Agatha Christie's Miss Marple - Seasons 1-6 - 12-DVD Boxset ( The Murder at the Vicarage / 4:50 from Paddington / The Body in the Library / A Murder Is Announced / Sleeping Murder / By the Pricking of My Thumbs / The Moving Finger / The Sittaford Mystery / Towards Zero / Nemesis ) ( At Bertram's Hotel / Ordeal by Innocence / A Pocket Full of Rye / Murder Is Easy / Why Didn't They Ask Evans? / They Do It with Mirrors / The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side / The Secret of Chimneys / The Blue Geranium / The Pale Horse )

Agatha Christie's Miss Marple - Seasons 1-6 - 12-DVD Boxset (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: The Murder at the Vicarage / 4:50 from Paddington / The Body in the Library / A Murder Is Announced / Sleeping Murder / By the Pricking of My Thumbs / The Moving Finger / The Sittaford Mystery / Towards Zero / Nemesis
Alternate Title: At Bertram's Hotel / Ordeal by Innocence / A Pocket Full of Rye / Murder Is Easy / Why Didn't They Ask Evans? / They Do It with Mirrors / The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side / The Secret of Chimneys / The Blue Geranium / The Pale Horse
Language Selections:
Dutch ( Subtitles )
English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )

Product Origin/Format:
Netherlands ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
2070 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Box Set
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2004 - 2010 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Charlie Palmer
Andy Wilson

Written By:
Agatha Christie
Stephen Churchett

Actors:
Geraldine McEwan ..... Miss Marple
Julia McKenzie ..... Miss Marple
Stephen Churchett ..... Coroner (4 episodes, 2004-2013)
Greg Bennett ..... Police Constable / ... (4 episodes, 2004-2010)
Isabella Parriss ..... Marie Thérèse / ... (2 episodes, 2007-2010)
Joanna Lumley ..... Dolly Bantry (2 episodes, 2004-2010)
Herbert Lom ..... Ausgustin Dufosse / ... (2 episodes, 2004-2007)
John Owens ..... Photographer (1 episode, 2004)
Griff Rhys Jones ..... Dr. David Quimper (1 episode, 2004)
Ian Richardson ..... Conway Jefferson (1 episode, 2004)
Christian Coulson ..... Edmund Swettenham (1 episode, 2005)
James D'Arcy ..... Jerry Burton (1 episode, 2006)
Timothy Dalton ..... Clive Trevelyan (1 episode, 2006)
Julian Wadham ..... Kelvin Halliday (1 episode, 2006)

Synopsis:

An elderly spinster living in the village of St Mary Mead helps her friends and relatives solve mysterious murders.
List of Episodes:
The Murder at the Vicarage (2004)
4:50 from Paddington (2004)
The Body in the Library (2004)
A Murder Is Announced (2005)
Sleeping Murder (2006)
By the Pricking of My Thumbs (2006)
The Moving Finger (2006)
The Sittaford Mystery (2006)
Towards Zero (2007)
Nemesis (1987)
At Bertram's Hotel (2007)
Ordeal by Innocence (2007)
Marple: A Pocket Full of Rye (2008)
Marple: Murder Is Easy (2008)
Agatha Christie Marple: Why Didn't They Ask Evans? (2009)
Agatha Christie Marple: They Do It with Mirrors (2009)
The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side (2010)
The Secret of Chimneys (2010)
The Blue Geranium (2010)
The Pale Horse (2010)

The Murder at the Vicarage (2004)
Many of those in the village of St. Mary Mead look with distaste at Colonel Protheroe. He fancies himself more important than others do and tends to treat people as inferiors. His wife Anne is younger than he, and seems ill-suited to the marriage. Plus she may be having an affair with a young painter using the vicarage shed as a workshop. When what may have been a failed attempt at the colonel's life injures amateur sleuth Jane Marple she has a front row seat to watch the comings and goings from her front yard, where she is laid up with a cast on her ankle. Across the road in the vicarage the colonel meets his death and Jane has witnessed all the suspects as they went in and out of the building around the time of the murder. It's up to her to piece it all together and solve the mystery.

