Sleeping Murder

Not even friends of Miss Marple's (Joan Hickson) can escape the strange disturbances that always seem to occur in the same vicinity as our overly curious and incredibly charming leading lady. When Elspeth McGillicuddy goes for a short trip to visit her good friend Miss Marple, she chances to witness a woman being strangled to death on a passing train. Nobody wants to believe a dithering old lady with a vivid imagination, not even the detective, because no corpse shows up to corroborate her story. Fortunately for everyone else, Miss Marple knows better than to dismiss her good friend's wild imagination. Instead, Miss Marple takes on the quest to find the corpse and solve the murder, which brings her to Rutherford Hall. Here she meets the rather crusty and cranky character Luther Crackenthorpe, who inadvertently helps her fish out the clues and gather them in her mystery-solving net. As always, it's up to Miss Marple to figure out whodunit this time. --Samantha Allen Storey