History Series / Marple

** Similarly, ''The Pale Horse'' has an old friend, Father Gorman murdered. As she wraps things up, she dresses down the {{Smug Snake}} culprit's incompetence and wickedness so viciously ([[OOCIsSeriousBusiness just barely avoiding raising her voice in anger]]) that they have to be [[LetMeAtHim dragged away practically frothing at the mouth.]]

** Two characters from ''Literature/TheSittafordMystery'' swap surnames: Charles Enderby and John Burnaby become Charles Burnaby and John Enderby.[[spoiler: With the change in the murderer's identity, this name change serves to retain the novel's association of the surname Burnaby with the guilty party.]] Also, Trevelyan's first name is changed from Joseph to Clive.

* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: Colonel Melchett, in ''Literature/TheBodyInTheLibrary'', has a much more jumpy and bombastic personality that would be more fitting for Inspector Slack.

* CastTheExpert: In ''Literature/TowardsZero'', the tennis player who Neville Strange loses to in the opening few minutes was played by none other than former US Open finalist and top 5 tennis player Greg Rusedski.

* DeathByAdaptation: In ''Literature/TheSittafordMystery'', the killer (who was not the killer in the original novel) commits suicide after being unmasked.

* HistoricalDomainCharacter: UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill has a cameo in ''Literature/TheSittafordMystery'', played by Creator/RobertHardy.

* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:Harold Crackenthorpe]] in ''4:50 from Paddington''.

* YoungerAndHipper: Hinch and Murgatroyd in the adaptation of ''A Murder Is Announced''.

''Marple'' (stylized as ''Agatha Christie: Marple'' or ''Agatha Christie's Marple'') is a TV series featuring the amateur detective Literature/MissMarple created by Creator/AgathaChristie. The series is made by Creator/{{ITV}}, and has aired six seasons of 3-4 movie-length episodes from 2004 to 2014. [=Geraldine McEwan=] played Miss Marple in the first three seasons, succeeded by [=Julia McKenzie=] in the remaining three.

** ''Literature/TheBodyInTheLibrary'': The ''Agatha Christie's Marple'' version of Mark Gaskell is a lot more sympathetic than the book counterpart. For one, the death of his wife seem to affect him more greatly in the adaptation than it did in the books. This particular adaptation also turns him into a former RAF soldier who fought in WWII, and there are several hints that he's suffering from [[ShellShockedVeteran shell-shock]] and SurvivorGuilt (because two of his best friends were killed during the war), which turns him into a gambling addict. [[spoiler:The fact that he's innocent of the crime he committed in the original books just ramps up his misery even further]].

** ''A Murder is Announced'' turns the happy relationship of Mrs Swettenham and her son into a creepy possessive one, removes the son's mild love story and adds an angsty one between the mother and an alcoholic colonel. Mitzi's attention-seeking histrionics are replaced with quiet contempt and bitterness, to the point of completely eliminating her role as comic relief.

** In the novel ''Literature/TheBodyInTheLibrary'', Mark Gaskell is an unscrupulous gambler and has a generally unpleasant personality. In the 2004 adaptation, he's still a gambler, and is [[BrutalHonesty brutally honest]], but he's otherwise a very nice person, shows great respect to Miss Marple, and is a former war hero. [[spoiler:He's also ''not'' the murderer in this continuity.]]

* AdaptationalNiceGuy: The killer in ''4:50 from Paddington'' is much more sympathetic than in the original novel. [[spoiler:Here, his motive is his love for Emma, and not his desire for the Crackenthorpe fortune.]]

** In ''Sleeping Murder'', Helen Kennedy Halliday goes from a nice young lady who's only crime is [[spoiler: being so beautiful that her own half-brother falls in love with her]] to being [[spoiler: a jewel thief living under a false identity. However, it's hinted that both were part of her efforts to escape said half-brother.]]

** The adaptation of ''Literature/TheBodyInTheLibrary'' removes two of the "detectives" involved in the case -- Inspector Slack and Sir Henry Clithering -- presumably to keep the spotlight more focused on Miss Marple. Hugo [=McLean=], Adelaide's admirer, is also ommitted.

