

Quality of film on its own: 3 and 1/2 guns. For an elderly spinster, Miss Marple sure has a lot of extremely distant relatives but no close ones who are still alive. That forced the screenwriter to come up with a different, less plausible reason for Miss Marple to arrive on the scene: like Jessica Fletcher, ITV Production demands that Miss Marple be related to just about everyone, whether it’s likely or not. You’ll get both major and minor changes, the biggest being complete rewrites of three separate relationships along with discarding the Vicar, his wife, and their cat.

A Murder is Announced Geraldine McEwan January 2005 review
