I thought this adaptation featured fine performances from a cast led by the always superb Geraldine McEwan.

All three also discover that the murdered woman may have been Gwenda's stepmother, Helen Marsden Halliday. Along with Miss Marple and Hugh, Gwenda realizes she may have witnessed a murder when she was a child living in Dillmouth. During one of the play's climatic scenes, Gwenda screams in terror, as she remembers witnessing a pair of hands strangling a woman. Gwenda and Hugh meet with Miss Marple at a local theater showing the John Webster play, 'The Duchess of Malfi'. Hugh suggests she speak to an old acquaintance of his, Miss Jane Marple of St. While workmen set about repairing the house, Gwenda realizes that it seems familiar to her. Accompanied by Giles' assistant, Hugh Hornbeam, Gwenda finds a house in Dillmouth, a town on the south coast of England. Nineteen years later, a recently engaged Gwenda Halliday returns to England in order to find a home where she and her future husband Giles, who is a wealthy businessman living in India, can live. The widower returns home to England with his three year-old daughter Gwenda and meets one Helen Marsden, a singer with a troupe of music performers known as 'The Funnybones'. 'SLEEPING MURDER' begins in 1933 India, where British diplomat Kelvin Halliday receives news that his wife Claire had just been killed in a traffic accident. Just recently, I watched a DVD copy of the 2006 television movie that featured Geraldine McEwan as Miss Jane Marple. The novel produced two television adaptations and a radio version. I never warmed up to the 1975 novel, but I became a fan of the latter one. During the early 1970s, the author authorized the publication of 'Curtain' for 1975 and 'Sleeping Murder' for 1976. Christie wrote both novels and placed them in a bank vault, in case she failed to survive the Blitz. In fact, she did the same for the 1975 Hercule Poirot novel, 'Curtain'. In fact, it is such a big favorite of mine that when I learned about the recent 2006 adaptation that aired on Britain's ITV network, I made a great effort to find it on DVD.Īlthough the 1976 novel proved to be the last Christie novel featuring elderly sleuth, Miss Jane Marple, the author wrote it during the early years of World War II. The 1976 novel, 'Sleeping Murder' is one of my favorites written by mystery writer, Agatha Christie.

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