It was adapted by BBC in 1986 with Joan Hickson in the role of Miss Marple and again by ITV in 2004 with Geraldine Mc Ewan as Miss Marple. The book is narrated in first person by the vicar, Leonard Clement. It's up to Miss Marple to make sense of this story and find out who really did it. His unfaithful wife and her artist lover both confess to the murder, to the great confusion of Inspector Slack. Then, Protheroe is found murdered in the vicar's study.

His daughter wishes he would do a good thing and die, and even the vicar observes that killing him would be a service to the townsfolk. Everyone, that is, except Colonel Protheroe, the most disliked man in the village. In the above-mentioned St Mary Mead, there is a general climate of harmony and good-will and everyone gets along.

She is Christie's second most famous but personal favorite detective. She is notable for her ability to draw parallels between murder mysteries and ordinary village incidents. This is the first novel (but not the first book) to feature Miss Marple, the harmless old lady who lives at the idyllic village of St Mary Mead and just happens to constantly bump into murders. But she fools them.Detective novel by Agatha Christie. The villains think her advanced age makes dotty. Hickson was 80 when she did this Marple series for the BB, this particular episode. Hickson comes pretty close to what I think Agatha Christie wanted in Jane It's what throws off both Scotland Yard as Miss Marple. What the two who planned it also planned to use Jane Marple as an alibi witness as they know she's outside tending her garden at the time planned.īoth make sure Joan Hickson sees them. Reverend Paul Eddington finds Lang slumped over his (Eddington's) desk at the his guy expects his family to address him as Colonel and they do. Robert Lang is a nasty version of that satirical figureįrom the United Kingdom between the wars Colonel Blimp.

The murder victim in this case is a very nasty sort of man who has the titleĬolonel from his army days. You would think so with Miss Marple solving all Like Cabot Cove in Maine, USA, St.Mary Mead in Great Britain seems to be the murder capital of that country.

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