First broadcast 15th February 1987.

'It occurs to me that Miss Temple must have thought someone in Abbey Ducis was going to tell her something. Either that person was her attacker, or there is somebody else in this business we know nothing about.'

Miss Marple: Joan Hickson
Elizabeth Temple: Helen Cherry
Madge: Joanna Hole
Country policeman: Jonathan Stephens
Professor Wanstead: John Horsley
Anthea Bradbury-Scott: Anna Cropper
Lavinia Glynne: Valerie Lush
Clothilde Bradbury-Scott: Margaret Tyzack
Miss Cooke: Jane Booker
Miss Barrow: Alison Skilbeck
Lionel Peel: Peter Tilbury
Michael Rafiel: Bruce Payne
Archdeacon Brabazon: Peter Copley
Golden Boar receptionist: Diana Agnew
Mrs Brent: Liz Fraser
Mrs Trollope: Marlene Sidaway
Mr Hallowes: Reginald Stewart
Mr Broadribb: Roger Hammond
Mr Schuster: Patrick Godfrey
Miss Wimpole: Ann Queensberry
Mr Pelham: Roger Booth