0:01:26 > 0:01:30It's too ridiculous! I haven't been
0:01:30 > 0:01:33Now, instead of doing whatever it is
0:01:33 > 0:01:37here I am, sleuthing like mad, trying to clear my husband's name.
0:01:44 > 0:01:49a perfectly strange young girl was found dead in our library?
0:01:51 > 0:01:55at a five-star seaside hotel.
0:02:02 > 0:02:05Ah. Well, then. I'll be quiet.
0:02:19 > 0:02:23Oh, I don't know. I just wondered...
0:02:41 > 0:02:43MAN: I suppose the key to it all
0:02:43 > 0:02:47was that eight years of mourning
0:02:48 > 0:02:50I've only just realised it.
0:02:55 > 0:03:00little this holiday, then I doubt...
0:03:04 > 0:03:06VOICE BREAKING: Poor little Ruby.
0:03:13 > 0:03:16Yes, I'm sorry, Mr Jefferson.
0:03:16 > 0:03:21We policeman can rarely leave
0:03:21 > 0:03:24But I want to help, Chief Constable.
0:03:28 > 0:03:31eight years ago in the plane crash, you lost not only your wife
0:03:41 > 0:03:45Yes. We were very much thrown
0:04:08 > 0:04:15If you'll excuse me, Colonel. I ought to find my son, Peter.
0:04:31 > 0:04:35of Mrs Jefferson and Mark Gaskell?
0:04:35 > 0:04:40They weren't tremendously pleased, but they took it all right. Was that the reaction you expected?
0:04:46 > 0:04:50I had made healthy provision for both of them when they married
0:04:50 > 0:04:54Yes? So I didn't expect them
0:04:59 > 0:05:03But we'd shared a lot, don't forget.
0:05:04 > 0:05:08And they had no blood claim on me.
0:05:10 > 0:05:13you were going to leave her?
0:05:15 > 0:05:18They'd have made educated guesses.
0:05:29 > 0:05:34I don't envy you trying to prove
0:05:48 > 0:05:53I want my lunch! Oh, yes. Of course you do, dear. You run along.
0:05:57 > 0:06:01Oh, come along, Jane. Are you going
0:06:01 > 0:06:04I'm sorry? Well, for heaven's sake!
0:06:04 > 0:06:08Who strangled Ruby Keene and why did they leave her body in our library?
0:06:10 > 0:06:14Isn't that what you've been thinking about? Well, not really.
0:06:14 > 0:06:18Yes. Of course, it's obvious
0:06:40 > 0:06:44MAN: ..my direct line for HQ.
0:06:44 > 0:06:48Inspector Slack's table there. Back-up tables here. Get on with it.
0:06:48 > 0:06:51Got you. Ah, yes. Mr Bartlett.
0:06:51 > 0:06:58Ruby Keene seemed happy enough
0:06:58 > 0:07:01I dance quite decently, you know.
0:07:01 > 0:07:07You finished dancing when? Gosh, sorry. Couldn't say.
0:07:07 > 0:07:32What did you do after you stopped dancing? You know how it is.
0:07:32 > 0:07:35Could have been anything, really.
0:07:35 > 0:07:38Usually drink after waggling a leg.
0:07:38 > 0:07:51and strolled about outside.
0:07:54 > 0:07:58Sorry, I reported it to the chaps at the station at Thingummy Road.
0:08:00 > 0:08:04intelligent than those chaps.
0:08:07 > 0:08:10Ours is a murder inquiry. Oh, yah.
0:08:53 > 0:08:57Not at all. We need to estab...
0:09:12 > 0:09:16We need to establish the actual times of your cousin's movements.
0:09:16 > 0:09:19And, of course, the movements of others involved. Yes, of course.
0:09:19 > 0:09:22You said in your previous statement
0:09:22 > 0:09:25that she did her exhibition dance
0:09:57 > 0:10:00Sorry, sorry. Writing letters.
0:10:00 > 0:10:03Ruby's just starting to dance.
