Joan Hickson
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English
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"Would you like to see a picture of a murderer?" So asks a stranger of Miss Jane Marple while she is vacationing on luxurious St. Honore. Before she has a chance to answer, the mystery man vanishes, only to be found dead the following day. Now Miss Marple is asking the questions: What happened to the curious photo: Why is the hotelier prone to nightmares? Why doesn't the most-talked-about guest, a reclusive millionaire, ever leave his room? Any why...
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Elspeth McGillicuddy was not a woman usually given to hallucinations. But when she witnesses what appears to be a woman being strangled on a train and no-one else sees it, no-one reports it and no corpse is found she turns to her old friend Jane Marple to help solve the puzzle. Marple asks her highly efficient and intelligent young acquaintance, Lucy Eyelesbarrow to infiltrate the Crackenthorpe family, who seem to be at the heart of the mystery, and...
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English
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A blinding snowstorm and a homicidal maniac traps a small party of friends in an isolated estate. Out of this deceptively simple set-up, Agatha Christie fashioned one of her most ingenious puzzlers, which, in turn, would provide the basis for The Mousetrap, the longest-running play in history. From this classic title novella to the deliciously clever gems on its tail (solved to perfection by Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple), this rare collection...
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (approximately 936 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Return to post-war England for mystery and a cup of tea. The consummate prim and proper crime-fighting spinster, Miss Jane Marple sets down her knitting needles to unwind the most ingenious crimes. As she travels from city to countryside and even the Bahamas, murders, missing bodies and haunted dreams have a habit of falling accross Miss Marple's path.
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[2015]
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3 videodiscs (450 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Never one to sit idle, Miss Marple finds her luxurious Barbados vacation a bit dull until Major Palgrave's murder turns it into A Caribbean Mystery. Her London stay seems a bit too perfect until she discovers something sinister behind the Edwardian façade At Bertram's Hotel. How can Miss Marple resist visiting the seaside villa of a young couple plagued by terrifying memories of a Sleeping Murder? And how will she solve an unspecified crime in Nemesis,...
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[2015]
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3 videodiscs (454 min.) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
They Do It with Mirrors: Miss Marple must solve a crime in a rambling country mansion being used for the rehabilitation of young criminals.
A Pocketful of Rye: An old nursery rhyme comes true in a grotesque double murder. Only Miss Marple sees the connection and that the next victim will be an old acquaintance-- unless she can uncover the murderer in time.
4.50 from Paddington: A deadly family intrigue as a murder is witnessed from a passing train.
The...
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Return to post-war England for mystery and a cup of tea. The consummate prim and proper crime-fighting spinster, Miss Jane Marple sets down her knitting needles to unwind the most ingenious crimes. As she travels from city to countryside and even the Bahamas, murders, missing bodies and haunted dreams have a habit of falling accross Miss Marple's path.
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[2014]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 527 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Joan Hickson, the actress Agatha Christie herself wanted for the role, stars as the shrewd sleuth in four thrilling whodunits: The Murder at the Vicarage, The Moving Finger, The Body in the Library, and A Murder is Announced. Watch as Miss Marple puts her perceptive powers to good use and gets to the bottom of even the most complex crimes in this beloved series.
The murder in the vicarage: Faced with two false confessions and numerous suspects after...
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 212 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Return to post-war England for mystery and a cup of tea. The consummate prim and proper crime-fighting spinster, Miss Jane Marple sets down her knitting needles to unwind the most ingenious crimes. As she travels from city to countryside and even the Bahamas, murders, missing bodies and haunted dreams have a habit of falling accross Miss Marple's path.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 202 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Return to post-war England for mystery and a cup of tea. The consummate prim and proper crime-fighting spinster, Miss Jane Marple sets down her knitting needles to unwind the most ingenious crimes. As she travels from city to countryside and even the Bahamas, murders, missing bodies and haunted dreams have a habit of falling accross Miss Marple's path.
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[2022]
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English
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In this new collection of Agatha Christie short stories, witness the dark side of love - crimes of passion, games of the heart, and deadly affairs. This pulse-pounding compendium features beloved detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, master of charades Parker Pyne, the enigmatic Harley Quin, and the adventurous Tommy and Tuppence, all on the ready to solve a tantalizing mystery.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 211 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Return to post-war England for mystery and a cup of tea. The consummate prim and proper crime-fighting spinster, Miss Jane Marple sets down her knitting needles to unwind the most ingenious crimes. As she travels from city to countryside and even the Bahamas, murders, missing bodies and haunted dreams have a habit of falling accross Miss Marple's path.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 204 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Return to post-war England for mystery and a cup of tea. The consummate prim and proper crime-fighting spinster, Miss Jane Marple sets down her knitting needles to unwind the most ingenious crimes. As she travels from city to countryside and even the Bahamas, murders, missing bodies and haunted dreams have a habit of falling accross Miss Marple's path.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
9 videodiscs (approximately 1,431 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Volume 1: "The murder at the vicarage": Faced with two false confessions and numerous suspects after a despised civil magistrate is found shot in the local vicarage, Detective Inspector Slack reluctantly accepts help from Miss Marple. "The moving finger": The normally friendly village of Lymston is plagued by vile anonymous letters. When a mother of three takes her own life, following such a letter, Ms. Marple is not at all convinced things are as...
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[2003]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (188 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert.
Language
English
Description
During a round of golf on a cliff-top course in Wales, Bobby Jones discovers a man lying gravely injured on the rocks below. His last words, "Why didn't they ask Evans?," leads Bobby and his friend on a quest to find out what happened to the man.
