![]() ![]() Even before I came across Christie, as a small boy, I enjoyed the TV series No Hiding Place, in which Francis played Superintendent Lockhart, and I remember it fondly to this day, even if I can't recall any of the stories. David Horovitch is excellent as Inspector Slack, and Raymond Francis a splendid Sir Henry Clithering. We have Gwen Watford as Dolly Bantry and Moray Watson as Colonel Bantry, and that's just a start. The script is first class, and the cast is absolutely superb. But I think the convoluted plot is excellent, even allowing for the fact that it depends on a trick which would, thanks to advances in forensic science, be impossible to pull off today.īowen's version sticks pretty closely to the original - a wise decision, I think. It's always been a favourite, although it's not universally regarded as a classic Agatha Christie. The Body in the Library was one of the first detective novels I ever read as a child, and I was really impressed. Well, I can now confirm it was that good, and to me, Hickson is indeed the perfect Marple. I decided to roll back the years and watch it again, to check whether it was as good as I remembered,and whether the view I've expressed (even on breakfast TV!) that Joan Hickson was the definitive Marple was really justified. It seems hard to believe, but almost 30 years have passed since Joan Hickson was first introduced to us as Miss Marple, in a three-part adaptation for TV of The Body in the Library, by T.R. ![]()
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