by Agatha Christie, dramatised in three parts by T.R. Bowen
with Joan Hickson as Miss Marple, Gwen Watford as Mrs Bantry, Andrew Cruickshank as Conway Jefferson, Moray Watson as Col. Bantry, Valentine Dyall as Lorrimer, Frederick Jaeger as Col. Melchett, David Horovitch as Det. Insp. Slack, Anthony Smee as Basil Blake, Ciaran Madden as Adelaide Jefferson, Jess Conrad as Raymond Starr, Trudie Styler as Josie Turner

Early summer, sometime in the late 40s... St Mary Mead - a very ordinary, very English village in the Home Counties... One morning the Bantrys wake up to find that everything is suddenly far from ordinary... They call their friend, the elderly spinster Jane Marple, to help unravel the disturbingly novelettish mystery in which they find themselves entangled.
The investigation takes them to a seaside hotel where some rather unusual people are staying...
(R)
(Ceefax subtitles)