![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But they are forced reluctantly to accept help from the spinster sleuth, who finds out the sad truth, as always. With a couple of what turn out to be false confessions by the magistrate’s wife and her portrait painter lover, and with a plethora of ripe and likely suspects to follow, Chief Inspector Slack (David Horovitch) and Detective Sergeant Lake (Ian Brimble) are naturally perplexed. Another body in the library after The Body in the Library Not a good place to go if you want to live to a ripe old age. Paul Eddington co-stars as the Reverend Leonard Clement, the middle-aged minister at the vicarage, where a magistrate is found shot to death in the library. With its story of burglary, impersonation, adultery and murder, it was the Christmas Day treat on BBC tv in 1986. ![]() Despite the novel being published in 1930, the TV movie unfolds in the mid-Fifties. Bookwise, however, it is the first novel to feature Miss Marple. Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage *** (1986, Joan Hickson, Paul Eddington, Cheryl Campbell, Robert Lang, Polly Adams) – Classic Movie Review 9625ĭirector Julian Aymes’s 1986 TV movie Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage again stars Joan Hickson, who takes on her fifth case as the BBC’s Miss Marple, based on the novel by Agatha Christie. ![]()
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