage - an extended family and a reformatory for young criminals - where violence seems just below the surface.Īn old nursery rhyme comes true in a grotesque double murder. To reassure an old friend, Miss Marple agrees to go down to Stonygates, a rambling country mansion. But when the lights go out at the appointed hour, no one thinks it's a joke any more. Who is the strange young blonde lying strangled in the library of Gossington Hall? Fortunately for the Bantrys, Miss Marple is their neighbour.Įveryone in Chipping Cleghorn is intrigued by the advertisement predicting a murder at Little Paddocks. When the hated Colonel Protheroe is found murdered in the sleepy village of St Mary Mead, Miss Marple is puzzled why so many people want to confess.Ī nasty case of poison-pen letters brings Miss Marple to the East Anglian village of Lymston.
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