Murder Most Foul Murder Most Foul Murder Most Foul is the third of four Miss Marple films made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Loosely based on the novel "Mrs McGinty's Dead" by Agatha Christie, it stars Margaret Rutherford as Miss Jane Marple, Bud Tingwell as Inspector Craddock, and Stringer Davis (Rutherford's real-life husband) as Mr. Stringer. The story is ostensibly based on the original Christie story, but notably changes the action and characters. Hercule Poirot is replaced by Miss Marple and most other characters are not in the original story. The film was released in 1964 and directed by George Pollock, with David Pursall credited with
A Caribbean Mystery (film) viewers. Hayes reprised her role as Marple in "Murder with Mirrors" (1985). The film was seen on TV by writer Richard Levinson who noted its ratings success. He thought of doing a regular mystery show about a Marple-like detective, who was a mystery writer like Agatha Christie. This led to "Murder, She Wrote". A Caribbean Mystery (film) A Caribbean Mystery is a 1983 American made-for-television mystery film based on the Agatha Christie novel "A Caribbean Mystery" and starring Helen Hayes as Miss Marple. Stan Margulies had the rights to eight Christie books. He made a TV movie of Christie's "Murder