0:11:16 > 0:11:20Just after that, Ray came over
0:11:35 > 0:11:37Josie, Ruby hasn't turned up.
0:11:39 > 0:11:45She was dancing with poor little rich boy... George Bartlett hasn't seen her for half an hour.
0:11:45 > 0:11:48I wish she wouldn't do this.
0:11:55 > 0:11:59We're supposed to be on NOW.
0:12:01 > 0:12:05Listen, Ray. We'll have to do
0:12:05 > 0:12:10I'll buzz upstairs and change. with plenty of the slow spectacular.
0:12:10 > 0:12:13Not too much of the athletic flash!
0:12:13 > 0:12:16You'll probably put that ankle
0:12:38 > 0:12:42Mr Starr persuaded me to go to bed,
0:12:44 > 0:12:4810.30. We would have started earlier but Mr Gaskell had letters to write.
0:12:48 > 0:12:50At least, that's what he said.
0:12:50 > 0:12:54I think it was an excuse, actually. He's not that keen on bridge.
0:12:57 > 0:13:02And did anyone leave the table before Ruby was reported missing?
0:13:10 > 0:13:15It was more than that. To an extent, of course, she was performing.
0:13:18 > 0:13:23She had that from her background. Her parents were both theatricals.
0:13:29 > 0:13:35Catching the train on Sundays
0:13:40 > 0:13:45You know, even the most horrifying anecdotes always ended in laughter.
0:13:48 > 0:13:50No complaints, no comments.
0:13:50 > 0:14:02Just clear-headed amusement.
0:14:43 > 0:14:47Have you talked to Sir Henry yet?
0:14:50 > 0:14:54I haven't spoken to Sir Henry, sir, because he was not at home.
0:14:54 > 0:14:58I did, however, leave a message
0:15:00 > 0:15:03I have no doubt that he will be here
0:15:03 > 0:15:07If you'll excuse me, sir, I shall go and confirm the arrangements.
0:15:16 > 0:15:20I say, are you from Scotland Yard?
0:15:20 > 0:15:24because Mummy was married before.
0:15:27 > 0:15:30Do you like detective stories?
0:15:30 > 0:15:34I've got lots of autographs -
0:15:34 > 0:15:37Will the murder be in the papers?
0:15:37 > 0:15:42I'm back at school next week. I'll be able to tell the chaps
0:15:48 > 0:15:51Mummy and Uncle Mark didn't like her
0:15:51 > 0:15:55glad she's dead. How do you know?
0:15:55 > 0:16:00one way out, anyway, and Mummy said, "Yes, but it was so horrible."
0:16:00 > 0:16:03And Uncle Mark said he didn't see
0:16:10 > 0:16:15Thought I should take a look at Ruby Keene's room. Of course, sir.
0:16:16 > 0:16:19That was Mrs Jefferson's boy,
0:16:19 > 0:16:23Did he have anything to say? He thinks his mother did it.
0:16:29 > 0:16:33Chamber maids do the staff rooms once a week, so nothing was touched.
0:16:35 > 0:16:39Is this the dress she was wearing for the exhibition dance? Yes, sir.
0:16:39 > 0:16:45As far as we can tell, she left
0:16:45 > 0:16:47Presumably, she came up here,
0:16:47 > 0:16:51into the white dress she was wearing when she was found? Yes, sir.
0:16:51 > 0:16:55Who occupies the other rooms on this floor? Josie Turner opposite.
0:16:55 > 0:16:58The other rooms are empty. The extra summer staff use them later.
0:16:58 > 0:17:00There was no-one to see her.
0:17:04 > 0:17:06The fire escape's hardly lit.
0:17:06 > 0:17:11She could climb down and practically guarantee not to be noticed. Yes.
0:17:11 > 0:17:14why a girl changes her dress. Why?
0:17:14 > 0:17:16She was going to meet someone?
