Miss Marple in They Do It with Mirrors (BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisation)

Agatha Christie

ISBN 10: 1846070368 ISBN 13: 9781846070365

Publisher: BBC Audio, 2001

Synopsis

The pleasant village of Market Kindle in the south of England is home to Stoneygates, a school for delinquent boys housed in a Victorian mansion belonging to the rich and elderly Carrie Louise Serrocold and her husband Lewis. When Miss Marple pays her old friend Carrie Louise a visit, she immediately senses that something is wrong at the school. Two gunshots, heard from behind the locked study door, seem to confirm her suspicions. While Lewis Serrocold escapes this attempt on his life, however, the visiting Mr. Gulbrandsen has met a grisly fate elsewhere in the house. What did Mr. Gulbrandsen know to make him a target for murder? Who has been trying to poison Carrie Louise with arsenic? And what role in all this has Serrocold's deeply disturbed, self-styled assistant, Edgar Lawson? Miss Marple's infallible detective instincts succeed in raising these and other significant questions—and all she requires now are the answers. . . This full-cast dramatization of Agatha Christie's ingenious mystery stars June Whitfield, with Keith Barron, and Jill Balcon.

2 CDs. 2hrs 15 mins.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Miss Marple senses danger when she visits a friend living in Stoneygates, a rehabilitation center for delinquents. Her fears are confirmed when someone shoots at the administrator. Although he is not injured, a mysterious visitor is less fortunate—shot dead simultaneously in another part of the building.

Pure coincidence? Miss Marple thinks not, and must use all her cunning to solve the riddle of the stranger’s visit ... and his murder.

About the Author:

Agatha Christie was born in 1890. During the World War I she worked as a hospital dispenser, where she gleaned the working knowledge of various poisons. Her first novel was The Mysterious Affair at Styles, published in 1920, followed over the next six years by four more detective novels and a short story collection. However, it was not until the publication of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd that Agatha Christie’s reputation was firmly established. In 1930 the sharp-witted spinster sleuth Miss Marple made her first appearance in Murder at the Vicarage. In all, Agatha Christie published 80 crime novels and short story collections. As her play The Mousetrap (the longest-running play in the history of the theater) testifies, Agatha Christie’s detective stories are likely to appeal for a long time to come. Agatha Christie was awarded a CBE in 1956 and was made a Dame of the British Empire in 1971. She died in 1976.

About this edition

• Publisher: BBC Audio
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1846070368
• ISBN 13: 9781846070365
• Binding: Audio CD
• Number of pages: 1