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Elspeth McGillicuddy is not given to hallucinations. Until she witnesses a murder at Paddington Station. But did she? No victim, no suspect, no other witnesses. In fact no one believes it really happened at all. Except her friend Miss Jane Marple, and she's returning to the scene of the crime to discover just exactly what Mrs. McGillicuddy saw.
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Promoted on both sides of the Atlantic as Agatha Christie's 50th book and published in 1950 by William Collins, "A Murder is Announced" is a staple of crime fiction and is often considered the best of all the Miss Marple novels. The villagers of Chipping Cleghorn, including Jane Marple who is staying nearby, are agog with curiosity over an advertisement in the local gazette which reads: A murder is announced and will take place on Friday October...
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The murder of Colonel Protheroe -- shot through the head -- is a shock to everyone in St Mary Mead, though hardly an unpleasant one. Now even the vicar, who had declared that killing the detested Protheroe would be 'doing the world at large a favour,' is a suspect -- the Colonel has been dispatched in the clergyman's study, no less. But the picturesque English village of St Mary Mead is overpopulated with suspects. There is of course the faithless...
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Jane Marple takes a holiday at Bertram's Hotel in London for a much-needed rest and to relive the happy memories of sojourns there during her youth. The hotel is famous for fully preserving its Edwardian atmosphere -- from the proper staff to the elderly guests who frequent the tearoom. The décor is well appointed, and the service is impeccable. But with her keen powers of observation, Miss Marple quickly realizes all is not as it seems. The hotel...
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On a quiet morning in St. Mary Mead, a maid wakes Colonel Bantry and his wife to inform them that a young woman is dead in their library. The victim is dressed in a tawdry dress, with dyed hair and heavy make-up. Mrs. Bantry knows that as long as the murder remains unsolved her husband will be the target of suspicion and gossip, so she asks Miss Marple for help. The victim is 18-year-old Ruby Keene, a dancer at the Majestic Hotel, whose body is identified...
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A&E Home Video
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c2001
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A Caribbean mystery (1989): A tropical breeze blows an ill-wind upon the Golden Palm Hotel and when guest start turning up dead, Miss Marple begins gathering suspects.
The mirror crack'd from side to side (1992): Excitement abounds at the little village of St. Mary Mead when an American movie star arrives to shoot a new film. But when a poisoned cocktail revises the script, Miss Marple must quickly uncover hidden jealousies before the assailant acts...
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A&E Home Video
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c2001
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The moving finger (1985): Poison-pen letters cause two deaths in Lymston. Can Miss Marple uncover the killer before there is another?
At Bertram's Hotel (1987): A stuffy and very proper London hotel is booked solid with sinister secrets and deadly doings.
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A&E Home Video
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c2001
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Sleeping murder: Giles and Gwenda Reed move into a dream house only to be haunted by visions of a dead body. To put the nightmares to rest, Miss Marple will have to awaken a killer.
4:50 from Paddington: A murder witnessed in a few brief seconds aboard a passing train lures Miss Marple into a web of family intrigue.
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A&E Home Video
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c2001
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Murder at the vicarage: Colonel Prothero has lots of enemies in the village of St. Mary's Mead and when he's found dead there are plenty of suspects, some with alibis and some with confessions.
Nemesis: Not only does Miss Marple have to solve a crime, but she has to discover what it is. It begins with a cryptic letter from a recently deceased friend asking her to right an injustice, but giving no details--no who, what, when or where. Her only starting...
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Lymstock is a town with more than its share of shameful secrets- a town where even a sudden outbreak of anonymous hate mail causes only a minor stir. But all that changes when one of the recipients, Mrs. Symmington, commits suicide. Her final note says "I can't go on," but Miss Marple questions the coroner's verdict of suicide. Soon nobody is sure of anyone- as secrets stop being shameful and start becoming deadly.--From back cover.
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The tiny Caribbean island of St. Honoré is a tropical paradise. But for Miss Marple, enjoying a well-earned rest from her busy life in the village of St. Mary Mead, it is a place where nothing ever seems to happen. That is, until old Major Palgrave tells her the strange story of a suspected double murderer. Just as Major Palgrave is about to show the murderer's picture to her, he looks over her shoulder, appears startled and, and changes the subject....
13) Sleeping murder
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Miss Marple turns ghost hunter and uncovers shocking evidence of a perfect crime.
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A handful of grain is found in the pocket of a murdered businessman! Let us explain: Rex Fortescue, king of a financial empire, was sipping tea in his 'counting house' office when he suffered an agonising and sudden death. On later inspection, the pockets of the deceased were found to contain rye grain. What is that all about? But it was another incident, this time in the parlour at his home, which confirmed Jane Marple's suspicion that here she was...
15) Murder she said
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Warner Home Video
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c2006
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Comfily ensconced in her railway carriarge, Miss Marple sees a strangulation aboard a passing train, then follows a trail of baffling clues to a manor house inhabited by a quarrelsome family.
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"Marina Gregg is a famous, temperamental, much-loved movie star who has come to settle down in the village of St. Mary Mead. Heather Badcock is an ordinary and annoying woman. One minute, silly Heather had been babbling on at her movie idol, the glamorous Marina Gregg. The next, Heather suffered a massive seizure, poisoned by a deadly cocktail. It seems likely that the cocktail was intended for the beautiful actress. But while the police fumble to...
17) Nemesis
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Miss Marple receives a postcard from the recently deceased Mr. Jason Rafiel, a millionaire whom she had met during a Caribbean holiday and who had been her greatest ally in solving a murder. He has left instructions for investigating an unspecified crime after his death. If she succeeds in solving it, she will inherit £20,000. Mr. Rafiel hasn't provided her with any details, but he has left her instructions to go on a vacation he has planned for...
18) Murder most foul
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Warner Home Video
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c2006
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The Cosgood Players are knocking them dead, literally! Luckily, the players have a detective in the cast, their newest thespian, the redoubtable Miss Marple. Miss Marple takes her final bow in this film.
20) Murder ahoy!
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Warner Home Video
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c2006
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English
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Miss Marple navigates treacherous waters to catch a maritime killer! And that someone will kill to keep the plot secret.
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