4:50 from Paddington (2004)
Elspeth McGillicuddy, an old friend of Jane Marple, comes to meet Jane from Scotland. While travelling by train, Elspeth sees a murder occurring in a train on a parallel track. Since she could not have seen the victim or the killer and she is an old woman, the police ignore her. Only Jane believes her, but can she prove anything when there is not even a dead body present?

The Body in the Library (2004)
A young woman's corpse is dumped in the library of Gossington Hall, home of Jane Marple's friend Dolly Bantry and her husband Arthur. Pompous Chief Constable Melchett suspects a connection with Basil Blake, an arty young man who lives locally but Blake is dismissive when Melchett visits him. Then Superintendent Harper rings from the coastal town of Danemouth. Ruby Keane, a young girl employed as a dancer at the Majestic Hotel there, has gone missing, and her cousin Josie Turner identifies the corpse as Ruby's. Ruby is in favour with millionaire Conway Jefferson, whose own son and daughter were killed in a wartime air raid, and he wants to adopt her. His son-in-law Mark Gaskell, and daughter-in-law Adelaide react variously to the news. Miss Marple is convinced that the solution to Ruby's murder may be found at the hotel and she and Dolly book into a suite to investigate. There is no shortage of suspects, not only family members but the handsome Raymond Starr, another of the hotel's dance professionals, and George Bartlett, the last person to see Ruby before her disappearance.

A Murder Is Announced (2005)
The residents of Chipping Cleghorn are astonished to read an advert in the local newspaper that a murder will take place the following Friday at 7:30 p.m. at Little Paddocks, the home of Letitia Blacklock. A group gathers and at that precise moment, the lights go out and a young hotel employee, Rudi Schertz, is shot. The police assume he had placed the ad and planned it as a robbery, but for Miss Marple it's not that obvious. She believes that the killer was likely one of the people in the room. When two of those present the evening of the murder are subsequently killed, it is left to Miss Marple to unravel a complex series of relationships and false identities, all centered around Randall Goedler a wealthy industrialist who had died 10 years earlier.

Sleeping Murder (2006)
Miss Jane Marple is asked to help Gwenda, a wealthy young woman who has bought a house on the English coast, only to experience disturbing visions. Thanks to Miss Marple's investigations, Gwenda discovers that, instead of spending all her life in India, she had lived in the house as a child. The visions are actually flashes of memory - and she realizes she witnessed the murder of a beautiful woman named 'Helen'.

By the Pricking of My Thumbs (2006)
When Tommy and Tuppence visit an elderly aunt in her nursing home, Tuppence is concerned by the odd behavior of some staff and residents. So when Tuppence hears about Aunt Ada's sudden death and the disappearance of her friend Mrs Lancaster, she realizes her concerns were right. Tuppence meets Miss Marple and together they follow a path of clues that lead them to the Norfolk village of Farrell St Edmund, where they find a community guarding an array of secrets. Only by getting to the bottom of these secrets do they begin to unravel the truth about the mystery of Aunt Ada's death and Mrs Lancaster's disappearance.

The Moving Finger (2006)
When troubled war veteran Jerry Burton and his sister Joanna relocate to the quiet little village of Lymstock in order to allow Jerry to recuperate from injuries received in what he claims is a motorcycle accident, they are expecting nothing more than country sleepiness and tedium. Much to their surprise, however, they find themselves embroiled in the middle of scandal and secrets; someone is sending vicious poison-pen letters to the residents. A local dignitary has already taken his own life over the letters, and it's not long before local gossip Mona Symmington also commits suicide after receiving a letter. But when the letter-writer apparently resorts to murder, Jerry finds his curiosity stoked despite himself, and he's not the only one; Miss Jane Marple is also in Lymstock, and she's decided that it's long past time someone got to the bottom of this unpleasant business.

