norhwa.blogg.se - The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie

Here, Hawes' landlady (Mrs Salisbury instead of Mrs Sadler) calls Lawrence Redding and mentions that Hawes is dead or dying.

The way the murderer is exposed was different in the novel.

The sound in the woods is not made by a rock falling on picric acid but by a loudspeaker wired to a tape recording of a gunshot.

He is also present in the vicarage kitchen at various times, perhaps even when the murder is being committed. He trips on a wire in the woods behind the vicarage. Here he has a relationship with Mary Wright, the maid of the Clements. Bill Archer has a larger role here than in the book.A number of minor characters are not featured, including Raymond West, Dennis Clement.Stone and Gladys Cram and the entire sideplot of theft of silver from Old Hall are deleted.

The vicar does not take part in the investigations like in the novel. The entire investigation is conducted by Slack, with the addition of Sgt Lake (who was not in the novel).

The adaptation was generally very close to the original novel with a number of changes.

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Fletcher (mentioned by Inspector Slack).

Robert Lang as Colonel Lucius Protheroe.

Paul Eddington as Reverend Leonard Clement.

Miss Marple, an elderly spinster with a talent for snooping and solving little everyday puzzles, promptly joins the investigation. When Colonel Protheroe, hated by all around, is found dead at the Vicarage, the villagers of St Mary Mead are left in an uproar.