by Agatha Christie dramatised in two parts by T.R. Bowen, starring Joan Hickson as Miss Marple
The Home Counties golf and commuter belt.... late 1940s. When Rex Fortescue dies suddenly in his City office, Inspector Neele is called in to investigate. His only clue is a handful of rye in the dead man's pocket.
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.
(R)
(Ceefax subtitles)
