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  • 10/05/2025
First broadcast 26th December 1984.

Amateur detective Miss Jane Marple investigates the murder of a young woman whose body is found in the library at Gossington Hall, home of Colonel and Mrs. Arthur Bantry.

Gwen Watford as Mrs. Bantry
Moray Watson as Colonel Bantry
Valentine Dyall as Lorrimer
Frederick Jaeger as Colonel Melchett
David Horovitch as Detective Inspector Slack
Andrew Cruickshank as Conway Jefferson
Jess Conrad as Raymond Starr
Trudie Styler as Josie Turner
Anthony Smee as Basil Blake
Sally Jane Jackson as Ruby Keene
Joan Hickson as Miss Marple
Raymond Francis as Sir Henry Clithering
Ian Brimble as Detective Constable Lake
Ciaran Madden as Adelaide Jefferson
John Moffatt as Edwards
Keith Drinkel as Mark Gaskell
Hugh Walters as Mr Prescott
Martin Read as Hugo McLean
Debbie Arnold as Dinah Lee
Andrew Downer as Peter Carmody
Colin Higgins as Malcolm
John Bardon as PC Palk
Arthur Bostrom as George Bartlett
Sidney Livingstone as Mr Brogan
Karin Foley as Mary
Sarah Whitlock as WPC
Anne Rutter as Mrs Palk
Kathleen Breck as Bridget
Astra Sheridan as Pamela Reeve
Karen Seacombe as Florrie Small
Stephen Churchett as Major Reeve
John Evans as Inch
Mike Mungarvan as Detective Sgt

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00:00Music
00:05Music
00:09Music
00:13Music
00:21Music
00:27Music
00:29Oh, my God.
00:59Oh, my God.
01:29Oh, my God.
01:59Oh, my God.
02:29Oh, my God.
02:31Mary.
02:33Oh, ma'am, ma'am.
02:35There's a body in the library.
02:37I...
02:39Arthur, wake up.
02:49Arthur.
02:53Arthur.
02:55Dolly.
02:57Mary just said there's a body in the library.
03:01Say that again.
03:05There's a body in the library.
03:07Mary just said so.
03:09Impossible.
03:11Must have imagined it.
03:13I didn't imagine it.
03:15I didn't imagine it.
03:17I told you before, ill girl,
03:19not to read this sort of thing last thing at night.
03:23Arthur.
03:25Arthur.
03:27I hadn't made it all in the curtains, huh?
03:29Hmm?
03:31Arthur.
03:33I'm going downstairs to ask if there's a body in my library.
03:39Arthur?
03:40Arthur?
03:51I directed that nothing should be done till you came down, sir.
03:53Shall I call the police, sir?
03:55Lorimer, are you serious?
03:57You're trying to tell me that there's a dead body in my library?
04:00Perhaps you'd care to come and see for yourself, sir.
04:25Hello?
04:26Please, sir.
04:27Right.
04:28Bill!
04:29He's for you!
04:30Me?
04:31Hello?
04:32Who's there?
04:33Well...
04:34It's there, all right.
04:35But, Arthur!
04:36I know.
04:37It's complete nonsense.
04:38I mean, you...
04:40You...
04:41You...
04:42You...
04:43You...
04:44You...
04:45You...
04:46You...
04:47You...
04:48You...
04:49You...
04:50You...
04:51You...
04:52You...
04:53You...
04:54You...
04:55You...
04:56You have to pinch yourself, don't you?
04:57A body in our library.
05:00My dear.
05:02Still, there it is, as large as...
05:07Look, old girl, bound to be a bit of a hullabaloo.
05:10How about some company for you, eh?
05:12You know.
05:14What a good idea, Arthur.
05:21Yes, that's quite nice, Esther.
05:23Now, all remember to make it into a nice pointy mountain.
05:27Just like that.
05:29And not a dumpy hill.
05:30Yes, ma'am.
05:31Yes.
05:32Well...
05:33The brass looks quite smart.
05:35Yes.
05:36Well done.
05:37Thank you, ma'am.
05:38Oh, dear.
05:39Well, I wonder.
05:41Well done.
05:42Do you have to learn it?
05:43Well done.
05:49It's a Mary Mead 3-5.
05:51Is that you, Jane?
05:53Oh!
05:54You're up very early, Dolly.
05:56My dear!
05:57We've just found a body in our library.
