The Body in the Library (1984) (Episode 2)

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Part 2 of 3 of the Miss Marple mystery starring Joan Hickson. In this 2nd part, after discovering a body of a young girl in her library, Dolly Bantry and her friend Miss Marple go to stay at the hotel where the dead girl Ruby Keene worked while the police make their investigations. While there they decide to focus their attentions on all the people connected with the dead girl, including her unusual relationship with Conway Jefferson, a wealthy old man confined to a wheelchair. Meanwhile, back in St Mary Mead village, local village simpleton Malcolm has found another body in a charred car. But how does this connect to the other case? And will anyone believe him?

As well as featuring Joan Hickson in her first outing as Miss Marple, this also stars Gwen Watford, Moray Watson, David Horovitch, Ian Brimble, Andrew Cruishank, Ciaran Maddern, Trudi Styler, Keith Drinkel, Jess Conrad, Frederick Jaegar, Raymond Francis, John Moffatt, Sally Jane Jackson, Anthony Smee and Arthur Bostrum.