
Dead Man's Folly(1986)
During a murder hunt game at a country house, to which Hercule Poirot is invited as an "expert", a real murder occurs.


Faced with two false confessions and numerous suspects after a despised civil magistrate is found shot in the local vicarage, Detective Inspector Slack reluctantly accepts help from Miss Marple.

Joan Hickson
Miss Marple

Polly Adams
Ann Protheroe

Cheryl Campbell
Griselda Clement

Rosalie Crutchley
Mrs. Price-Ridley

Paul Eddington
Rev Leonard Clement
Rachael Weaver
Mary Wright

David Horovitch
Det Inspector Slack

Tara MacGowran
Lettice Protheroe
James Hazeldine
Lawrence Redding

Ian Brimble
Det Sgt Lake
Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage is a mystery, drama, crime, tv movie film released in 1986 exploring themes of based on novel or book, detective. Directed by Julian Amyes, it stars Joan Hickson, Polly Adams, Cheryl Campbell. Faced with two false confessions and numerous suspects after a despised civil magistrate is found shot in the local vicarage, Detective Inspector Slack reluctantly accepts help from Miss Marple.
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