06:00our library i'm coming down to fetch you so that you can see it before constable pork gets here
06:06is that all right dolly what are you talking about what body yes quite that's just it we've
06:14never seen her before it ought to be a practical joke except that she's dead
06:19she's a blonde platinum blonde in our library you will come won't you
06:34that's right yeah there's inspector slack there inspector slack there yet please oh your buttons
06:40is all wrong hey don't the colonel shhh how come the colonel don't know
06:49nothing about it seen as though it's in his library
07:19bill
07:40where you'll be going
07:43gossip it's on all
07:50wait for me
07:57oh
08:11arthur's being difficult he doesn't think that i was to enjoy myself about it one bit but then i don't
08:17know the girl at all and it's odd but she doesn't somehow seem to be real if you know what i mean
08:31what i mean
08:49what i mean
08:51There it came.
09:21Do you see what I mean, Jane?
09:42Yes.
09:43Yes, I do.
09:46I agree.
09:48She's not real.
09:50She's very young.
10:04Yes.
10:05Yes, I suppose she is.
10:15That's Constable Fork.
10:20It's all right, Barry.
10:24I'll go.
10:25You can...
10:26You better...
10:28Hang on.
10:33Ah, Fork.
10:34Good man.
10:35Morning, Colonel.
10:36Crapsed food.
10:42You didn't tell me you're bringing the Chief Constable over?
10:44No, I...
10:46Hello, Bantry.
10:51Just heard the news.
10:53Thought I'd pop over on my way in.
10:55Very good of you.
10:56Has Inspector Slack arrived yet?
10:58Slack?
10:59No.
11:00Bad show, all this.
11:01In the library, I gather.
11:03Go on in, Constable.
11:04Go on in, Constable.
11:05I'll join you in a minute.
11:06Mary will show you.
11:07Mary!
11:08Show the Constable in.
11:10Action, Colonel.
11:12Come on.
11:13Must have been a nasty shot for you.
11:15How's Dolly taking it?
11:17Huh?
11:18Miss Barbell?
11:19Uh, good morning, Bill.
11:20Don't worry, Constable.
11:21We haven't touched anything.
11:22Even a novice reader of detective stories knows that.
11:26Ah.
11:27Oh.
11:28Oh.
11:29Oh.
11:30Don't worry, Constable.
11:31We haven't touched anything.
11:32Even a novice reader of detective stories knows that.
11:34Don't worry, Constable.
11:35We haven't touched anything.
11:36Even a novice reader of detective stories knows that.
11:39Ah.
11:58And you say you've never seen the girl before?
12:00Never clapped eyes on her.
12:02Ah.
12:03Colonel Melchett.
12:05How are you?
12:08Hello, Mrs. Bantry.
12:10And the redoubtable Miss Marple.
12:13Oh.
12:14Beaten me to it, I see.
12:16Oh.
12:17Good morning, Chief Constable.
12:19That's the right word for you, Jane.
12:21Redoubtable.
12:22I didn't know you two knew each other.
12:24Oh, yes, yes.
12:25We're old cronies.
12:26I have long held that Miss Marple has what I would call forensic intuition
12:30developed to the point of genius.
12:32You're radical.
12:33The result, she tells me, of a lifetime's education in an English village.
12:38Well, one does see so much evil, I fear.
12:41But if I do have any intuition, may I use it now
12:44and suggest my being here makes you uncomfortable?
12:47That's the reason for these compliments, I suspect.
12:50It had crossed my mind that you might dog our official plodding footsteps.
12:55No nonsense, Melchett.
12:56It's been a bit of a jolt, you know, this business.
12:59Dolly asked Jane over.
13:00Simply, oh, no, woman to woman.
13:04She may look as if she's taking it calmly, but this sort of thing,
13:07well, there's no telling, is there?
13:10What?
13:11Who left us any breakfast, Arthur?
13:13I hardly ate a thing.
13:15Well, there may be no telling what sort of state I'm in,
13:18but I think I could eat a horse.
13:21Jane.
13:26Good, right.
13:27Well, better take a look at the library, then.
13:29I'll show you.
13:32Thank you, Lord.
13:41Well, Jane.
13:42Well, I suppose it does remind me a little of Mrs. Cheffy's youngest, Edie, you know.
13:56I think that's because this poor girl bit her nails.
14:02Yes.
14:03Edie was fond of cheap finery, too.
14:06That satin dress she was wearing.
14:08Oh, dearly, yes, yes.
