The story then takes off in various directions, some involving a pier-end concert party of meagre distinction known as The Funnybones. Miss Marple's arrival at Hillside, summoned to help solve a mystery, is happily contrived. Foremost there is Geraldine McEwan, with her delightfully sly interpretation of Christie's spinster sleuth, Jane Marple, from the village of St Mary Mead. So far, it's most tempting and performance driven to the end, for there is pleasure to be gained spotting a string of familiar faces from a sumptuous array of acting talent. Another murder mystery movie based on Agatha Christies work, but ths one benefits from having the wonderful Joan Hickson as Miss Marple, easily the best. Gwenda Halliday (Sophia Myles), engaged to a millionaire, arrives in England from India and wastes no time buying Hillside, an imposing house in Devonshire where strange things start going bump in the night. 2008 The owner of a seaside villa is plagued by strange feelings about its past Soon after Gwenda moved into.
The episodes were directed by John Davies with screenplay by Ken Taylor. Sleeping Murder (Miss Marple) Paperback 2 Jun. It was transmitted in two 50-minute parts on Sunday, 11 January and Sunday, 18 January 1987.
Sleeping Murder makes an intriguing start. Sleeping Murder was filmed by the BBC as a 100-minute film in the sixth adaptation (of twelve) in the BBCs Miss Marple TV series starring Joan Hickson as Miss Marple. In this new version (it was originally filmed in 1987 with Joan Hickson), the story sometimes drifts in the shallows but this beautifully mounted production always maintains its good looks. Here, in the last of her 66 detective stories, published soon after her death in 1976, she was at it again. Agatha Christie enjoyed assembling all her suspects in one room and then picking off the loose threads until she revealed the poor wretch who dunit.
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