geraldine mcewan marple the body in the library

How delicious: a body found in her own library! A murder for her friend to solve! But in the end, she solves the murder, and proves all the male police wrong, so there! Then there's her friend Dolly Bantry, who is thrilled to have found a corpse in her library. As she seems so odd, few people initially respect her. Of course there's Miss Marple, who dresses in dowdy clothes and mumbles strange phrases that no one understands. One thing I noted in the TV story was how many strong female character there were. Ms McEwan must have agreed, for she left the series after playing the character for a mere two years. I've loved Geraldine McEwan's work ever since I saw her playing Lucia in a London Weekend Television production of 'Mapp And Lucia,' and also as reclusive Miss Farnaby in the Fantasy Sitcom 'Mulberry.' In many ways, she seemed a perfect fit for the character of Miss Marple, but I always had trouble seeing her as that character.

You can get hold of The Body in the Library via the following links.Recently, I watched a TV adaptation of the Agatha Christie story 'The Body in the Library.' This production featured Geraldine McEwan as Miss Marple, and the vivacious Joanne Lumley as her friend Dolly Bantry. Miss Marple’s investigations lead her to the Majestic Hotel in the seaside town of Danemouth and she (and Mrs Bantry) take up residence there among a motley collection of possible suspects.Īgatha Christie pulls the wool well over our eyes in this clever story starting with an ingenious piece of mis-direction and anyone who arrives at the correct solution on first reading has my admiration – I didn’t.īy the way, avoid at all costs the Geraldine McEwan version of this story – it’s dreadful! Joan Hickson’s is, like all the others in this series, superb. Neither Colonel nor Mrs Bantry admit to having any idea who the young women is or how she got into their home, and Mrs Bantry’s first action is to call in her good friend Miss Marple – smart thinking! The Bantrys are both highly respectable and well respected people and the presence of the body of a heavily made-up bottle blonde sprawled across a bearskin rug in front of their library fireplace seemed, to say the least, incongruous. The crime takes place at Gossington Hall, the home of Colonel and Mrs Bantry who feature in several Miss Marple stories.

The Body in the Library is a vintage Miss Marple murder mystery.

Geraldine mcewan marple the body in the library