Tommy works for MI6 and his wife used to enjoy amateur sleuthing but more recently has resorted more to the bottle. This one is a little different to preceding ones in that it also involves a couple of other recurring Agatha Christie characters, Tommy & Tuppence (played by Anthony Andrews and Greta Scacchi). It is impossible to describe the plot in detail without giving away the story and spoiling the twists. Both series were shown on ABC television here in Australia and both have been released as a series of DVDs by Roadshow.Īs you would expect from Agatha Christie, all of these new Miss Marple (played here by the wonderful Geraldine McEwan) stories are full of murder, twists, lies, red herrings and deceptions.
Both of these characters have recently been brought to life again in a series of Granada Television telemovies over the last few years. Turn it off here.Īgatha Christie created two of the most enduring characters in crime fiction, Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple. If you create a user account, you can add your own review of this DVD Although not in the original novel Geraldine McEwan appears as Miss Marple in ITV's 2006 episode.Agatha Christie-Marple-By the Pricking of My Thumbs (2006)
Tommy is now over seventy, and Tuppence is sixty-six. Unlike Christie's other recurring characters, the detectives have aged in accordance with time. The novel marks the return of Tommy and Tuppence after nearly three decades of silence. Her incessant reference to 'something behind the fireplace' and a 'poor child' seems at first the incoherent ramblings of an elderly woman, though when Aunt Ada sadly passes away, a painting left to Tommy in her will leads the duo on a dangerous adventure where they finally discover exactly what Mrs Lancaster was talking about.Published in 1968, the title is taken from a line in Shakespeare's Macbeth. "By the pricking of my thumbs,Something wicked this way comes."William Shakespeare – Macbeth (Act IV, Scene 1)When visiting Tommy's Aunt Ada in her nursing home, Tuppence encounters some odd residents, Mrs Lancaster, being the strangest of them all.
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