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Hollaby is found murdered on a gold course, Tommy and Tuppence look into it, could the mild mannered Doris Evans be guilty?

I'll try and explain it like this, if you have ever watched Murder, she wrote, you will be aware of those episodes where Lansbury wanted a break, and would much narrate the story, this feels just the same.

The story is itself mildly interesting, though hardly one you'd call a great, but the realisation is so dull, it ambles by at a very slow pace, with Tuppence as disinterested in the story as the viewer will be.

There are good points, lovely production values, a good performance from Dennis Lill, and of course Warwick and Annis are excellent.

Annis looks glorious throughout, that fabulous red hat she wears at the start would later appear in another Agatha Christie adaptation, David Suchet's Death on The Nile, on the head of Rosalie, played by Zoe Telford.

It's perhaps my least favourite episode of the series, but it's worth a look, 5/10.

The best thing that can be said about this episode is that Tuppence looks fetching in various headwear.

It is such a problematic episode because it is told in flashbacks which makes it so unexciting.

Tommy and Tuppence discuss the dead body of Captain Antony Cecil found at the Sunningdale golf course. He had played golf with business associates and seen talking to a tall woman at a distance.

Two weeks later, Doris Evans has been arrested for her murder. Well she is not tall. She claims she met Cecil previously and he invited her for lunch on the day of his death.

They went for a walk somewhere and he behaved oddly, even threatening her with a gun. She wrestled with him and ran off. This explains why her hair was found in the dead man's clothing.

The problem is Tommy & Tuppence are never actively involved in the case. They just put the pieces together as they recount the mystery.