The Sittaford Mystery (2006)
When Clive Trevelyan - Member of Parliament, war hero and heir apparent to Prime Minister Winston Churchill- is killed, Miss Marple sets about to solve the case. Trevelyan has made his fortune many years before in Egypt having secretly uncovered a lost tomb. He is killed during a major snowstorm when there are no police available. There are several possible suspects including Trevelyan's ward, James Pearson and his fiancée Emily Trefusis; his political agent, John Enderby; a journalist Charles Burnaby; a visiting American Martin Zimmerman; and several other apparently disinterested parties. A convict has also escaped from Dartmoor prison. Miss Marple concludes that Trevalyan's murder is related to his days in Egypt and sets about to identify the murderer.

Towards Zero (2007)
Miss Marple is visiting an old school friend, Lady Camilla Tressilian, along with an eclectic group: Neville Strange and his wife Kay, his former wife Audrey and her childhood friend and cousin Thomas Royde, Ted Latimer (who is something of a gigolo and very attracted to Kay Strange) and finally Freddie Treves, a retired solicitor. When Treves is found dead the day after a dinner party at Lady Tressilian's home and Lady Tressilian herself is found bludgeoned to death a short time later, Miss Marple must sort through the complex set of relationships among all the players, and determine what role the tale of a child's crime may have had to play in the deaths.

Nemesis (1987)
Miss Marple is called upon to solve her most perplexing case yet. Upon his death, financier John Rafiel asks her to solve a murder. Only problem is that the murder may or may not have place as yet and the victim is unknown. All that he has given her is two tickets on the Daffodil Tour Company's Mystery Tour. It soon becomes obvious that others on the tour were also 'selected' by Mr. Rafiel. Jane Marple, assisted by her nephew Raymond West, concludes that the case must be related to that of Verity Hunt, a young woman who in 1939 was running away from an overattentive landlord and eventually disappeared. When a member of the tour dies mysteriously, she also realizes that someone is desperate to keep a deep, dark secret.

At Bertram's Hotel (2007)
Miss Marple finds herself on a bit of a holiday and staying at the very posh Bertram's Hotel, where she stayed as a child and for which she has very fond memories. Things take a sinister turn when a hotel maid, Tilly Rice, is found strangled on the roof. Miss Marple can't help but investigate but is assisted by Jane Cooper, also a hotel maid, who is in fact a younger version of Miss Marple. When an attempt is made on the life of a hotel guest, Elvira Blake the two Janes work together to find the motive and the identity of the killer.

Ordeal by Innocence (2007)
A young doctor, who has returned from an Arctic expedition, learns that he is the only witness that could have saved a young prisoner accused of the murder of his adoptive mother from the gallows. He decides to inform the family of the deceased with the news, but realizes that it has re-opened old wounds and that they are upset with him for bungling into their now-happy life. As the finger of suspicion points from one person to the next, he decides to prove the young man's innocence. Miss Marple, who is staying with the family for the wedding of the father and his secretary, also assists in the investigations. But the true killer becomes restless, striking once more and cutting the threads of happiness in the family. Miss Marple reveals the truth, but not before the ordeal by innocence claims another life.

Marple: A Pocket Full of Rye (2008)
When Rex Fortescue dies while sitting at his desk in the City, it's determined that he was in fact poisoned. He was married to a much younger wife, who now stands to inherit. His son Percival, a partner in the family firm, was a disappointment to him and a daughter, Elaine, hasn't amounted to much. Another son, Lance, had a falling out with his father many years before and relocated to East Africa. He suddenly appears soon after his father's death claiming that they had reconciled and been invited by him to return to England with an offer to rejoin the firm. Miss Marple takes a particular interest in the case when her former maid Gladys, now working in the Fortescue household, is also murdered. She soon learns that the elder Fortescue had received veiled threats for some time and that they might have something to do with a long ago business deal that made his initial fortune.

