Deceptively mild amateur sleuth, Jane Marple is being treated to a short holiday in London by her niece.

Staying at the dignified, unostentatious Bertram's Hotel, tucked away in a back street of busy Mayfair - here guests can indulge in comforts of a bygone age.

But Miss Marple begins to feel uneasy. Something sinister lurks beneath the polished veneer.

Why are so many major crimes associated in some way with the hotel or somehow implicate the eminently respectable people staying there?

Published in 1965, Agatha Christie's whodunit stars June Whitfield.

Dramatised in five-parts by Michael Bakewell.

Miss Marple ...... June Whitfield
Bess Sedgwick ...... Sian Phillips
Canon Pennyfather ...... Maurice Denham
Miss Gorringe ...... Jillie Meers
Michael Gorman ...... John Hartley
Mr Humfries ...... Geoffrey Whitehead
Colonel Luscombe ...... Geoffrey Bayldon
Raymond West ...... Andrew Branch
Michael Gorman ...... John Hartley
Lady Selina Hazy ...... Margaret Courtenay
Mrs Carpenter ...... Patience Tomlinson
Elvira Blake ...... Tracy Wiles
Henry ...... Garard Green
Ladislaus Malinwoski ...... Gavin Muir
Rose ...... Jane Whittenshaw
Bridget ...... Sarah Plowright
Mr Bollard ...... David Collings

Director: Enyd Williams

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1995. Show less