** Gwenda Vaughn in ''Ordeal by Innocence''. At the start of the episode, she's radiantly happy about marrying the man she's silently loved for years and becoming part of a real family at last, and excitedly inviting her former employer Miss Marple to her wedding. By three-quarters of the way through [[spoiler:her wedding has been cancelled -- the day before, no less -- and her new family has flipped on a dime to consider her guilty of murder, though no one's actually come out and said it, which probably makes it even worse. It's heavily implied that she would have committed suicide if she hadn't been [[DeceasedFallGuyGambit murdered instead.]] ]]

* BuryYourGays: Even considering this is a murder mystery, survival rate of characters who get an [[AdaptationalSexuality adaptational sexuality change/confirmation]] is astonishingly low. Aside from PsychoLesbian murderers who will presumably be hanged for their crime, there's [[spoiler:Colonel Appleton]] from ''Literature/TheMovingFinger'' ([[{{Gayngst}} committed suicide over a forbidden relationship]]), Robbie from ''Endless Night'' (dying of an illness), [[spoiler:Miss Murgatroyd]] from ''A Murder is Announced'' (killed after realising the murderer's identity).

* CastTheExpert: In Literature/TowardsZero the tennis player who Neville Strange loses to in the opening few minutes was played by none other than former US Open finalist and top 5 tennis player Greg Rusedski
* ConspicuousGloves: In ''Literature/TowardsZero'', a character named Thomas Royd (played by Julian Sands) wears a glove on his useless right hand. He's asked about it at a dinner, and he explains that he got caught in a doorway during an earthquake when he was a child.

* GoldDigger: Implied for Emily Trefusis in this adaptation of ''Literature/TheSittafordMystery''. Not only did she break off an engagement to Marple's nephew Raymond in order to get together with the James Pearson (who she only knew thanks to Raymond introducing the two of them in the first place), but the end of the story has her [[spoiler:reject the now disinherited James's proposal in order to go jetting off the Buenos Aires with the newly minted (and newly rich) Mrs Trevelyan. Though in fairness, James was a useless spendthrift drunk and she could have just as easily come to her senses and realized that he'd be a terrible husband with or without money.]]

* MythologyGag: Near the end of ''Literature/TheSittafordMystery'', James Pearson demands the chance to make a confession to Major Enderby - that ''he'' was the one who manipulated the glass during the séance to proclaim that Trevelyan would die that night. The Major's complete incredulity that ''this'' is what Pearson sees as a important confession becomes hilarious when you realise that, in the novel, the Major was the one who messed with the séance, and that interfering with it in the first place played a vital part in [[spoiler:his plot to murder Trevelyan.]]

** In ''Sleeping Murder'', Gwenda Halliday/Reed's husband becomes a fiancee who [[TheGhost never actually appears]]. Instead, CanonForeigner Hugh becomes her confidant and aide in the investigation, and at the end of the episode she becomes engaged to him instead.

* GoldDigger: Emily Trefusis in this adaptation of ''Literature/TheSittafordMystery''. Not only did she break off an engagement to Marple's nephew Raymond in order to get together with the James Pearson (who she only knew thanks to Raymond introducing the two of them in the first place), but the end of the story has her [[spoiler:reject the now disinherited James's proposal in order to go jetting off the Buenos Aires with the newly minted (and newly rich) Mrs Trevelyan.]]

* NobodyOver50IsGay: Averted with the Misses Hinchcliffe and Murgatroyd in ''Literature/AMurderIsAnnounced''; the adaptation makes their pairing much more explicit than the novel did.

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** The adaptation of ''Literature/TheSittafordMystery'' similarly made an extraordinary number of changes to the novel, altering the murder motive, the identity of the murderer, the characters' personalities, backstories, situations and relationship dynamics, the whole atmosphere, and adding {{Canon Foreigner}}s including an appearance of Winston Churchill.

* GoldDigger: Emily Trefusis. Not only did she break off an engagement to Marple's nephew Raymond in order to get together with the James Pearson (who she only knew thanks to Raymond introducing the two of them in the first place), but the end of the ''Literature/TheSittafordMystery'' has her [[spoiler:reject the now disinherited James's proposal in order to go jetting off the Buenos Aires with the newly minted (and newly rich) Mrs Trevelyan.]]

** The adaptation of ''Literature/TheSittafordMystery'' similarly made an extraordinary number of changes to the novel, altering the murder motive, the identity of the murderer, the characters' personalities, backstories, situations and relationship dynamics, the whole atmosphere, and adding CanonForeigners including an appearance of Winston Churchill.

