miss marple close friend elspeth mcgillicuddy ( pam ferris ) see a man strangle a woman on a passing train . however and a the police can find no trace of a corpse either on the train or by the line side and they dismiss her story a a nightmare . however and miss marple ( geraldine mcewen ) be unconvinced and conduct her own investigation and which take her to the estate of the miserly luther crackenthorpe ( david warner ) and his squabble family and all of whom be after his estate . the body finally turn up in their stable and the crackenthorpe believe it to be the body of a french farm girl whom be once marry into their family . however and two more murder occur in the family before miss marple can bring the culprit to justice . quite dismal adaptation of christie whodunit and which have be film well twice before a murder she say ( 1962 ) star margaret rutherford a miss marple and later in 1987 a part of the bbc acclaim series with joan hickson . here and the script stick reasonably close to the original and but like the other episode in this series it be rob of period flavor by unatmospheric cinematography that seem more suit to a pop video than period mystery . performance throughout be wooden and it waste a lot of good talent such a david warner and mcewen be miscast a miss marple .