0:17:18 > 0:17:21I'm sorry you had to cancel
0:17:21 > 0:17:25Everyone's catching it. The Nailors rang last night to cancel their do.
0:17:51 > 0:17:56Come on, Malcolm. Come on. You said you wanted to see the Colonel.
0:18:11 > 0:18:14Malcolm has made a discovery, sir.
0:18:50 > 0:18:55to meet somebody, suppose it was her boyfriend, a bit of a hard case.
0:18:55 > 0:19:00The sort of person she'd want to keep dark, so as not to foul up her chances with Jefferson.
0:19:05 > 0:19:09Suppose she tells him that Jefferson
0:19:09 > 0:19:12He doesn't like this a bit. Going to take her out of his class.
0:19:17 > 0:19:20Doesn't know his own strength.
0:19:31 > 0:19:34Big house, easy to break into.
0:19:34 > 0:19:38Dumps her there to divert attention
0:19:38 > 0:19:43the best line we have at the moment.
0:19:43 > 0:19:46There is the financial motive,
0:19:46 > 0:19:50it looks as if Mrs Jefferson and Gaskell have a cast-iron alibi.
0:20:01 > 0:20:05Slack? I want you to report to me
0:20:07 > 0:20:11The Bantrys are neighbours of mine.
0:20:30 > 0:20:35Bridget, pop down to the tennis
0:20:35 > 0:20:39There. I'll send Mr Starr along to the room that we've given you.
0:21:15 > 0:21:18TO HERSELF: Something I've seen and I don't know what it is.
0:21:24 > 0:21:28I sometimes feel we have no control over what our eyes decide to see.
0:21:31 > 0:21:34Oh, that's it! I should like
0:21:34 > 0:21:38No, no. Compliments of the house.
0:21:42 > 0:21:47For what it's worth, I always
0:21:47 > 0:21:52with the Jeffersons. I assumed she was missing her family.
0:21:52 > 0:21:55Did you know that Mr Jefferson planned to adopt her, legally?
0:22:05 > 0:22:07Good morning. My name's Clithering.
0:22:07 > 0:22:12room? He is expecting me. Indeed.
0:22:12 > 0:22:16Sir Henry Clithering. I'll phone his suite now, sir. Thank you.
0:22:18 > 0:22:21Sir Henry Clithering is downstairs.
0:22:24 > 0:22:27is on the first floor, sir.
0:22:27 > 0:22:30His man will meet you at the stairs.
0:22:50 > 0:22:54Do you think Josie Turner knew about the adoption business? I don't know.
0:22:56 > 0:23:02that Josie planned it and little Ruby sized it up for herself.
0:23:02 > 0:23:06Josie was as cross as I was when Ruby didn't turn up for the dance.
0:23:08 > 0:23:12It would make sense if Josie had told her to keep her nose clean.
0:23:13 > 0:23:17If you can give me one moment,
0:23:17 > 0:23:20Excuse me, sir. There's a lady outside. I'm busy, Lake!
0:23:24 > 0:23:33What's the matter? She won't
0:23:33 > 0:23:35Let her in. This way, madam.
0:23:39 > 0:23:53I thought you ought to know.
0:23:53 > 0:23:56I'm afraid I'm not putting this
0:24:01 > 0:24:04And the girl! Why do I keep thinking
0:24:04 > 0:24:07Do you know her, Miss Marple?
0:24:07 > 0:24:11No-one seems to know anyone else in this business. "This business"?
0:24:11 > 0:24:16the missing schoolgirl is connected with the death of Ruby Keene?
0:24:39 > 0:24:42Well, it's probably too late,
0:25:15 > 0:25:19I didn't notice what happened then.
0:25:21 > 0:25:26by midnight, I saw George Bartlett.
0:25:26 > 0:25:29He said that he hadn't seen her
0:25:31 > 0:25:33'So I went to look for Josie.'
0:25:37 > 0:25:39Josie, Ruby hasn't turned up.
0:25:39 > 0:25:42George Bartlett hasn't seen her
0:25:42 > 0:25:45this sort of thing. Excuse me.