** In ''Literature/AtBertramsHotel'', [[spoiler: Elvira]] is desperate for money in order to marry a [[GoldDigger dashing racecar driver]]; in the episode she's a closeted lesbian, and needs the money [[spoiler: to take care of her partially crippled lover.]]

* MythologyGag: Near the end of ''Literature/TheSittafordMystery'', James Pearson demands the chance to make a confession to Major Enderby - that 'he'' was the one who manipulated the glass during the séance to proclaim that Trevelyan would die that night. The Major's complete incredulity that ''this'' is what Pearson sees as a important confession becomes hilarious when you realise that, in the novel, the Major was the one who messed with the séance, and that interfering with it in the first place played a vital part in [[spoiler:his plot to murder Trevelyan.]]

* ItsPersonal:

* MonochromeApparition: In the adaptation of ''Literature/TheSittafordMystery'', the ghost of murder victim Clive Trevelyan appears in shades of bluish grey at the end of the episode.

** In ''Literature/AMurderIsAnnounced'', [[spoiler:it's left ambiguous whether Patrick gets the girl]]. In the original novel, he doesn't.

** ''Literature/AtBertramsHotel'' adds numerous plot-relevant characters: an inspector, a maid who becomes Miss Marple's assistant, a maid who blackmails the killer, a solicitor, a fashion designer, identical twin thieves, a singer and her friend Music/LouisArmstrong.

* AdaptationalComicRelief: Inverted in ''A Murder Is Announced''; Mitzi is toned down considerably.

* AdaptationalIntelligence: In ''A Murder Is Announced'', Bunny is still noticeably scattered, but a lot less so than other adaptations and the book.
* AdaptationalJerkass: In ''A Murder Is Announced'', Edmund Swettenham is an altogether more bitter and unpleasant boy than in the book, and resentful of his mother's relationship. It doesn't help that his [[spoiler:clever plot with Inspector Craddock]] and his tender relationship with [[spoiler:Phillipa Haymes]] are taken out.

* AdaptationalNationality: Mitzi in ''A Murder Is Announced''. The book implies she is a German Jew; the 2005 ''Marple'' version implies she is from Nazi-occupied Poland.

* AdaptationalWimp: In ''A Murder Is Announced'', there is no mention of Edmund finally getting published, as he did in the book; he remains stuck in the stereotype of "useless rich boy with writing hobby".

* CouldntFindALighter: In ''A Murder Is Announced'', Patrick lights his cigarette from the candles on a birthday cake.

** In ''AMurderIsAnnounced'', [[spoiler:it's left ambiguous whether Patrick gets the girl]]. In the original novel, he doesn't.

# "The Body in the Library"
# "The Murder at the Vicarage"

# "A Murder Is Announced"

# "The Moving Finger"

# "The Sittaford Mystery"

# "At Bertram's Hotel"

# "Towards Zero"

# "The Blue Geranium"
# "The Mirror Crack'd From Side to Side"

# "A Caribbean Mystery"

** ''The Body in the Library'': The ''Agatha Christie's Marple'' version of Mark Gaskell is a lot more sympathetic than the book counterpart. For one, the death of his wife seem to affect him more greatly in the adaptation than it did in the books. This particular adaptation also turns him into a former RAF soldier who fought in WWII, and there are several hints that he's suffering from [[ShellShockedVeteran shell-shock]] and SurvivorGuilt (because two of his best friends were killed during the war), which turns him into a gambling addict. [[spoiler:The fact that he's innocent of the crime he committed in the original books just ramps up his misery even further]].
** ''The Moving Finger'' has an old military man commit suicide because of his taboo sexual orientation (unclear whether gay or bisexual), and turned Jerry's injuries into self-inflicted ones from a failed suicide.

** Two characters from ''The Sittaford Mystery'' swap surnames: Charles Enderby and John Burnaby become Charles Burnaby and John Enderby.[[spoiler: With the change in the murderer's identity, this name change serves to retain the novel's association of the surname Burnaby with the guilty party.]] Also, Trevelyan's first name is changed from Joseph to Clive.

* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: Colonel Melchett, in ''The Body in the Library'', has a much more jumpy and bombastic personality that would be more fitting for Inspector Slack.

