miss marple the moving finger geraldine mcewan

The entire plotline about moving the terrace steps, burying the body under the new construction and being observed by Leonie is missing. The body of Helen/Clare was buried under a cliffside tree which Kennedy had earlier told Gwenda was his favourite place.Faced with these revelations, Kennedy simply confesses and is arrested.She then travelled to Dillmouth and jointed the Funnybones troupe as Helen Marsden. Clare was a jewel thief in India and staged her death in a fake car accident to evade the police. In this adaptation it transpires that Clare Halliday and Helen Marsden were actually the same person.Before that, Miss Marple and Hornbeam make some calls to India for some background information. Here Miss Marple arranges a denouement with everyone and reveals the whole story. There is no climactic scene where Kennedy attempts to kill Gwenda.She reads an advertisement, writes to Dr Kennedy, they arranged to meet at Kennedy's house but is murdered along the way. The segment involving Lily Tutt (Lily Kimble is her maiden name here) is fairly similar.Most of the suspects here are members of the Funnybones troupe. He also accompanies Gwenda to various interviews.

When Gwenda wants to pursue the mystery of Helen, Hornbeam is the one who calls in Miss Marple.

There is an additional character Hugh Hornbeam who is assigned by Vanstone's company to welcome Gwenda and help her with her wedding preparations.

Halliday apparently committed suicide and his body was found at the foot of a cliff.

Helen and Halliday were engaged to be married but she never turned up on the day of the wedding.

He is not related to Helen who in this case is an entertainer with a company of of itinerant artistes 'The Funny Bones' who do not exist in the novel. Kennedy is the brother of Clare, while in the novel is the half-brother of Helen.Clare apparently died in a car accident in India. Gwenda's mother is Clare while in the novel it is Megan.However in this case, the line about 'cover her face' is not heard in the play nor in her flashback, nor does the flashback involve someone with hands like monkey paws. At the scene where someone strangles the duchess she gets the flashback to someone strangling Helen at Hillside. She goes to watch The Duchess of Malfi at Dillmouth Theatre. Here Gwenda is not yet married but engaged to Charles Vanstone (i.e.Raymond and Joan West, the nephew of Miss Marple that invite Gwenda in London, are absent in the episode.The main premise of the original novel is retained but the backstories of most of the main characters have been changed as have the relationships between some of them.

Miss marple the moving finger geraldine mcewan