Marple: Murder Is Easy (2008)
While traveling on a train to London, Miss Marple is told by a woman she has never met, Lavinia Pinkerton, that she is certain there have been two murders in her village of Wychwood. When Lavinia dies in what is purported to be an accident - she fell, or was pushed, down the escalator in a tube station - Miss Marple decides to visit Wychwood and see what she can find. As Miss Marple is apt to say, one English village is like another and Wychwood has its secrets like any other. The first woman to die was Florie Gibbs who, despite being experienced in such things, supposedly ate poison mushrooms she picked herself. The second was the local vicar who failed to wear his mask when using poison near his beehives. The third is a young woman who, it is said, accidentally drank hat dye instead of her cough medicine. Miss Marple finds a clue that points to a motive with origins many years before and a secret someone will do anything, including murder, to keep hidden.

Agatha Christie Marple: Why Didn't They Ask Evans? (2009)
While visiting her friend Marjorie Attfield, Miss Marple learns that her son Bobby had recently found a body, identified as a Mr. Pritchard, on the cliff side. He's received a letter asking him to appear at the enquiry but it seems to be a wild goose chase meant to keep him away from the real enquiry taking place elsewhere. Now accompanied by a friend, Frankie Derwent, they trace the dead man to nearby Castle Savage, home to a dysfunctional family with great deal of money. The family patriarch, Jack Savage, had died not long ago and the dead man had some connection to the Savages. But what is the key to solving the mystery of Pritchard's last words to Bobby as he lay dying: 'Why didn't they ask Evans?'.

Agatha Christie Marple: They Do It with Mirrors (2009)
Ruth Van Rydock asks her old friend Jane Marple to look into some strange happenings at her sister's home. Miss Marple knows the sister, Carrie Louise Serrocold, quite well and is soon staying with them. Carrie Louise has a complicated history. Now on her third husband, she has an adopted daughter, Gina, as well as a biological daughter, Milfred. A recent fire in her study destroyed most of her private papers, but she dismisses any thought that someone may be out to do her harm. When her stepson from her first marriage, Christian, is stabbed in the back, they find a note warning Carrie Louise that someone is trying to poison her. After a second member of the household is murdered however, Miss Marple realizes they have all been the victims of a very clever ruse.

Marple: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side (2010)
Hollywood star Marina Gregg leaves Los Angeles for the picturesque countryside of St Mary Mead. Having taken up residence at Gossington Hall with her dashing young English husband, film director Jason Rudd, his secretary, Ella Blunt and Marina's exclusive personal assistant, Hailey Preston, it's not long before she becomes lady of the manor. When the glamorous couple decide to throw a benefit for the St John Ambulance, the grounds are abuzz with curious locals including previous owner of Gossington Hall, Dolly Bantry. But when a local fan, Heather Badcock consumes a poisoned daiquiri, Marina finds herself starring in a real-life mystery - supported by Miss Marple and Inspector Hewitt, who suspect that the lethal cocktail was intended for someone else. But who? If it was meant for Marina, then why?

Marple: The Secret of Chimneys (2010)
Miss Marple finds herself spending the weekend at Chimneys, the stately home of Lord Caterham whose late wife was her cousin. The weekend has something of a diplomatic air to it as the Austrian Count Ludwig von Stainach is also there to negotiate a trade agreement with the British that will give it access to iron ore. Chimneys was once the 'in' place to be for a fancy weekend but over many years, it has become somewhat run-down. Except for a maid who disappeared with a valuable diamond in the 1920s, not much of note has happened there for a long time. Everyone is surprised when Count von Stainach says that in addition to signing the trade agreement, he also wants to purchase Chimneys. Lord Caterham's eldest daughter Bundle is dead set set against the idea but it all takes a very serious turn when the Count is found murdered. There are several suspects and another member of the household will die before Miss Marple solves the crime.

Marple: The Blue Geranium (2010)
A cruel, superstitious woman dies of apparent fright after being warned of her fate by a medium, but another death confirms that she was murdered. A suspect is arrested, but Miss Marple is convinced the killer is someone entirely different.

Marple: The Pale Horse (2010)
Miss Marple (Julia McKenzie) receives a list of names from a recently murdered friend. The mystery leads her to The Pale Horse Inn-a coven of modern-day witches-and possibly her own demise.

