Synopsis
"Miss Marple: The Body in the Library" (1984) is a BBC crime mystery series you can watch online on iFILM. Joan Hickson plays Agatha Christie's Miss Jane Marple, summoned by her friend Mrs. Bantry after a young woman's body is found in the library at Gossington Hall — nobody knows who she is or how she got there.
The source novel is one of Christie's tighter puzzles: everyone connected to the house had a reason, nobody had an obvious one. Director Silvio Narizzano keeps the pace measured and the rooms close, which suits Hickson's quietly exacting performance. She watches, she listens, she occasionally says something that sounds harmless and lands like a verdict. Many Miss Marples have come since — none quite managed what Hickson did here. Stream "The Body in the Library" online on iFILM.
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