An old Pal of Miss Marple's claims she saw a murder committed on a train. Or did she, as Inspector Slack thinks, dream it?
Miss Marple is too old and infirm to dart around the countryside snooping out bodies so she enlists the helpful Lucy Eyelesbarrow to scout around.
One of my favorite moments in TV is when Lucy Eyelesbarrow (Jill Meager) locates the decaying body.
Maurice Denham plays a crotchety old codger and titular head of clan Crackenthorpe (what names!--a by-product of Christie producing so many books, I expect).
After the body is found the story settles into a more typical mystery. And the ending is more psychologically satisfactory all around than the adaptation in the later "Marple" series.
As usual, David Horowitz's Inspector Slack is a delight. And while Jill Meager isn't particularly pretty (why should she be?) she's a delight from start to finish and her character holds the piece, like the household, together.
Miss Marple is too old and infirm to dart around the countryside snooping out bodies so she enlists the helpful Lucy Eyelesbarrow to scout around.
One of my favorite moments in TV is when Lucy Eyelesbarrow (Jill Meager) locates the decaying body.
Maurice Denham plays a crotchety old codger and titular head of clan Crackenthorpe (what names!--a by-product of Christie producing so many books, I expect).
After the body is found the story settles into a more typical mystery. And the ending is more psychologically satisfactory all around than the adaptation in the later "Marple" series.
As usual, David Horowitz's Inspector Slack is a delight. And while Jill Meager isn't particularly pretty (why should she be?) she's a delight from start to finish and her character holds the piece, like the household, together.