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The Mirror Crack'd From Side To Side
The Mirror Crack'd From Side To Side
Oct 11, 2024 12:33 PM

Author:Agatha Christie,June Whitfield,Ian Lavender,Full Cast

The Mirror Crack'd From Side To Side

After the death of her husband, Dolly Bantry sold Gossington Hall to the former film star Marina Gregg and her husband. When the glamorous couple decide to throw a benefit party for the local hospital, the grounds are thronged with curious visitors, and for one of them, the day ends in tragedy. As Marina is serving cocktails in the house, she is cornered by the excitable Heather Babcock, who chatters away about their former meeting about eleven years ago before spilling her daiquiri all over herself and Marina. Ever the gracious hostess, Marina offers her own untouched drink to Mrs Babcock - only to look on, horrified, as the lady dies in front of her. It is up to Miss Marple to find out who was really meant to take the poison that killed poor Heather Babcock. Could it be that Marina Gregg was the intended victim? If so, Miss Marple's task will not be an easy one, for the lady had an unusually large number of enemies... Agatha Christie's perplexing mystery is dramatized with a full cast including Ian Lavender, Gayle Hunnicutt and James Laurenson, with June Whitfield as Miss Marple.

Reviews

A master storyteller, one of the first to write in cinematic style with razor-sharp images moving with kinetic force

—— Newsweek

Some of his characters the murderous yet repentant Pinkie in Brighton Rock and the mockingly elusive Harry Lime in The Third Man remain so vivid in the public consciousness that they are certain of immortality

—— Daily Mail

The Fallen Idol handles themes of guilt and deception, responsibility and disappointment, with precision, reflecting these adult ideas off an innocent child

—— Time Out

[The Third Man] Graham Greene's typically laconic and mordantly witty fable of crime, deceit and betrayal

—— Simon Callow , Guardian

No serious writer of this century has more thoroughly invaded and shaped the public imagination than did Graham Greene

—— The Times

An astonishing talent

—— JEFFERY DEAVER

Intelligent and gripping

—— JAMES PATTERSON

Liza Marklund is in a league of her own

—— HENNING MANKELL

An exceptionally well-crafted and suspenseful work

—— Daily Mirror
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