14:09Very poor quality, indeed, yes.
14:12But what was she doing in Arthur's library?
14:15Well, she wasn't dressed for burglary, was she?
14:17No.
14:18Dressed for dancing, quite.
14:21Or a party.
14:22Yes, but we don't have parties.
14:24At least, not that sort of party, do we?
14:28Do we?
14:31Oh, no.
14:35Jane.
14:36I knew his mother.
14:38All the same.
14:39Selina Blake is the nicest person imaginable, and she has the finest herbaceous border in the county.
14:48Mind you, Arthur does very nearly burst a blood vessel whenever Basil Blake's name is mentioned.
14:55Did I ever tell you?
14:56Basil Blake was frightfully rude to Arthur.
14:59Terrible argument about the army, empire, that sort of thing.
15:03And Basil Blake called Arthur a fossilized O-B-U-double-G, etc.
15:11And those clothes he wears.
15:14Well, I think the clothes are all of a pattern with the language and intended to have the same effect.
15:20Oh, but he was an adorable baby.
15:23Well, according to his picture in last Sunday's paper, the Chiviot murderer was an adorable baby.
15:31Jane, you're not serious.
15:34No, no, but I'm just trying to account for the young woman's presence here.
15:37And Basil Blake does have parties, you know.
15:40Do you remember last year?
15:42Cars roaring through St. Mary Mead at all time of the night.
15:46Yes, but I expect that was those film people, Jane, you know.
15:50Well, doesn't he bring down a young woman most weekends now?
15:55A blonde?
15:57A platinum blonde?
16:00All right, miss, just tell Colonel Bantry that my people will be closing off the library and all access points.
16:04We don't want anyone to leave the house.
16:05Splendid, Slack.
16:06The young lady will show you where.
16:07All right, lads, follow the young lady.
16:09Come on, Fletcher, Pringle, get a move on.
16:11Come on, lad, we haven't got all day.
16:17Preliminary shouldn't take very long, sir. I'll report shortly.
16:20Yes, I'll speak to you later.
16:22Right, son.
16:24Who is that?
16:26Inspector Slack. Highly inappropriate name.
16:29Gives me a headache.
16:31All right, gentlemen. Usual procedure.
16:33Don't touch anything until I've had a good shifting myself.
16:35Then you can get going with your box brownies.
16:37I still think it might be helpful if you could tell me your movements last night.
16:44My movements?
16:45Well, it might throw up some little detail that you didn't even think you'd noticed.
16:49Oh, very well.
16:51Where shall I begin?
16:53Did you dine at home?
16:55Yes.
16:567.30 as usual.
16:58In fact, I probably left the table about quarter past eight as I was driving over to Much Benham.
17:02I'm treasurer of the Much Benham Association, you know.
17:05It was a good meeting. It didn't go on too long like some of them.
17:08It was pouring rain when we came out.
17:10My regards to your wife, Colonel.
17:13Good night for you all.
17:14Thank you very much. Good night.
17:15Good night.
17:16Good night.
17:18Good night.
17:24Good night.
17:26Blast.
17:53Blast.
17:56so you were back at a quarter to twelve yes did you go into the library no did
18:23there was no need I was tired and soaking wet I went straight to bed after I cleaned up come
18:29in excuse me sir yes carry on what is it slack could I have a word please sir very well excuse
18:41me dr. Haydock's here I can't do much while he's conducting his ritual so I've just been on to
18:52HQ sir and what have HQ got to say for themselves missing persons I think they've got a likely
18:57candidate young female from one of the big hotels down on the front at Danemouth Danemouth I know
19:02it's 15 miles but that's only half an hour or so even on those roads very well then I'll check it
19:08then yes very well now where were we I'd gone up to bed oh yes anyone else up no don't have gone to bed
19:29and Lorimer retards to his quarters about eleven o'clock what do you know about Lorimer well he
19:35was my Batman first class fellow vouched for all the servants who practically grew up with them oh I know
19:42since the war houses have had to make do with what they can get we've had to take on some daily help
19:47ourselves I believe but Donnie says we've been damn lucky no no no no no vouch from all
19:52now look here Bantry I'd like your absolute assurance that you have never in fact seen this
20:01girl before I dare say you do you see oh boy just between ourselves if you were tied up with this
20:09girl in any way much better let it come out now oh good god man I'm not suggesting that you murdered
20:15the girl but well you must see that it could be very awkward I mean there's no avoiding the fact