** In ''A Murder Is Announced'', [[spoiler:Mitzi tries to kill Miss Blacklock in righteous outrage during the SummationGathering.]]
** In ''The Sittaford Mystery'', [[spoiler:Charles Enderby, renamed Charles Burnaby,]] was innocent in the book but is the murderer of Trevelyan in this adaptation. Trevelyan himself is given a sordid backstory involving killing a man and seducing and abandoning his sister, something not present in the novel.

** The adaptation of ''The Body in the Library'' removes two of the "detectives" involved in the case -- Inspector Slack and Sir Henry Clithering -- presumably to keep the spotlight more focused on Miss Marple. Hugo [=McLean=], Adelaide's admirer, is also ommitted.
** The adaptation of ''The Mirror Crack'd From Side to Side'' removes Marina's butler Giuseppe.

* AntagonisticOffspring: In ''The Sittaford Mystery'', [[spoiler:Charles Burnaby]] is revealed to be the biological child of Trevelyan, and harbours hatred for him on account of his past sins.
* AwkwardKiss: Between Jerry Burton and Elsie Holland in ''The Moving Finger''.
* BadHabits: Canon Pennyfather in ''At Bertram's Hotel'' turns out to be a Nazi war criminal.
* BettyAndVeronica: In ''The Moving Finger'', the quirky Megan Hunter is the Betty to the elegant and drop dead gorgeous Elsie Holland's Veronica.
* {{Blackmail}}: Attempted by Ella in ''The Mirror Crack'd From Side to Side''. [[spoiler:She calls up people left right and center to tell them she saw them poison Heather's drink. She eventually reaches the correct person, and gets killed for her pains.]]
* {{Bookends}}: The opening shot of ''The Murder at the Vicarage'' scans across Miss Marple's dressing table; among the items is a copy of Creator/RaymondChandler's ''The Simple Art of Murder''. The final shot is another scan of her dressing table after an [[TimeSkip unspecified time has passed]]; Miss Marple has moved on to Chandler's ''Literature/FarewellMyLovely''.

** In ''The Body in the Library'', this happens to Peter Carmody when [[spoiler:his mother, who got an AdaptationalVillainy, was arrested for the murder of Ruby Keene and Pamela Reeves]], and his usual cheerful and enthusiastic demeanour was replaced by a blank look of despair when the case was closed.

* BrickJoke: In ''The Murder at the Vicarage'' adaptation. In his first interview with Miss Marple, Inspector Slack asks whether she is hard of hearing, and she replies it's excellent. After the inquest a week or so later, Miss Marple is hobbling away (she's walking with a cane due to a sprained ankle) and Inspector Slack mutters to his constable that (thanks to her being the LittleOldLadyInvestigates) he doesn't know whether to give Miss Marple a box of chocolates or kick away her walking stick. From across the parking lot, Miss Marple calls over her shoulder, 'I'd prefer the chocolates.'
* BungledSuicide: The backstory behind Jerry's injuries in ''The Moving Finger''.
* BuryYourGays: Even considering this is a murder mystery, survival rate of characters who get an [[AdaptationalSexuality adaptational sexuality change/confirmation]] is astonishingly low. Aside from PsychoLesbian murderers who will presumably be hanged for their crime, there's [[spoiler:Colonel Appleton]] from ''The Moving Finger'' ([[{{Gayngst}} committed suicide over a forbidden relationship]]), Robbie from ''Endless Night'' (dying of an illness), [[spoiler:Miss Murgatroyd]] from ''A Murder is Announced'' (killed after realising the murderer's identity).
* TheCameo: Creator/RobertHardy appears in an early scene of ''The Sittaford Mystery'' as UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill.

* ConspicuousGloves: In ''Towards Zero'', a character named Thomas Royd (played by Julian Sands) wears a glove on his useless right hand. He's asked about it at a dinner, and he explains that he got caught in a doorway during an earthquake when he was a child.

* DarkerAndEdgier: In most Miss Marple mysteries, the culprits are last seen being driven away in a police car while the titular character makes a brief remark on morality/crime/psychology. Normally, the criminal's attitude is fairly dignified, either a rueful variant of "well played, ma'am", or "I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for that meddling old woman!" This adaptation draws attention to the fact that the outcome of being found guilty of murder in this time period was ''execution''. We see several criminals panicking or shuddering in their cells, screaming, struggling and crying as they are taken to their execution, and occasionally see the execution itself. In cases where the motive was due to a love affair, we see the condemned screaming or calling out to their lover as they are taken away from the crime scene, or when they are about to be hanged.

