The ordered tranquility of life in St Mary Mead is shattered by a mysterious discovery. Miss Marple's investigations lead her to a seaside hotel where some rather unusual people are staying.
Gerry Burton and his sister Joanna arrive in the village of Lymston in East Anglia for him to convalesce, but the villagers' warm welcome is not all that it seems.
In the late 1940s, in the small village of Chipping Cleghorn, an announcement appears in the local paper outlining the details of a future murder. When Miss Marple pays a visit to the village, she instinctively disagrees with the villagers that it is all just a bit of harmless fun.
No one seems surprised when Colonel Protheroe is found murdered in the local vicarage. Red herrings abound, especially when his widow and her lover both suddenly confess to the murder.
The dream home turns into a nightmare for a young couple, when the young wife sees a strangled woman in the hall.
Miss Marple suspects Lady Bess Sedgwick of evil deeds amongst the layers of corruption at Bertram's Hotel.
Joan Hickson
Actor
Roy Boulting
Director
Guy Slater
Producer
Agatha Christie
Writer
Julia Jones
