Beautiful All Along: Jerry's ongoing frustration at Megan's poor self image and aggressively down-at-heels appearance, combined with her wistful expression as she sees him off to London, results in him 'going mad' and taking her to his sister's stylist in town. This was in response to Miss Barton (a life-long village resident who knew both murder victims well) remarking that "everything really has worked out for the best"! On the other hand, the first was an emotionally abusive parent to Jerry's fiancee, Megan, and the latter was someone he'd never actually met. Symmington and Agnes, and gets over it by thinking that the former was a prudish, neurotic hypochondriac and the latter wasn't really liked by her boyfriend. Asshole Victim: Jerry has a rather striking Moral Myopia moment when he considers that the current state of affairs required the deaths of Mrs. Alliterative Family: Jerry and Joanna Burton, brother and sister. Advertised Extra: Miss Marple herself only has a handful of scenes and doesn't even appear until about the final third of the novel. 
Emily Barton, Jerry and Joanna's landlady, is the last of five sisters whose mother kept them from ever going out on their own or getting married, while blaming them for this. Megan's mother and step-father usually ignore her, and it's observed by Jerry Burton and others that Megan's presence upsets what would have been a traditional nuclear family. Given that she's an obvious target, the lack of such a letter is a clue in itself. Elsie Holland doesn't receive a letter. Mrs Symmington's poison letter was a plant, and poor Agnes figured this out when, in the process of watching for her boyfriend, she realised that nobody had come to the house to deliver mail that day. The American version cuts out much of the incidental description and character development, focussing more tightly on the mystery.Īdapted for TV in 1985 by the BBC and 2006 by ITV. One of only two Christie novels in which the American edition substantially differs in content from the original British (the other is the Poirot novel Three Act Tragedy). The title is from the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, as well as a reference to Beshazzar's Feast in the Book of Daniel. The situation takes an ugly turn when a woman commits suicide after receiving a letter, and the police move in to investigate.Ī Miss Marple novel by Agatha Christie. They are told that these anonymous "poison pen" letters have been circulating widely around the town, making various accusations that are unpleasant, but inaccurate. Just as they are getting to know some of the town's rather strange inhabitants, they receive an anonymous letter accusing them of being lovers, instead of siblings. 
Jerry and Joanna Burton, brother and sister from London society, take a country house in idyllic Lymstock so that Jerry can rest from injuries received in a wartime plane crash.
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