Original title
Miss Marple
Released
12/26/1984
Origin country
GB
Genre
Crime, Mystery
Production companies
A+E Studios, Agatha Christie, BBC Productions
Status
Ended
Number of seasons
3
Number of episodes
24
Miss Marple, an elderly woman and amateur detective whose sharp mind helps her solve a series of seemingly baffling cases.
When a young blonde is found strangled in the library of Gossington Hall, Dolly Bantry quickly calls in her old friend Miss Marple to help her with some sleuthing.
Miss Marple and Dolly Bantry investigate the millionaire Conway Jefferson and his entourage at a seaside hotel.
The identity of the killer is revealed, as is the dubious motive for the crime.
It's such a nice village - who would have thought it held so many dirty secrets?
The truth about the murders - and the poison-pen letters - gradually emerges, although Miss Marple herself is menaced.
A newspaper advertisement suggests that a murder will occur at an address in an English village. Is it a joke? People assume so - until a man is killed.
The inspector visits a dying millionairess in Scotland, whilst another murder takes place in the village.
A third murder occurs, and Miss Marple is only just able to prevent a fourth.
When the poison which killed Rex is identified as deriving from yew, it is on the household and staff at Yew Tree Lodge that suspicion falls.
To Miss Marple the connection with the nursery rhyme is all too clear, as is who the next victim will be. She sets off at once for Yew Tree Lodge
Faced with two false confessions and numerous suspects after a despised civil magistrate is found shot in the local vicarage, Detective Inspector Slack reluctantly accepts help from Miss Marple.
Both Inspector Slack and Miss Marple put their respective plans into action to unmask Colonel Protheroe's killer. Christopher Hawes reports that he's been hearing voices, but has he perhaps heard something that he shouldn't have?
A young woman is haunted by feelings of fear and dread, and turns to Miss Marple in order to understand what may have happened in her childhood.
Gwenda and Miss Marple are closer to understanding the mystery of a seemingly perfect crime from many years previously.
Miss Marple takes a well earned holiday at Bertram's, a Hotel she stayed in as a child. It seems familiar, but underneath the dainty teas and classy clientele, Bertram's hides a secret.
Canon Pennyfather returns to Bertram's, but struggles to explain his disappearance, could he have been on The Irish Mail Train, robbing it?
Miss Marple receives word that her friend Jason Rafiel has died. In his will, he asks that she attended a coach tour, her aim, to unearth a mystery.
Elizabeth Temple is badly injured, she sends for Jane Marple, and manages to relay one piece of information, 'ask them about Verity.'
A friend of Miss Marple's, Mrs. McGillicuddy, is travelling on the 4.50 from Paddington when she sees a man strangling a woman on a neighbouring train. The police turn up nothing and don't believe her but Miss Marple does. She believes the answer to the mystery lies at nearby Rutherford Hall. She enlists the help of her resourceful, energetic niece Lucy Eyelesbarrow, who investigates Rutherford Hall by working there as a housekeeper.
Chief Inspector Duckham insists that Miss Marple is directly involved in the investigation. Miss Marple makes a startling discovery about the Crackenthorpe's family will. The killer strikes again, this time it's Harold.
While on vacation at a resort hotel in the West Indies, Miss Marple correctly suspects that the apparently natural death of a retired British major is actually the work of a murderer planning yet another killing.
When Miss Marple is invited to the manor house of an old friend, it is not long before a puzzling murder puts her mind to work.
At a reception for a fading film star making a screen comeback, a gushing, pushy fan is poisoned by a drink apparently meant for the actress.
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