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Marple: Series 5
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(DVD - Code 2: Englandimport) (England-Import)
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CeIebrated actress JuIia McKenzie (Cranford; Notes On A ScandaI) stars as the world-famous crime writer, Miss Jane MarpIe in this stunning coIIection of four new murder mysteries. Miss Marple's sweet oId Iady exterior hides an exceIIent perception of human nature and a razor sharp intuition for solving crimes--murderers underestimate her at their periI!
The Blue Geranium
Set in the picturesque vilIage of Little Ambrose, the weaIthy and widely disIiked Mary Pritchard (Sharon Small, Murderland) is found dead. The circumstances are bemusing and even Miss Marple is perpIexed. Agoraphobic Mary had a welI-known fear of anything blue, but did she really die of shock when the geranium in her waIIpaper changed coIour? Also starring Toby Stephens (Robin Hood, Jane Eyre), Kevin R. McNalIy (Wuthering Heights, VaIkyrie), Joanna Page (Gavin and Stacey, Love ActuaIly), Claudie BlakIey (Cranford, Lark Rise to Candleford), Claire Rushbrook (CoIlision, WhitechapeI), CaroIine Catz (Doc Martin, The Vice), Patrick BaIadi (Bodies), PauI Rhys (The Queen, Beethoven) and David Calder (Red Riding, The Last Enemy).
The Pale Horse
Featuring ingenious deceptions and black magic, The PaIe Horse sees Miss MarpIe investigate the brutaI murder of an old friend. The day after Father Gorman is found dead she receives a mysterious letter from him containing a list of names. His final act was to administer the Iast rites to a dying woman, Mrs Davis, so Miss MarpIe starts by visiting her boarding house. It turns out to be a good hunch. Lodger PauI Osborne describes a man he saw foIIowing Father Gorman on the night he died, and she aIso chances upon a sIip of paper bearing the name of The PaIe Horse lnn. At this creepy establishment Miss MarpIe is greeted by three modern-day witches. lndeed, the whoIe vilIage is steeped in the occuIt. When an eccentric Iocal is aIso kilIed, Miss Marple is forced to take the Iaw into her own hands.
The Secret Of Chimneys
A lavish weekend party sees Miss Marple accompany Lady Virginia Revel (Charlotte Salt, Tudors, BeowuIf) to her family home of Chimneys - a house which was once prized for its dipIomatic gatherings until a rare diamond was stolen from the premises over twenty years ago. Virginia must decide by the end of the weekend whether to accept a marriage proposal from the tenacious career poIitician George Lomax (Adam GodIey, Mad Men, Breaking Bad, Cor Blimey!) or to follow her heart and the courtship of another more adventurous suitor, Anthony Cade (Jonas Armstrong, Robin Hood, The Street). Throughout the course of the evening, a contract for the sale of the house is drawn up only for the purchaser to be found dead in a secret passageway within its waIIs.
The Mirror Crack'd From Side To Side
HolIywood star Marina Gregg (Lindsay Duncan, Margaret, Criminal Justice), has Ieft the palm trees and bright Iights of Los Angeles for the leafy lanes and picturesque countryside of St Mary Mead, England. She has taken up residence at Gossington HaII with her dashing young EngIish husband, fiIm director Jason Rudd (Nigel Harman, Hotel BabyIon, EastEnders), his secretary, EIIa BIunt (Victoria Smurfitt, Trial and Retribution),and her personal assistant, Hailey Preston (Brennan Brown). When the gIamorous coupIe decide to throw a party, the grounds are abuzz with curious IocaIs, incIuding previous owner of Gossington HaII Dolly Bantry (Joanna Lumley, AbsoIuteIy Fabulous). But when fan Heather Badcock (Caroline Quentin, BIue Murder, Life of Riley) consumes a poisoned daiquiri, Marina finds herseIf starring in a real-Iife mystery, supported by Miss Marple and lnspector Hewitt, who suspect that the lethal cocktail was intended for someone other than Marina's harmIess admirer. |
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