Agatha Christie Marple, Complete Series 1-6

Miss Marple's friend Dolly Bantry enlists her help after she and her husband find the body of a mystery woman in their library. When news comes through that a glamorous exhibition dancer has disappeared from the hotel where she worked, the victim - if not the murderer - seems to have been identified. As another body is discovered, Miss Marple realises that the roots of the killing go back to an earlier tragedy. Love, money and loneliness all play their part.

When the vicar in Miss Marple's village declares in exasperation that anyone who murdered Colonel Prothero would be doing the world a service, he does not realise his words will come back to haunt him. The Colonel's death at the vicarage throws up a long list of potential murderers. The unpopular local resident made many enemies. Miss Marple, temporarily incapacitated after an accident, is perfectly placed to investigate.

Two trains draw briefly alongside each other as they race past a country house. To her horror, Miss Marple's friend Mrs McGillicuddy witnesses a man in a passing carriage brutally strangling a mystery woman. With no body to be found, the police decide she must have dreamed the incident. Miss Marple is convinced the answer lies with the ill-fated family who own the mansion and persuades a bright young friend to pose as a housekeeper and gather clues for her.

A local advertisement announcing the date and location of a forthcoming murder has a small village buzzing with curiosity. Assuming it's a hoax, a crowd is nonetheless gathered at Letitia Blacklock's cottage at the appointed time when the lights go out and a gunman fires into the room. When the lights go up, Letitia is wounded and the mysterious gunman lies dead. Miss Marple, visiting an old friend in the village, can't resist joining the investigation.

When Gwenda Halliday moves in to the home of her dreams, she begins to see ghostly apparitions. Then it is discovered that Gwenda grew up in the house and the mystery becomes more sinister - and she and Miss Marple realise that an unsolved murder was committed there.

When Tommy and Tuppence visit an elderly aunt in her nursing home, Tuppence is concerned by some odd behaviour of the staff and residents. Later, when Tuppence hears about Aunt Ada's sudden death and the disappearance of her aunt's friend Mrs Lancaster, she realises her concerns were right. Tuppence meets Miss Marple and together they follow a path of clues that lead them to the village of Farrell St Edmund, where they find a community guarding an array of secrets.

Lymstock is a town with more than its share of shameful secrets, a town where even a sudden outbreak of anonymous hate-mail causes only a minor stir. When Mrs Symmington commits suicide as a result of one of the letters, Miss Marple believes that there is more to this case. Was Mrs Symmington murdered? As the letters become even more deadly the village is thrown into turmoil. Someone in the village must be responsible - can anyone be trusted?

Heavy snow is falling in Dartmoor and the shadowy guests in the local hotel decide to take part in a seance in order to amuse themselves. The evening takes on a more sinister edge when the table-turning suggests Trevelyan, an infamous local, is in danger. At Sittaford house Miss Marple finds a death threat sent to Trevelyan. Burnaby, Trevelyan's loyal right hand man, is so concerned for his friend's safety that he wants to check on him. Unfortunately, Trevelyan is staying at the hotel - six miles away. With snow drifts blocking the roads, someone will have to make the journey on foot.

Miss Marple arrives at the luxurious Bertram's Hotel, but soon discovers that there are dark secrets lurking below the highly polished veneer. When one of the maids is murdered, she tries to learn the truth before the murderer strikes again. But the truth is far more sinister than even she is prepared for.

Miss Marple is overjoyed to be attending the wedding of her old housemaid, but finds a house full of secrets and a family desperately trying to come to terms with the fact that their brother was sent to the gallows for a murder he did not commit.

Miss Marple is faced with her greatest challenge yet when she receives instructions from an old friend, the recently deceased Mr Rafiel, to investigate a 'possible crime'. But there's a catch - she has not been told what the crime is. Instead, she is booked onto a mystery coach tour to gather clues. Miss Marple takes her nephew Raymond West to accompany her on the tour as Mr Rafiel warns that danger may threaten. It begins to dawn on them both that all the passengers are connected to a young girl, Verity Hunt, who went missing during the war. They also realise that every destination on the tour is significant and start to piece together information about Verity. Why did she flee from a nun's sanctuary in the dead of night to be with her German lover, Mr Rafiel's son Michael, and was never seen again. With the help of young detective Colin Hards, Miss Marple and Raymond piece together the secrets of the past to fulfil a promise to her dear old friend.

Murder mystery. Miss Marple investigates when her holiday at an old school friend's coastal villa is interrupted by the mysterious death of one of her fellow guests, just hours after he told the ghostly tale of a murderous child.

