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Victorian mansion, which now has a separate building for delinquent boys, the cause which engages Carrie Louise and her third husband, Lewis
Serrocold. Carrie Louise has her family living with her, as her granddaughter Gina has brought her American husband Walter to England to meet her family. Daughter Mildred Strete moved back home after she was widowed. Stepsons Stephen and Alexis Restarick, now grown, are frequent visitors and are present during Miss Marple's visit. One of the first people Miss Marple encounters is Edgar Lawson, a young man acting as a secretary to Serrocold; Lawson shows clear signs of
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terrace. Miss Marple watches them through her bird-watcher's binoculars and tries to learn the reason for
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of his actions, which Miss Marple suspected when she smelt petroleum in the secret passage. When Johnny began to question Ernest, Lewis realised the danger he could create and so gave him oysters laced with arsenic; this did not kill him, but merely kept him out of harm's way. This adaptation had two murders, not three.
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intervene by trying to open the door. Another shot (not fired in Lewis's office) had been heard by some, but not all. When the door to Lewis's office is finally opened, Lewis scoffs at any concern for himself, and they see that the shots Lawson fired had hit the wall. Lawson collapses in tears and apologies.
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Inspector Curry quickly establishes that none of the people from the facility for delinquent boys are involved, nor any of the servants either. Curry discovers that there was a sheet of paper in the typewriter when Jolly entered the dead man's room. Lewis admits to removing it, explaining that he had
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Wally is made the initial suspect in the murder, owing to his absence to fix the fuses and the murder weapon being his. The police only begin to look elsewhere, and later to Johnny, when Gina reveals the study has a secret passage that links it to the hallway; Miss Marple explains in her denouement
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Gina Hudd: granddaughter of Carrie Louise from her first marriage. She was born in Italy, moved to
England as an infant when her mother died in childbirth. She spent World War II in the US with her aunt Ruth, sent there for safety. Her mother was Pippa, the adopted daughter of Carrie Louise and her
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Alexis explains that his drive to the house was slowed by the fog, and that what he saw and heard in the fog, such as a shot and the sound of someone running, reminded him of a stage set. Alexis envisions the house as a stage, which causes Miss Marple to begin thinking differently about the murder.
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Tension is added to the scene because an electrical problem has caused most of the Great Hall outside Lewis's office to go dark. Walter knows how to fix the overloaded fuse, so he leaves the room to fix it and then rejoins the group. While Edgar Lawson is ranting to Lewis, the family hear shots and
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The rest of the household is held entranced by hearing a scene that plays out behind the locked door of Lewis
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When confronted by the police, Lawson flees the house, jumping into an old boat to cross a lake on the property. The boat begins to sink, so Lewis
Serrocold jumps into the lake to rescue his son. Both are caught in the weeds lining the lake and drown before the police can reach them. The scene of
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poisoning was a ruse created by Lewis. The real reason for Christian Gulbrandsen's visit was that he had learned that Lewis was embezzling from the Gulbrandsen Trust. The reader also learns that Edgar Lawson was only pretending to be schizophrenic; he really is the illegitimate son of Lewis.
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as Ruth van Rydock. The film was basically faithful to the novel, with the exception that Alexis survives the attack on his life. Also, Ruth van Rydock is present at the house when the first murder takes place and Lawson attempts to swim across the lake, and does not use a rotted boat.
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these deaths ends with Carrie Louise walking indoors with her daughter Mildred, as a new solidarity between mother and daughter is manifest. Carrie Louise's granddaughter Gina agrees to head back to America with her American husband Walter, averting a threatened separation.
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Alexis Restarick is replaced by Johnny Restarick, Steven's father and Carrie Louise's ex-husband. Rather than arriving after the murder, Johnny arrives near the end of the confrontation between Lawson and Lewis and disarms Lawson, just before Mr Gulbrandsen's murder is
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Miss Marple comments that most of the family would be pleased if Walter were found to be the killer, but Christian was not killed by Walter's gun, which was in Lawson's hand during the interval. Police find the murder weapon under some music inside the piano bench.
