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Miss Marple investigates the downfall of an optimistic young couple who ignored the warnings of a gypsy and built a dream home on allegedly cursed land.

While consoling her recently widowed friend Marjorie, Miss Marple crosses paths with the handsome Mike Rogers, a young worker with a penchant for daydreaming about his future, more specifically about the perfect house he would live in, built on the eerily beautiful Gypsy's Acre. When Mike meets and marries the ethereal American heiress Ellie Goodman, his luck changes, and with the help of his old friend and rising architect Robbie Hayman, Mike's dream house is finally built, despite the repeated warnings from Esther Lee, a local gypsy, that Gypsy's Acre is cursed ground. Miss Marple, however, senses that danger really is near at hand, especially when frightening incidents plague Mike and Ellie, culminating in an injury that leads to the arrival of Ellie's mysterious Swedish friend, Greta. But when Ellie herself meets a tragic end, Miss Marple and Mike are faced with a chilling reality: that, perhaps, supernatural nightmares truly can exist, and that - as William Blake once wrote - some are born to endless night...—shanty_sleuth

Miss Marple is in Kingston Bishop staying with her recently widowed friend Marjorie Philpot. There she meets a handsome man, Mike Rogers. Mike hasn't done much with his life so far - he was working as a chauffeur when they first meet and later, as a barman. If Mike had his way he'd buy a piece of property that's on the market, known as Gypsy's Acre, and build a new house on the site. He's skint of course and it all seems impossible until he meets Ellie, who has also fallen in love with the property. Ellie is a rich heiress and they soon fall in love. They are warned however that the land is cursed and once into their new house, it becomes apparent that someone is trying to scare them off. When someone is killed in a apparent riding accident, Miss Marple believes it to be murder.—garykmcd

Mike Rogers is a working class man, drifting between lowly-paid jobs. Then he meets Ellie, a wealthy American oil heiress, and his fortunes change. They fall in love and get married. Ellie then buys Gypsy's Acre, a large estate in the country. However, legend has it that the grounds are cursed, a belief reinforced by Mrs Lee, the local gypsy. She harangues any potential buyer of Gypsy's Acre, forespelling all manner of ill fortune for those that live there. After moving in, Mike and Ellie get death threats. One day, Ellie dies after being thrown from her horse. It looks like the curse has claimed another victim.—grantss