miss marple body in the library joan hickson

Something might have happened after that but I couldn’t be bothered to find out. A few reasons – primarily an attempt to get through a rather turgid affair of a mystery where nothing seemed to happen between 10 and 50% of the way through (can’t do page numbers with a Kindle!). After a prolific start to the month, I’ve managed to finish one book in the last week, namely this one. Wow, almost a fortnight since the last review.

But how on earth –and why – did that body end up in the library? Soon a second body is discovered and the focus of the investigation becomes the Majestic Hotel in Danemouth, and a tale of adopted young women and a possibly lost inheritance. Luckily Dolly’s old friend, Jane Marple, has a few ideas… No apparent connection is made between the location and the body and nobody recognises her. Miss Marple: The Body in the Library is directed by Silvio Narizzano, runs 154 minutes, is made by British Broadcasting Corporation, A+E Networks and Seven Network, released by BBC, is written by T R Bowen, based on Agatha Christie’s novel, is shot by John Walker, is produced by Guy Slater, and is scored by Ken Howard and Alan Blaikley.Gossington Hall, home of Dolly and Colonel Arthur Bantry, is disturbed one morning when the body of a young, platinum blonde girl is discovered in, yes, the library. The director Silvio Narizzano cast me as tennis coach Raymond Starr and we filmed on location in Bournemouth.’

Jess Conrad recalls: ‘My first acting job after playing Joseph for many years was in Miss Marple: The Body in the Library in 1984. Moray Watson, Valentine Dyall, Frederick Jaeger, Trudie Styler, Anthony Smee, David Horovitch as Detective Inspector Slack, Karin Foley, Raymond Francis, Ian Brimble, John Moffatt, Ciaran Madden, Keith Drinkel, Jess Conrad, John Bardon and Arthur Bostrom. The production is plush, the handling is sleek and the yarn, more or less faithfully based on Agatha Christie’s novel, with just a few minor changes, is satisfying, with Hickson a brilliant Miss Marple.Īlso in the cast are Andrew Cruickshank. Here the spinster sleuth Miss Jane Marple (Hickson) investigates in the quaint, quiet fictional English village of St Mary Mead when a young woman is found dead in the Gossington Hall library of retired Colonel Bantry (Moray Watson) and Mrs Bantry (Gwen Watford). Miss Marple: The Body in the Library **** (1984, Joan Hickson, Gwen Watford, Moray Watson, Valentine Dyall, Jess Conrad) – Classic Movie Review 9607ĭirector Silvio Narizzano’s 1984 three-episode TV mini-series Miss Marple: The Body in the Library stars Joan Hickson, who takes on her first case as the BBC’s Miss Marple in a UK TV series of films that ran to 12 films until The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side in 1992.

Miss marple body in the library joan hickson