* DeathByAdaptation: In ''The Sittaford Mystery'', the killer (who was not the killer in the original novel) commits suicide after being unmasked.
* DidNotGetTheGirl: In ''A Murder Is Announced'', [[spoiler:it's left ambiguous whether Patrick gets the girl]].

* FingerTwitchingRevival: The first indication that Jerry wasn't successful in his suicide attempt, which nicely segues into the title screen of ''The Moving Finger''.
* FootPopping: Happens during Jerry and Megan's BigDamnKiss at the end of ''The Moving Finger''.
* FrameUp: In ''The Sittaford Mystery'', James Pearson is framed by the killer for the blackmailer's murder.
* GaussianGirl: In ''The Moving Finger'' points out which woman has caught Jerry's eye by giving her a gaussian shot. The first is the beautiful Elsie Holland, though later Megan Hunter gets one when Jerry comes to the realisation that he has feelings for her.

* HistoricalDomainCharacter: UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill has a cameo in ''The Sittaford Mystery'', played by Creator/RobertHardy.
** Music/LouisArmstrong has a cameo in ''At Bertram's Hotel,'' played by Shenton Dixon.
** ''A Caribbean Mystery'' has a subplot with Miss Marple striking up an acquaintance with Creator/IanFleming, played by Jeremy Crutchley, who is suffering from writer's block. [[spoiler: James Bond also appears -- that is, the real-life ornithologist whose name would prove influential to Fleming.]]

* ItIsPronouncedTroPAY: Lettice in the ITV version of ''Murder at the Vicarage'' would like to make it clear that her name is ''not'' pronounced the same way as the vegetable.

** Not overtly, but in ''A Murder Is Announced'', when [[spoiler:Murgatroyd is killed]], Marple is visibly devastated and in HeroicBSOD mode in the scene immediately following. During the SummationGathering, she is reminiscent of a shark.

* NeverOneMurder: In ''The Sittaford Mystery'', the murderer kills a blackmailing witness.
* NobodyOver50IsGay: Averted with the Misses Hinchcliffe and Murgatroyd in ''A Murder is Announced''; the adaptation makes their pairing much more explicit than the novel did.

* NotWhatItLooksLike: From an audience perspective. In ''A Murder Is Announced'', [[spoiler:Patrick and Emma kiss]] long before it's explained, or even hinted at, that [[spoiler:she ''is'' Emma, not Julia]].
* OneSteveLimit: Averted in ''The Sittaford Mystery''. Violet Willett shares her first name with Violet Hopkins, the woman Trevelyan had a relationship with years ago. Lampshaded. Becomes a relevant plot point, as [[spoiler:Trevelyan thought he found his "second chance of happiness" in Violet Willett and the two are secretly married.]]

** In the adaptation of ''The Sittaford Mystery'', Emily requites Charles' love early on, and the two begin a romantic relationship. [[spoiler:At least until he is revealed as the murderer, to Emily's horror, subverting the trope.]]
** Inverted in ''A Murder Is Announced'' -- Philippa and Edmund's relationship is completely taken out.

* ShellShockedVeteran: Jerry Burton in ''The Moving Finger'', to paraphrase his sister, came through the war with flying colours yet seems to find the peace utterly crushing.

* SignificantWardrobeShift: Megan Hunter in ''The Moving Finger'', who starts off wearing outfits more suited to a schoolgirl than a woman of 20 and gradually adopts a sleeker, more modern look over the course of the film. While this change symbolises her growing up in the wake of her mother's death, it also coincides with her moving from 'oddball friend' to LoveInterest in Jerry's eyes.

* StartsWithASuicide: ''The Moving Finger'' has this twice over - first there's the suicide of Colonel Appleton, which is immediately followed by Jerry's unsuccessful attempt.

