I haven't the faintest notion how anyone could submit a positive review for this dreadful adaptation. The book I only remember vaguely but I do recall enjoying it. But, unlike the other BBC adaptations featuring Geraldine McEwan, the excellent A Murder Is Announced is the first to spring to mind, this one is horrendously overacted by all concerned (every cliched character we expect to find in a small English village drama is front and centre) with Miss Marple playing only a minor role, more often than not seen here knitting and subtly assembling information. And there's a certain unsavoury element about one of the two love affairs that underscore the story, one involving a grown man and girl who seems to be a schoolgirl when the story begins but struts around by the end decked out as if she's ready for married life.
Very cheaply put together (the car and motorbike sequences have some of the phoniest back projection I've ever seen in a modern production) and easily the weakest of the Marple series featuring McEwan.
Very cheaply put together (the car and motorbike sequences have some of the phoniest back projection I've ever seen in a modern production) and easily the weakest of the Marple series featuring McEwan.