Murder with Mirrors

Helen Hayes makes her second TV appearance as Agatha Christie’s female sleuth Miss Marple in Murder with Mirrors. Marple has been summoned to the lavish country estate of her old friend Carrie Louise Serrocold (Bette Davis). Carrie’s stepson has been killed, and she fears that his won’t be the last corpse to befoul the estate. She’s right, and the game is afoot for Miss Marple once more, with a full contingent of prime suspects (including John Mills, Leo McKern and Dorothy Tutin). Murder with Mirrors was filmed on location on a genuine 13th century British estate. If Helen Hayes seems more spirited than Bette Davis (eight years Helen’s junior), it’s because Bette was seriously ill prior to and during shooting., Miss Marple has been summoned to the lavish country estate of her old friend Carrie Louise Serrocold. Carrie’s stepson has been killed, and she fears that he won’t be the last corpse to be found on the estate., Agatha Christie whodunit with Helen Hayes as sleuth Jane Marple, trying to help a kindly British blue blood (Bette Davis). John Mills, Leo McKern. Gina: Liane Langland. Markham: John Laughlin. Mildred: Dorothy Tutin. A.k.a. “Agatha Christie’s ‘Murder with Mirrors’.” Directed by Dick Lowry., No woman in all of England has a reputation quite like that of Miss Jane Marple. Scotland Yard knows her well – an obstinate, even infuriating meddler, but one who is insightful and infinitely useful when it comes to an investigation. An old friend, Christian Gulbrandsen, director of Gulbrandsen Foundation, asks Miss Marple to look in on his stepmother, Carrie Louise Serrocold, at her palatial estate, Stonygates. Carrie is in trouble, but he can’t divulge details until he joins her there the following night., Whodunnit in which an old school chum of sleuthing spinster Miss Marple becomes the target of a murderer as she battles to save her ancestral home, part of which is used as a rehabilitation centre for juvenile delinquents.