![]() ![]() Yes, it’s not true to the text, but it was lively and fun to watch. Great actors and actresses chewed the scenery with gusto. I would have given it a higher score except Miss Marple’s solution was so truncated as to have been pulled out of her knitting bag. Worse, plenty of the actors had poor enunciation so I didn’t always know what they were saying. Subtitles would have fixed this issue but alas, ITV Productions didn’t pay for them. This version of Sleeping Murder is very, very different from Joan Hickson’s 1987 opus. ![]() The main beats of the text are there: orphaned young woman arrives in England after growing up overseas and by an astounding coincidence buys the house she lived in as a toddler. This is the house where, as a toddler, she witnessed her stepmother being strangled. ![]() A few other characters remain from the novel, notably Dr. Fane, a former parlor maid, the former cook, and a clerk in a yarn shop.Īfter that, the script veers off into new and exciting territory. We begin in India, with color and drama and Kelvin Halliday’s wife dying tragically in a car accident. ![]()
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