0:25:50 > 0:25:54Damn fool! She can't do this sort of thing. It'll ruin all her chances.
0:25:59 > 0:26:04be with someone, little idiot.
0:26:07 > 0:26:10The Jeffersons? Never mind. Come on.
0:26:18 > 0:26:22Lake here... Who do you think
0:26:22 > 0:26:26occasionally. Basil somebody.
0:26:32 > 0:26:36Well? HQ, sir. They think they found
0:26:38 > 0:26:42She's in a burnt-out car in a disused quarry five miles from here.
0:26:43 > 0:26:46The car's a Vauxhall Coaster, sir.
0:27:22 > 0:27:34it has all the bizarre ingredients
0:27:56 > 0:28:00I can nose around a bit without
0:28:05 > 0:28:11Did you know that downstairs in the foyer is one of the most formidable
0:28:13 > 0:28:17I can lay you almost any odds you would never recognise her as such.
0:28:21 > 0:28:25There she sits, an elderly spinster.
0:28:28 > 0:28:32Yet her mind has plumbed the depths
0:28:32 > 0:28:34and taken it all in a day's work.
0:28:38 > 0:28:43from Arthur and Dolly's place.
0:28:48 > 0:28:51of that village and its daily life.
0:28:51 > 0:28:54By knowing the village so thoroughly she seems to know the world.
0:29:10 > 0:29:12Oh, how kind of you to say so.
0:29:26 > 0:29:29Well, I was trying to account for Mr Jefferson's infatuation
0:29:36 > 0:29:39I knew you wouldn't fail me.
0:29:39 > 0:29:43Miss Marple, Conway Jefferson has asked me to keep an eye on the case,
0:29:45 > 0:29:47May I call you in for consultation?
0:29:51 > 0:29:55If you think my little ramblings will be to the purpose. Good.
0:29:55 > 0:29:59Then may I ask you and Mrs Bantry to dine with me this evening?
0:29:59 > 0:30:01the Harbottle-Badger thesis.
0:30:11 > 0:30:16What was the name again? Major Reeve. The girl was called Pamela.
0:31:15 > 0:31:19No, certainly not. I wasn't implying
0:31:19 > 0:31:25No, I simply think he was looking to take his dead daughter's place.
0:31:25 > 0:31:29This girl saw her opportunity and fed it for all she was worth.
0:31:36 > 0:31:41and went to nurse a dying relative.
0:31:41 > 0:31:44When she returned, she found the girl completely above herself,
0:31:44 > 0:31:48sitting down in the drawing room, laughing, not wearing her uniform.
0:31:48 > 0:31:53People said things, but I don't
0:31:53 > 0:31:57the old man found it much pleasanter
0:31:57 > 0:32:01how amusing and clever he was
0:32:01 > 0:32:05than Miss Harbottle continually pointing out his faults. Yes.
0:32:10 > 0:32:13You think it was foul play?
0:32:13 > 0:32:18placed in the car and that somebody tried to destroy the evidence.
0:32:18 > 0:32:21for several gallons of fuel. I see.
0:32:23 > 0:32:25You don't think she was...?
0:32:27 > 0:32:31We think she was killed because she was a witness to another crime.
0:32:33 > 0:32:37We don't believe the motive
0:32:37 > 0:32:41You mean "sexual"? Yes, sir. Another girl has been killed.
0:32:41 > 0:32:46We think Pamela may have stumbled across something that made her
0:32:48 > 0:32:51Do you think you feel up to answering some questions, sir?
0:32:53 > 0:32:56We want to catch this person and we need all the help we can get.
0:32:56 > 0:33:00According to your first statement,
0:33:00 > 0:33:03when you reported her missing
0:33:03 > 0:33:06Pamela left Westcliff to attend a Guide's rally in Danemouth
0:33:13 > 0:33:17The local station questioned
0:33:17 > 0:33:22They agreed that Pamela said she was going to Woolworth's and would catch the bus from the depot.
