![]() ![]() ![]() Hum-m-m-m- The pace is usually so slow, the suspects so numerous, the murders so plentiful at times, that a less excitable description is more apt-“entertaining,” maybe “diverting.” What is true from among the box superlatives is the “picturesque English scenery, grand estates. The DVD box propaganda boasts of four “gripping” mysteries. Dame Christie had her own thoughts on this flippant crossbreeding: “I get an unregenerate pleasure when I think they’re not being a success.” In both Evans and Easy, other individuals do the sleuthing with Miss Marple in a subservient role, often as little more than an eavesdropper, like a “stuck in” bonus character, at the worst as an afterthought. The last two are not actual Marple mysteries, nor are they adapted from Poirot originals, as has often occurred in some supposed “Marple” entries. Julia McKenzie immediately assumed the role and made four TV episodes which comprise Series 4: A Pocket Full of Rye, They Do It with Mirrors, Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? and Murder Is Easy. She retired after her twelfth Miss Marple, Ordeal by Innocence, in 2007. The first three sets in the series feature Geraldine McEwan in the role. Īcorn Media/ITV Global Entertainment has released, on four DVDs, Series 4 of Miss Marple mysteries, Agatha Christie’s elderly spinster sleuth. Never armed, always knitting, forever listening subdued, philosophically homespun and, yes, dowdy. ![]()
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