Miss Marple (Joan Hickson) receives a most interesting request from Mr. Jason Rafiel (Frank Gatliff), with whom she'd struck an acquaintance some years before. He would like her to solve a crime but, does not tell her what it might be, who might have been involved or where it might have occurred. In fact, he can't be sure that a crime was committed at all. The only information she gets is a booking on a tour of stately homes and gardens so, along with her nephew and godson Lionel (Peter Tilbury), she sets off to see what she can learn. When they reach the village of Abbey Ducis, it begins to make sense. Not only did Mr. Rafiel live in the area it is also where his son Michael (Bruce Payne) was accused, though never convicted, of murdering his fiancée, Verity Hunt. Father and son were long estranged but Michael lives rough and has so ever since. There is also the apparent coincidence that another young woman, Nora Brent (Liz Fraser), went missing at the same time as Verity and was last being seen in Michael Rafiel's car. When Elizabeth Temple (Helen Cherry), a fellow...
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