0:33:30 > 0:33:34She hadn't got a real boyfriend
0:33:51 > 0:33:54that Miss Hart was carrying on
0:33:54 > 0:33:57with a very undesirable man connected with race courses
0:34:00 > 0:34:15Well, he was certainly disgusted.
0:34:30 > 0:34:33Conway? You don't really think that?
0:34:41 > 0:34:44I merely say that your friend
0:34:57 > 0:35:01What a wonderful prosecuting counsel you'd have made. She would!
0:35:13 > 0:35:17I want everything you can find on Bartlett. I can't believe anyone
0:35:17 > 0:35:21"this film bloke" is Basil Blake.
0:35:21 > 0:35:27If it is, I want as much as possible about his visits to Danemouth. Check him out with the film studio.
0:35:35 > 0:35:38Was there a long-haired rug
0:35:45 > 0:35:50That dress she was wearing had some long hairs stuck to it, apparently.
0:35:59 > 0:36:02Mountain goat, something like that.
0:36:02 > 0:36:06Don't reckon I've seen one. Whose house would you find one in?
0:36:06 > 0:36:08How about an ex colonial type?
0:36:08 > 0:36:12Favourite occupation when bored with safeguarding the Empire?
0:36:12 > 0:36:15Shoot a Himalayan goat or two.
0:36:23 > 0:36:26Was at the Majestic last week.
0:36:59 > 0:37:03And the young man might have resented it. That's plausible.
0:37:03 > 0:37:07It struck me when her cousin Miss Turner was at Gossington yesterday
0:37:07 > 0:37:13that she was angry with the girl.
0:37:16 > 0:37:19what do you suppose sparked off
0:37:19 > 0:37:24From what I can gather, the bond between and his young in-laws
0:37:24 > 0:37:27was not so much respect and love
0:37:27 > 0:37:29Mr Gaskell and Mrs Jefferson
0:37:29 > 0:37:42less sorrowful, that's all.
0:37:42 > 0:37:47Yes, I think, if you'll excuse me, I'll just telephone to Arthur.
0:37:52 > 0:37:57Oh, Dolly, dear. Indeed, of course.
0:37:57 > 0:38:00Good night, Sir Henry. Good night.
0:38:06 > 0:38:11Why did you refer to Mrs Bantry
0:38:11 > 0:38:14It seems to me that this may be
0:38:20 > 0:38:22there's no smoke without fire.
0:38:22 > 0:38:26Some will even say it, too. They'll be quietly shunned.
0:38:26 > 0:38:31Colonel Bantry is very sensitive. He'll turn in and in upon himself.
0:38:31 > 0:38:33He's probably started already.
0:38:36 > 0:38:41we have got to find out the truth.
0:38:44 > 0:38:46It's 15 miles to Gossington.
0:38:47 > 0:38:51Ruby Keene was last seen here
0:38:55 > 0:38:59Almost any type of car could have made the journey in that time,
0:39:02 > 0:39:08But why anyone should kill her here
0:39:08 > 0:39:15and kill her there - beats me.
0:39:22 > 0:39:25I don't think anything of the kind.
0:39:25 > 0:39:29I think that a very careful plan was made and what happened was
0:39:46 > 0:39:49Dolly was humming it this morning.
0:39:49 > 0:39:53and here they are playing it.
0:39:53 > 0:39:57I'm not very up on the latest thing.
0:40:01 > 0:40:06Now, why do I keep thinking of it?
0:41:17 > 0:41:21Ah. It's the police again, hm?
0:41:21 > 0:41:25There's no need to be afraid,
0:41:26 > 0:41:29Have you seen any tobacco? No, sir.
0:41:30 > 0:41:33I think I'll go and get some.
0:41:33 > 0:41:38They're asking if we have any long-haired white rugs in the house.
0:41:38 > 0:41:41Not white, I believe, sir.
0:41:46 > 0:41:48Of the hairs in the rug, sir.