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feared his wife would read it and discover that the reason for Christian's visit was his fear that someone had been poisoning Carrie Louise. Lewis suggests that the poison is in her medicine, a liquid which is shown to contain arsenic.
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Edgar Lawson: one of the delinquents, arrived about a month before the story begins (after the last meeting of the board for the Gulbrandsen trust), who is often in the house and on the grounds, and who works closely with Lewis
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Christian Gulbrandsen: son of Carrie Louise's first husband, and half brother to Mildred. He is on the board of the Gulbrandsen family trust, periodically visiting at the house for meetings of the board. He is the first murder
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Miss Marple learns that Carrie Louise has experienced health problems incidental to old age. Nevertheless, Miss Marple is pleased to see that Carrie Louise is still the sweet, idealistic, and loving person she has known.
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of 30 November 1952 summed up thus: "First half is lively and the trick alibi for the murder of the stepson neat enough; there is a marked decline in sprightliness later on, but half a shot is better than no dope."
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Lewis proceeds to Christian's room, followed by Carrie Louise and Miss Marple. Alexis Restarick arrives at the house. His brother Stephen was already there, playing the piano after dinner. Then the police arrive.
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that the passage was merely a red herring, before explaining Lewis' crimes.
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2065:The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding
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795:at the Home of Agatha Christie website
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2058:The Under Dog and Other Stories
1444:The Mysterious Affair at Styles
183:, first published in the US by
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2385:Agatha and the Truth of Murder
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1493:The Mystery of the Blue Train
401:(New York), Paperback, 165 pp
2072:Double Sin and Other Stories
1850:By the Pricking of My Thumbs
1535:Murder on the Orient Express
1361:Tommy and Tuppence Beresford
1061:Double Sin and Other Stories
539:as Carrie-Louise Serrocold,
2174:Witness for the Prosecution
1479:The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
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1605:Hercule Poirot's Christmas
1542:Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
1507:The Murder at the Vicarage
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2139:And Then There Were None
2016:Parker Pyne Investigates
1633:One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
1619:And Then There Were None
1200:Agatha Christie's Marple
741:Barnard, Robert (1990).
670:Marcus, J S (May 2007).
573:as Lewis Serrocold, and
558:Agatha Christie's Marple
179:novel by British writer
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2271:Butter in a Lordly Dish
2037:The Labours of Hercules
1947:A Daughter's a Daughter
1738:They Do It with Mirrors
1654:The Body in the Library
1500:The Seven Dials Mystery
1458:The Murder on the Links
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952:They Do It with Mirrors
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161:A Daughter's a Daughter
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1988:The Mysterious Mr Quin
1878:Elephants Can Remember
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1682:Death Comes as the End
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1472:The Secret of Chimneys
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1794:Cat Among the Pigeons
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1514:The Sittaford Mystery
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1752:A Pocket Full of Rye
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1974:Poirot Investigates
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1556:Death in the Clouds
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1159:A Caribbean Mystery
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984:A Caribbean Mystery
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477:Margaret Rutherford
450:Murder With Mirrors
428:, Paperback, 187 pp
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190:Murder with Mirrors
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1829:At Bertram's Hotel
1731:Mrs McGinty's Dead
1703:Taken at the Flood
1640:Evil Under the Sun
1577:Cards on the Table
1563:The A.B.C. Murders
1521:Peril at End House
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992:At Bertram's Hotel
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195:Collins Crime Club
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2195:Verdict
1892:Curtain
1871:Nemesis
1647:N or M?
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525:series
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1064:(1961)
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1048:(1950)
1040:(1939)
1032:(1932)
1011:(1976)
1003:(1971)
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939:(1942)
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397:1954,
308:there.
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63:Author
2317:Poems
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135:Pages
93:Crime
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201:and
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523:BBC
352:of
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715:^
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