6/20/2023 0 Comments Marple 4.50 from paddingtonDaniele Stroppa (credited as Daniel Steel) as James Stoddart-West. David Horovitch as Detective Inspector Slack.In the end, Miss Marple unambiguously opines that Lucy Eyelesbarrow will marry Bryan Eastley, whereas this was merely one of the possibilities suggested in the original novel. Lucy at first responds to Cedric but rejects him after she overhears Cedric's account of his adulterous affair at a hotel, his alibi for the day of the murder. Both Cedric and Bryan Eastley are interested in Lucy.Presumably this removes expense of location filming in Paris. The Ballet Maritska (changed from Maritski) is touring Britain.Miss Marple speculates at the end that Quimper might have deliberately refrained from diagnosing the illness. However he tells Emma that he is suffering from a terminal illness which he blames Quimper for failing to diagnose. There is no mass arsenic poisoning of the family.In the original, he had gone back to London and was poisoned. Harold Crackenthorpe is killed on the grounds of Rutherford Hall in what looks like an accident.The name Martine Isabelle Perrault is used here as the real name of Anna Stravinska but she has no link with Edmund Crackenthorpe at all. The Martine storyline is mostly cut out and Martine Stoddart-West does not appear at all.The adaptation features the series regular Inspector Slack and Sergeant Hay as well as Chief Inspector Duckham from Scotland Yard.
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