The Murder at the Vicarage (2004)
No one seems surprised when Colonel Lucius Protheroe, the most disliked person in St. Mary Mead, is found murdered in the local vicarage. Red herrings abound, especially when his widow and her lover both confess to the murder.

4:50 from Paddington (2004)
Miss Marple investigates the wealthy Crackenthorpe clan, believing a body to be hidden on their estate after a visiting friend witnesses a brutal strangling murder occurring on a passing train.

The Body in the Library (2004)
Dolly Bantry calls upon her old friend Miss Marple when the strangled corpse of an unknown blonde girl is found in the library of her home, Gossington Hall.

A Murder Is Announced (2005)
The villagers of Chipping Cleghorn are summoned by a newspaper notice to the house of Letitia Blacklock, anticipating an evening of murder games. But things become all too real when an intruder is shot dead.

Sleeping Murder (2006)
Gwenda Halliday, a wealthy young Englishwoman recently emigrated from India, intuitively buys a seaside manor house, where she re-experiences a murder.

By the Pricking of My Thumbs (2006)
Miss Marple joins forces with Tommy and Tuppence Beresford to find the murderer of Tommy's Aunt Ada.

The Moving Finger (2006)
Troubled war veteran Jerry Burton and his sister Emily rent a cottage in a seemingly tranquil English village which is plagued by a spate of poison pen letters... and murder.

The Sittaford Mystery (2006)
The death of the presumptive future PM is predicted during a séance in a snowbound country hotel and, not surprisingly, he is found stabbed to death the next morning.

Towards Zero (2007)
A wealthy woman holds a party at her Devon estate for family and friends, including old schoolmate Miss Marple. When a solicitor and the hostess herself are both murdered, Miss Marple tries to find a clever killer with a devious plan.

Nemesis (1987)
Miss Marple and her nephew, novelist Raymond West, embark on a coach tour of historic English houses with an eclectic group of characters at the behest of a late friend who had knowledge of an unsolved murder.

At Bertram's Hotel (2007)
Miss Marple spends a holiday in a luxurious London hotel. The sinister atmosphere, the odd disappearance of a clergyman and the murder of the commissionaire moves her on the trail of a clever criminal gang.

Ordeal by Innocence (2007)
Old wounds are reopened for the Argyle family when a man suddenly turns up after being abroad and claims that the black sheep of the family could not have murdered its tyrannical matriarch... and that the deed was committed by someone else.

Marple: A Pocket Full of Rye (2008)
A detestable businessman is murdered while at work, and a handful of rye is found in his pockets. Soon after, members of his household fall victim to a killer intent on recreating scenes from a popular nursery rhyme.

Marple: Murder Is Easy (2008)
A village becomes the scene of a spate of strange deaths. At first glance they seem like tragic accidents, but Miss Marple is convinced a more sinister hand is involved when a villager on her way to Scotland Yard is conveniently dispatched.

Agatha Christie Marple: Why Didn't They Ask Evans? (2009)
The cryptic final words of a dying man lead Miss Marple and two young adventurers to a dysfunctional family harboring dark secrets.

Agatha Christie Marple: They Do It with Mirrors (2009)
Miss Marple is requested to help her old friend Carrie-Louise, the loving wife of benign philanthropist Lewis Serrocold. Carrie-Louise is slowly poisoned by an unknown hand,and her husband and her sister Ruth want absolutely to save her from this dark menace.

The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side (2010)
A troubled Hollywood actress and her director husband move to St. Mary Mead, but their arrival becomes clouded in tragedy when an ardent fan is fatally poisoned during a garden fête.

The Secret of Chimneys (2010)
An attempt to bring a famed stately home back to its former glory is marred when a visiting Austrian diplomat is shot to death decades after the disappearance of a priceless diamond.

The Blue Geranium (2010)
A cruel, superstitious woman dies of apparent fright after her fate is foretold by a medium. Miss Marple, however, is convinced of foul play when another death occurs.

The Pale Horse (2010)
Miss Marple's friend - a Catholic priest - is battered to death after visiting a woman dying under strange circumstances. Seeking justice, she becomes entangled in a nefarious organization centered around an inn run by purported witches.

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