Agatha Christie: Marple

Miss Marple is faced with her greatest challenge yet when she receives instructions from an old friend, the recently deceased Mr Rafiel, to investigate a ‘possible crime’. But there’s a catch - she has not been told what the crime is. Instead, she is booked onto a mystery coach tour to gather clues. Miss Marple takes her nephew Raymond West to accompany her on the tour as Mr Rafiel warns that danger may threaten. It begins to dawn on them both that all the passengers have been placed there for a reason, as their lives interconnect in various ways. Even more significantly, everyone is connected to a young girl, Verity Hunt, who went missing during the war. They also realise that every destination on the tour is significant and start to piece together information about Verity, finding out that she fled from a nun’s sanctuary in the dead of night to be with her German lover, Mr Rafiel’s son Michael, and was never seen again. Is it mere coincidence that Verity also lodged with Sydney Lumley before he met his young wife Margaret? Margaret’s resemblance zu Verity shocks the elderly Mr Raeburn, ex butler to the caustic lady of the manor Amanda Dalrymple, who threw out Verity for ‘stealing’ and is now travelling with an obsequious lawyer, Derek Turnbull. With the help of young detective Colin Hards, Miss Marple and Raymond piece together the secrets of the past to fulfil a promise to her dear old friend.

Georgina Barrow (Ruth Wilson), Raymond West (Richard E. Grant).

L-R: Miss Jane Marple (Geraldine McEwan), Schwester Agnes (Anne Reid).