20:20that she's lying there dead in your library I have already told you Melchie I never saw that girl
20:27before fair enough now if you'll excuse me I'll find some coffee in the dining room
20:34okay nickels and a couple more places
20:43you can't come in here sir
20:48oh calm time
20:49but sir
20:51you're yelling
20:56sorry sir he just burst in I couldn't stop him
20:59I'm afraid I am eating like a horse
21:05Jane
21:07you sure you won't join me
21:08oh quite sure
21:09thank you
21:09oh dear
21:21Arthur mentioned coffee of course Colonel Melchard come in
21:30Arthur's upset I always know he's got something on his mind when he goes off to home farm
21:39we have pigs at home farm
21:43something very restful about pigs
21:46the philosophers of the animal kingdom
21:48but when Arthur takes his gun with him it means that he's really upset
21:53how does that follow
21:55well he only takes his gun with him to pretend that he's not going to home farm
22:00which means he's pretending that he hasn't got anything on his mind
22:04which means of course that he's very upset
22:09I'm afraid that may have been my fault awkward business questioning a neighbor
22:15I'm sure you were very tactful
22:17it's all been a bit of a shock to him you see
22:21poor old thing doesn't even shoot anymore
22:25well Colonel Melchard can we help you in any way
22:30no but I'm sure Miss Marple can
22:33she probably has the answer to this whole business already
22:36oh nothing like that I assure you
22:38no
22:39nonsense
22:40she's practically sold it already
22:43tell him about Basil Blake
22:45now Dolly
22:47yes
22:48someone
22:49who can
23:03he's
23:05still
23:12yes I'm Colonel Melchie chief constable a friend of your mother's asked me to have a word with you
23:27did she to keep it unofficial well you may not have noticed but I'm not actually wearing the
23:33old school tie mr. Blake I'd like my visit to be as discreet as possible but I am here in my
23:39capacity as a policeman may I come in why not
23:54thank you
23:57you do your housework early mr. Blake not at all I haven't been to bed yet indeed is that significant
24:15chief constable probably not I was at a studio party all night certainly it was an orgy some of the things
24:25that went on would have exceeded your professional imagination I got back at dawn drink I think you
24:32know mr. Blake are you alone here this weekend well would appear so wouldn't it I understand that you
24:39normally have a visitor young woman blonde I believe aha so that's the crime is it had the old cats in
24:47the village been on to you when did they put rural fornication on the statute book I am here mr. Blake
24:53Blake because a young woman a blonde young woman has been found murdered
24:59blimey
25:04where
25:07at gossington hall
25:09gossington
25:11at old bantry's
25:13the dirty old soldier
25:16mr. Blake I'll thank you to
25:18I am not in the habit of procuring blondes for the decrepit gentry
25:22and it's not mine either I haven't lost mine
25:25I haven't even mislaid her
25:28ah the plot dilutes chief constable
25:33that sounds like the prodigal blonde
25:40you should have had that drink
25:41blake
25:44blake
25:47blake
25:47you
25:47bastard
25:48where are you
25:49blake
25:52what the hell do you think you're doing running out on me like that
25:56if I take you to a party I expect you to behave yourself
25:59you do not snog with overweight hungarians
26:02and if you do you do so out of sight
26:05as a spectacle it has its limitations
26:08you bloody hypocrite
26:09may I introduce you to the chief constable of the county
26:14how do you do
26:22there you are then colonel
26:24my blonde bit appears to be alive and scratching
26:27so why don't you go and see about bantry's
26:38the
27:08Let's go.
27:38Let's go.
28:08Let's go.
28:38Let's go.
28:39What is it?
28:40Inspector Slang.
28:43Can you care to come into my office, Inspector?
28:47Good morning, Mr. Staff.
29:03Good morning, Mrs. Jefferson.
29:06All right, Ray, then.
29:07Was that a police car I saw outside?
29:10Yes.
29:11Inspector Lestrade has given Prescott the third degree.
29:14Have they traced Drew Beard?
29:16I presume not.
29:18I think he'd have been less officious if he had a success on his hands.
29:22Do tell me when you know anything, won't you?
29:24I'd better go now.
29:25The doctor's with the old man.
29:27As soon as you hear anything, Ray.
29:39Of course.
29:40Well, her name is Ruby Keane.
29:46She's our dance hostess.
29:48She's quite slim.
29:49Oh, you know, medium-heightish.
