Agatha Christie's elderly sleuth, Miss Marple, always seem to thinks better when she can bounce ideas off a partner, and in this made-for-TV mystery her nephew plays assistant sleuth.
The fabulously wealthy Mr. Rafiel (Frank Gatliff) offers Jane Marple (Joan Hickson) an assignment from beyond the grave. To earn Rafiel’s bequest of 20,000 pounds, she and a friend must join a bus tour of English manor homes and, over the course of the trip, investigate the unsolved slaying of Verity Hunt, the fiancee of Rafiel’s estranged son, Michael (Bruce Payne). Although Michael was never prosecuted for the crime, tongues have been wagging suspiciously for the past eight y...
Released:
1987
Rated:
NR
Length:
102 mins