* SummationGathering: In ''A Murder Is Announced''.
* SurvivorGuilt: Mark Gaskell in ''The Body in the Library''. He's best friends with Mike Carmody (Adelaide's first husband), who died in the war, and Frank Jefferson (Addie's second husband), who was killed in a missile attack along with Mark's own wife Rosamund. In his conversation with Miss Marple, he reflected how it was wrong for Mike to die first before he could see his unborn child, and expresses regret that he didn't show as much affection towards his wife as he ought to have done. He also felt that his father-in-law resented him for being the one who "pulled through". [[spoiler: It's implied at the end, when he promises Peter, "I'll take care of you" after his mother is arrested, that it might be the making of him; he's finally found a reason to live, and an answer to the question 'why was I spared?': to look after his friend's son.]]
* SympatheticMurderer: Par for the course of ''Marple'' adaptations, with Marple herself often lamenting over their motives or guilt when finding them out. Even during the rather personal case in ''A Murder Is Announced'' she expects rather ruefully that [[spoiler: Charlotte Blacklock didn't enjoy murdering her friend Bunny. [[VillainousBSOD She didn't.]]]]
* WackyCravings: At one point in ''The Murder at the Vicarage'', Griselda Clement (the vicar's wife) asks for apricot chutney to season her fish stew, from which Miss Marple deduces that Griselda is pregnant.

** ''Literature/AtBertramsHotel'' adds numerous plot-relevant characters: an inspector, a maid who becomes Miss Marple's assistant, a maid who blackmails the killer, a solicitor, a fashion designer, identical twin thieves, a singer and her friend Creator/LouisArmstrong.

** Creator/LouisArmstrong has a cameo in ''At Bertram's Hotel,'' played by Shenton Dixon.

** ''At Bertram's Hotel'' has a band of bored thieves becoming avengers of the Holocaust and a greedy teenager in love with a dashing racing driver becoming [[spoiler: a closeted lesbian racked with guilt over persuading her beloved girl to go for a swim in the river (where Elvira ended up ''not'' swimming with her), where she caught polio and was left with a paralysed arm.]]

* AdaptationalNiceGuy: The killer in ''4:50 from Paddington'' is much more sympathetic than in the original novel. [[spoiler:Here, his motive is genuinely his love for Emma, and not his desire for the Crackenthorpe fortune.]]

** In ''Literature/AtBertramsHotel'', [[spoiler: Elvira]] is desperate for money in order to marry a [[GoldDigger dashing racecar driver]], in the episode she's a closeted lesbian, and needs the money [[spoiler: to take care of her partially crippled lover.]]

** Of the twenty-one episodes, ''Miss Marple herself'' doesn't appear in nine of the books they're based on; given that "The Blue Geranium" and "Greenshaw's Folly" were both adapted successfully, it begs the question as to why more of the Marple short stories weren't adapted instead.

* DeadAnimalWarning: In ''Endless Night'', Eliie discovers a dead bird with a threatening message pinned to it on her doorstep as part of a campaign of harassment aimed at her.

** Louie Armstrong has a cameo in ''At Bertram's Hotel,'' played by Shenton Dixon.

** In ''A Murder Is Announced'', [[spoiler:Mitzi tries to kill Miss Blacklock in righteous outrage during the SummationGathering.]] Also, although not actually villainous, Edmund Swettenham is an altogether more bitter and unpleasant boy than in the book, and resentful of his mother's relationship. It doesn't help that his [[spoiler:clever plot with Inspector Craddock]] is taken out.

* RelatedInTheAdaptation: Eileen "Bundle" Brent and Virginia Revel the two main female characters in ''The Secret of teh Chimneys'' are sisters in the TV adaptation. In the books, Virginia was an important guest of a party hosted in Eileen's home, but the two weren't related.

** The series' adaptation of ''The Secret of Chimneys'' shares a few character names with the original source material, but pretty much everything else were changed: the relationship dynamics between the people, the identities of the victim (actually a CanonForeigner) and murderer, and even the background/setting. In fact, it might as well be an original story, since one would hardly recognise any elements from the original novel.

* GenreSavvy: Inspector Finch in ''The Secret of Chimneys,'' who's considered to be the great genius of Scotland Yard. He's heard of Miss Marple and her constant showing up of his colleagues. He's researched her thoroughly, and he brings her on during the investigation so that they can solve the murder together, instead of having her do it on her own and humiliate him.

** Louie Armstrong has a cameo in ''At Bertram's Hotel.''

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic: ''The Murder at the Vicarage'' opens with a tracking shot that ends with showing a copy of Creator/RaymondChandler's ''The Simple Art of Murder'', before the murder plot unfolds. After [[spoiler: the murderous lovers]] are executed, while Miss Marple prays at St Mary Mead church, a matching, reverse-order tracking shot closes the episode, beginning with showing a copy of Raymond Chandler's ''Literature/FarewellMyLovely''.