Starring Joan Hickson as Agatha Christie 's gentle and elderly amateur sleuth.
A childhood friend asks Miss
Marple to visit Stonygates, home to an eccentric family as well as being a reformatory for young criminals. It's a bizarre place where violence is always just below the surface. She is faced with an unusual problem when shots are fired in a darkened room but the murder victim is discovered elsewhere.
She is soon on the trail of the murderer, but cannot work out how the deed was done, until
Inspector Slack's secret hobby gives her a vital clue.
Producer George Gatlaccio Director Norman Stone