The maid didn't do it. And, there is no butler.
Miss Marple, returning home from a shopping trip to London, doses-off while reading a murder mystery. A passing express train awakens her and on it she sees a man strangling a woman.
She reports it to the train guard who doesn’t believe her, but takes-down her name and address, and dutifully reports it to the station master at the next station. The police investigate and cannot find a body. Everyone dismisses Miss Marple as a “dotty old maid”.
She knows what she saw, and is not “dotty”. With the help of her “partner-in-crime”, Mr. Stringer, she finds-out what happened to the body. Now she has-to-find-out whose body it is, where it is, and who committed the murder.
Again, with Mr. Stringer’s help, she takes a job as a house maid in a large estate with a cantankerous master and a bunch of greedy family members. She finds the body. But who is it? Why was she strangled? Who’s the strangler?
Miss Marple, as interpreted by Margaret Rutherford, is never daunted. With the help of Richard Briers, and Joan Hickson, who decades later would re-interpret Miss Marple, in early rôles, Miss Marple solves the mysteries.
Margaret Rutherford at her eccentric best!
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