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Miss Marple: The Body in the Library: With Joan Hickson, Gwen Watford, Moray Watson, Valentine Dyall. Amateur detective Miss Jane Marple investigates the murder of a young woman whose body is found in the library at Gossington Hall, home of Colonel and Mrs. Arthur Bantry.
Apr 17, 2005 · The Body in the Library: Directed by Andy Wilson. With Geraldine McEwan, Ian Richardson, Tara Fitzgerald, Jamie Theakston. Dolly Bantry calls upon her old friend Miss Marple when the strangled corpse of an unknown blonde girl is found in the library of her home, Gossington Hall.
The 1984 television film The Body in the Library was part of the BBC series of Miss Marple, with Joan Hickson making the first of her appearances in the role of Jane Marple. The adaptation was transmitted in three parts between 26–28 December 1984, and only had a few changes made to it from the novel:
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The Body in the Library. Miss Marple. ⌸ Novel. 1942. It’s seven in the morning. The Bantrys wake to find the body of a young woman in their library. She is wearing evening dress and heavy make-up, which is now smeared across her cheeks. But who is she? How did she get there?
When the body is identified as Ruby Keene, a dance hostess at the Hotel Majestic in Danemouth, Dolly Bantry and Miss Marple head off for a short break to do a spot of sleuthing. This is a classic Christie novel and the second, full length, Miss Marple mystery, after The Murder at the Vicarage.
Amateur detective Miss Jane Marple investigates the murder of a young woman whose body is found in the library at Gossington Hall, home of Colonel and Mrs. Arthur Bantry.