0:42:00 > 0:42:03Turn the place upside down.
0:42:40 > 0:42:44What can I get you? I'll take a two-ounce tin of my usual, please.
0:42:53 > 0:42:55Thank you. Put it down, will you?
0:43:19 > 0:43:24You were going to refuse him tick.
0:43:41 > 0:43:45What is it, Blake? I just wanted to say how sorry I am, sir.
0:43:45 > 0:43:59You are? About what? This business of the...body in your house.
0:43:59 > 0:44:09Something so...inexplicable.
0:44:11 > 0:44:15Look, Blake. You and I have never got on well in the past, have we?
0:44:15 > 0:44:29Thanks for the offer and all that,
0:44:29 > 0:44:31Oh, yes, it was Addie's fault
0:44:32 > 0:44:36with that good-looking young fellow.
0:44:36 > 0:44:39Mark! Jeff felt neglected. No wonder
0:44:39 > 0:44:42You weren't over attentive to him
0:44:42 > 0:44:45No, but it's female company
0:44:45 > 0:44:49As to everything else. But a girl like Ruby Keene...
0:44:49 > 0:44:53Quite. Jeff's always been such
0:44:53 > 0:44:57Gentlemen are sometimes not so level-headed as they seem.
0:45:05 > 0:45:10How is Conway today? I thought
0:45:10 > 0:45:13Yes, he's all right.
0:45:19 > 0:45:22we shouldn't talk about her.
0:45:22 > 0:45:27Oh, Mark! And she knew her stuff!
0:45:32 > 0:45:35It's just a figure of speech, Addie.
0:45:35 > 0:45:39We were mugs not to have tumbled
0:45:43 > 0:45:47on the half-baked little sourpuss,
0:45:53 > 0:45:57What an unscrupulous person you are,
0:46:06 > 0:46:10Yes. Addie only has to whistle and along he comes, wagging his tail.
0:46:10 > 0:46:15The most reliable man in England. He's hoping to marry her, of course.
0:46:15 > 0:46:20"Do you take this sack of potatoes
0:46:20 > 0:46:22Well, will you excuse me?
0:46:25 > 0:46:29A quick burn up the corniche
0:46:35 > 0:46:40What do you think of the principal beneficiaries of the murder?
0:46:45 > 0:46:48No wonder Mr Jefferson missed her.
0:46:56 > 0:47:01in having more done to their houses
0:47:08 > 0:47:14Oh, yes. I think he's attractive,
0:47:38 > 0:47:42Because if so... Well, Dolly,
0:47:44 > 0:47:48..would not want to see her
0:47:54 > 0:47:57So, where's there's a motive
0:47:57 > 0:48:01and where there's opportunity
0:48:03 > 0:48:06Mrs Jefferson and Mr Gaskell.
0:48:06 > 0:48:11from Ruby Keene's exhibition dance until, well, after midnight.
0:48:19 > 0:48:23What about Blake? He was at the studio party until the small hours.
0:48:23 > 0:48:27He knew Ruby Keene, we think, but there's no discernible motive.
0:48:29 > 0:48:32Well, he had the opportunity, true,
0:48:32 > 0:48:36he can't account for his movements from the time when she was killed
0:48:36 > 0:48:39and the Reeve girl was in his car, but everything else is against him.
0:48:43 > 0:48:47Completely dim. We're following him up, but it's 1,000-to-1 that.
0:48:50 > 0:48:55By the way, sir, I suppose Ruby Keene really was dead by midnight?
0:48:55 > 0:48:59Ah. Now, I'd already asked myself
0:49:10 > 0:49:15She was heavily drugged before she was killed, a barbiturate.
0:49:15 > 0:49:18impromptu violence, does it, sir?
0:49:18 > 0:49:21A random killing, you mean?
0:49:28 > 0:49:33'Basil Blake was seen leaving the party around 11 o'clock.'
0:50:27 > 0:50:31My old granny, as a matter of fact.
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