Agatha Christie DVD collection
Saturday 26th January sees the Daily Mail’s current Agatha Christie DVD collection continuing with six superb Miss Marple stoires starting with
The Murder At The Vicarage.
Starring Joan Hickson and Paul Eddington, it tells the story of a despised magistrate who is found shot to death in the library of the local vicarage. His wife and her lover, a portrait painter living on the church grounds, both confess to the crime. However Miss Marple’s keen powers of observation clear both of them of the crime, meanwhile other suspects abound. These Include the murdered man’s daughter, who posed for the artist, a neurotic cleric who’s embezzled church funds, the local doctor, an ex-convict who poached on the magistrate’s land, and a missionary’s enigmatic widow who argued with him the day before he was killed. An exasperated Inspector Slack must reluctantly accept help from the analytical Miss Marple in order to solve the crime.
Sleeping Murder
This story features A young woman, who recalls seeing a murdered womans body as a small child. She is determined to find out the source of this memory. However, the killer, who believed they were safe after eighteen years has other ideas and is prepared to kill to cover up the past.
Miss Marple at Bertram’s Hotel
In this story Miss Marple finds her holiday, at the very posh Bertram’s Hotel. taking a sinister turn when a hotel maid is found strangled. Miss Marple can’t help but investigate and is soon being assisted by Jane Cooper, a younger version of herself to solve the crime
Miss Marple: Nemesis
Upon his death, financier John Rafiel asks Miss Marple to solve a murder. The only problem is that the murder may or may not have taken place, and the victim is unknown. All that he has given her is two tickets on the Daffodil Tour Company’s Mystery Tour. Miss Marple finds that she needs all her powers of deduction in order to solve the case
Miss Marple – A Caribbean Mystery
Whilst On holiday in Barbados, Miss Marple finds herself getting a little bored however, things become a bit more interesting when one of the guests is found dead. This is initially put down to natural causes until one of the maids finds medication belonging to another guest in the late major’s room and Miss Marple can’t help but investigate.
Miss Marple – They Do It with Mirrors
Whilst visiting friends whose estate has been turned into an institute of sorts for young offenders. Miss Marple finds herself having to solve a murder when the proprietor is found shot at the typewriter in his room. The residents are an odd assortment of characters and Miss Marple finds that there are no shortage of suspects.
I knew there must be a catch somewhere)