In the sleepy little English country village of St Mary Mead, all isn’t as it appears. Under a apparently peaceful external lurks intrigue, guilt, deception – and murder. Colonel Protheroe, regional magistrate and overbearing landowner, may be the most detested man in the community. Everyone, also the vicar, wishes he were inactive. And very soon he’s – shot in the head in the vicar’s personal study. A going to artist confesses to the murder, but occupants saw him elsewhere at that time the Colonel was shot. If he didn’t get it done, who did? Is certainly he safeguarding the wife whom he loves? Faced with a surfeit of suspects, only the inscrutable Miss Marple can unravel the tangled internet of clues. A trap is defined, and Miss Marple’s theory is definitely put to the check when the true killer is usually finally unmasked. This full-cast dramatisation of Agatha Christie’s initial Miss Marple secret superstars June Whitfield as the indomitable amateur detective, with Imelda Staunton and Nigel Davenport.