Geraldine McEwan does her best in this really, entertaining murder mystery that is the best so far, after seeing "Murder at the Vicarage" and the "The Body in the Library", though I have yet to see the fourth and final episode to this Marple series, "4.50 From Paddington".
In this episode, people living in a town called Chipping Cleghorn, are informed by an advertisement in the newspapers that reads: "A murder is announced and will take place on Friday, October 29th, at Little Paddocks, at 6:30 p.m..." This intrigues the locals, and they make their way to one Letitia Blacklock's house, since she lives at Little Paddocks. The residents of Cleghorn including Blacklock wait in the sitting room for the worst to occur, which is very dramatic, until the lights suddenly go off and several shots ring in the air, and a body of an individual is found dead on the floor. The dead man wasn't one of the guests at Blacklock's house, and the gun found near him, makes the police suspect that he committed suicide. But Miss Marple as usual has other ideas.
This time my reckoning of the criminal was correct unlike my wrong guesses of possible culprits in murder in previous Agatha Christie episodes. I have observed a pattern in these murder series. In Agatha Christie's world, the real guilty party is the one that doesn't look suspicious, and seeing Blacklock being unsuspected made me suspect her. In the end, I was proved right.
This was a thoroughly entertaining episode and I recommend fans of Agatha Christie to watch this film!
In this episode, people living in a town called Chipping Cleghorn, are informed by an advertisement in the newspapers that reads: "A murder is announced and will take place on Friday, October 29th, at Little Paddocks, at 6:30 p.m..." This intrigues the locals, and they make their way to one Letitia Blacklock's house, since she lives at Little Paddocks. The residents of Cleghorn including Blacklock wait in the sitting room for the worst to occur, which is very dramatic, until the lights suddenly go off and several shots ring in the air, and a body of an individual is found dead on the floor. The dead man wasn't one of the guests at Blacklock's house, and the gun found near him, makes the police suspect that he committed suicide. But Miss Marple as usual has other ideas.
This time my reckoning of the criminal was correct unlike my wrong guesses of possible culprits in murder in previous Agatha Christie episodes. I have observed a pattern in these murder series. In Agatha Christie's world, the real guilty party is the one that doesn't look suspicious, and seeing Blacklock being unsuspected made me suspect her. In the end, I was proved right.
This was a thoroughly entertaining episode and I recommend fans of Agatha Christie to watch this film!