A young woman"s corpse is dumped in the library of Gossington Hall, home of Jane Marple"s friend Dolly Bantry and her husband Arthur. Pompous Chief Constable Melchett suspects a connection with Basil Blake, an arty young man who lives locally but Blake is dismissive when Melchett visits him. Then Superintendent Harper rings from the coastal town of Danemouth. Ruby Keane, a young girl employed as a dancer at the Majestic Hotel there, has gone missing, and her cousin Josie Turner identifies the corpse as Ruby"s. Ruby is in favour with millionaire Conway Jefferson, whose own son and daughter were killed in a wartime air raid, and he wants to adopt her. His son-in-law Mark Gaskell, and daughter-in-law Adelaide react variously to the news. Miss Marple is convinced that the solution to Ruby"s murder may be found at the hotel and she and Dolly book into a suite to investigate.
观影2.0。重温依旧喜欢这样的改编,所以监狱里的告白很是动人。这样的爱情其实从某种角度说也是阿婆的特色。【Because when you are in love,you think you are invincible.It blinds you,and you don't seem to care.】Geraldine奶奶是最好的马普尔小姐,没有之一。PS:David Walliams客串。
改编挺棒,即使绝不会出目下当今阿加莎笔下。“men are pigs”不是剧透?两个女人勾结杀人为何不克不及是因为相爱呢?“Because when you are in love, you think you are invincible. It blinds you, and you don't seem to care.”
Agatha Christie uses the phrase "Cophetua syndrome" in her novel The Body in the Library, to refer to the case of an elderly upper-class Englishman who becomes infatuated with a working-class girl, albeit in a fatherly rather than sexual way.