Businessman Rex Fortescue is poisoned, and found with a pocketful of rye in his jacket. Inspector Neele is called to investigate, ably assisted by Miss Marple, but the call comes too late as Rex’s cheating young wife Adele is also found dead. The question is, who will be next?

Miss Marple charms her way into the peaceful village of Wychwoodunder-Ashe to investigate a series of murders, and is befriended by Luke Fitzwilliam, a handsome former policeman. But amongst a succession of sudden deaths, and a local election, Marple prepares to deliver a secret so shocking the village will never be the same again.

As the sole witness to a dying man’s last words – “Why didn’t they ask Evans?” – Bobby Attfield is determined to solve the riddle they pose. Forming an unlikely alliance with socialite Frankie Derwent and visiting family friend Miss Marple, his resolve is strengthened when someone tries to kill him. A trail of clues leads them to Castle Savage and its inhabitants.

When Miss Marple goes to stay with her friend Carrie-Louise, she soon realises that all is not well. Not only is this the family home, but it also serves as a rehabilitation centre for delinquent boys. But then an attempt is made on the life of Carrie-Louise’s husband, her step-son is murdered and someone tries to poison Carrie.

Featuring ingenious deceptions and black magic, The Pale Horse sees Miss Marple (Julia McKenzie) investigate the brutal murder of an old friend. The day after Father Gorman is found dead she receives a mysterious letter from him containing a list of names. His final act was to administer the last rites to a dying woman, Mrs Davis, so Miss Marple starts by visiting her boarding house. It turns out to be a good hunch. Lodger Paul Osborne describes a man he saw following Father Gorman on the night he died, and she also chances upon a slip of paper bearing the name of The Pale Horse Inn. At this creepy establishment Miss Marple is greeted by three modern-day witches Thyrza, Sybil and Bella. Indeed, the whole village is steeped in the occult. When eccentric local Captain Cottam is also killed, Miss Marple is forced to take the law into her own hands.

A lavish weekend party sees Miss Marple accompany Lady Virginia Revel to her family home of Chimneys a house which was once prized for its diplomatic gatherings until a rare diamond was stolen from the premises over twenty years ago. Virginia must decide by the end of the weekend whether to accept a marriage proposal from the tenacious career politician George Lomax or to follow her heart and the courtship of another more adventurous suitor, Anthony Cade. Throughout the course of the evening, a contract for the sale of the house is drawn up only for the purchaser to be found dead in a secret passageway within its walls. Chief Inspector arrives from Scotland Yard to investigate, enlisting Miss Marple's help. When the bones of a long dead servant are uncovered, Miss Marple begins to realise that the secret of Chimneys is darker than even she had realised.

Miss Marple tries to stop a court hearing when she discovers important new evidence about the 'Blue Geranium' murder case. Months before, Marple is attending a tense gathering at a village golf club when the dead body of a strange young man is discovered. Soon after, a wealthy and unpopular local woman is found dead in bed. Did she really die of shock when the geranium in her wallpaper turned blue? Can Marple stop the trial in time before the wrong person is found guilty of murder?

The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side tells the story of Hollywood star Marina Gregg, who has left the palm trees and bright lights of Los Angeles for the leafy lanes and picturesque countryside of St Mary Mead, England. She has taken up residence at Gossington Hall with her dashing young English husband, film director Jason Rudd, his secretary, Ella Blunt, and her personal assistant, Hailey Preston. When the glamorous couple decide to throw a party, the grounds are abuzz with curious locals, including previous owner of Gossington Hall Dolly Bantry. But when fan Heather Badcock consumes a poisoned daiquiri, Marina finds herself starring in a real-life mystery, supported by Miss Marple and Inspector Hewitt, who suspect that the lethal cocktail was intended for someone other than Marina's harmless admirer...

Miss Marple is drawn into a web of deceit, dark magic and death while supposedly holidaying on the Caribbean island of St Honore. Along with the help of business tycoon Jason Rafiel, she sets to work unravelling the truth and capturing the island's dangerous killer.

Miss Marple helps a family friend seek refuge at a country pile known as Greenshaw's Folly. But a sinister shadow soon begins to fall over the strange old building's various inhabitants. As Miss Marple uncovers dark, deadly secrets from the past, a dangerous storm is gathering and the threat of murder begins to strike once more.

While staying with a recently widowed friend, Miss Marple makes the acquaintance of the charming young drifter Mike Rogers. However, events take a sinister turn when Mike and his new wife Ellie move into the cursed Gipsy's Acre, and a killer strikes - one so dangerous that even Miss Marple herself could be at risk.