29:50Well, perhaps a shorter sign.
29:52She's 18, platinum blonde hair, blue eyes, I think.
29:57She's quite quiet.
29:58Never been any talk.
29:59Good, good.
30:00Got any photographs?
30:01She bought one, yes.
30:02For publicity, you know.
30:03But it was stolen from the showcase about a week ago.
30:06An admirer, probably.
30:07It does happen.
30:08Sorry about that.
30:09Then I shall need somebody to look at the body.
30:11Body?
30:14Oh, my God.
30:16But you didn't say.
30:17It was a car accident?
30:18Murder.
30:19Oh, my God.
30:22Calm down.
30:23It wasn't on the premises.
30:24Oh, God.
30:29Oh, you're still here, are you?
30:31Good.
30:33Got a diary?
30:34Yes.
30:36Listen.
30:37About this girl.
30:38Ruby.
30:39Have you found her?
30:40We've found a body.
30:41Is it her?
30:42We don't know.
30:43We need somebody to identify her.
30:44Someone who knew her well.
30:46I see.
30:47Well, we all knew her.
30:48But she has a cousin.
30:50Her name's Josie.
30:51Careful.
31:04Can I help?
31:08Inspector, I'm Josephine Turner.
31:10Can I help you in any way?
31:11I hope so, Miss Turner.
31:12I hope so, Miss Turner.
31:41Yes.
32:04Yes.
32:11I'm sorry to have had to put you through that, Miss Turner.
32:15That's all right.
32:17You've no doubts.
32:20No, I'm afraid not. It's Ruby all right.
32:24No, thanks.
32:28How did... what happened?
32:31She was strangled.
32:33We think with the belt of her own dress.
32:36It wouldn't have taken much if she was surprised, you see.
32:39There was no significant struggle and no interference.
32:42The report is quite clear. She was a Virgo Intactor.
32:45I see, thanks.
32:47It happened between 10 o'clock and midnight.
32:51Poor little Ruby.
32:54Men are such swines.
32:57Yes, I suppose it's a reasonable assumption that it was a man.
33:00Did you have a particular man in mind?
33:02No. No, Ruby kept all that side of things a bit dark.
33:06She wouldn't have told me.
33:08My guess is she wouldn't have had a boyfriend.
33:10You know, a regular boyfriend.
33:13Last night I began to wonder.
33:16Tell us about her.
33:18You said it was your idea that she came to the Majestic.
33:21Yes, that's right.
33:23I'm a dance and bridge hostess.
33:25Been at the place about three years.
33:27You try to make up bridge force that'll get on with each other and so on.
33:31It's just a question of tact and experience, really.
33:34Then there's the dancing.
33:36I do a couple of exhibition dances every evening with Raymond.
33:40He's the tennis pro as well.
33:42Season got off to a good start.
33:45Then I went and ruined it all by cracking a small bone in my ankle.
33:49It was very awkward.
33:51Didn't want the hotel to get anyone else.
33:53Didn't want my pitch queered, thanks.
33:56So I thought of Ruby.
33:58I mean, she's quite a neat little hoover.
34:00She's family, I thought.
34:03She was delighted.
34:05The idea was that I'd keep on as bridge hostess
34:07and Ruby would do the dancing for the rest of the season.
34:12How long ago was that?
34:14About a month.
34:15And was Miss Keen a success?
34:18She was all right.
34:20Raymond's quite clever.
34:21He carried her through.
34:23You know, she was a nice-looking girl.
34:25People seemed to like her.
34:28Would you mind telling us exactly what happened last night?
34:35Well, from about 10.30,
34:38I was playing bridge with a family called the Jeffersons.
34:41Ruby would have been dancing with one of her partners then.
34:44In fact, she was till, oh, at least 11.
34:56Next thing I knew, Ray came to tell me she hadn't turned up for the midnight session.
34:59So we both went to look for her.
35:02Are we supposed to be on now?
35:04Yes, I know we're supposed to be on now.
35:05We've looked at her.
35:06But she's your responsibility, Josie.
35:08Well, I don't know.
35:09The little terrace at the end.
35:10You can only get there from Prescott's rooms.
35:12Where the hell is she?
35:13Let's look somewhere else.
35:14Josie, we've looked there!
35:24Come on, it's quarter past two.
35:26It's too late now to give anyone a piece of your mind.
35:29You can wake the little minks up nice and early.
35:35That'll teach her.
35:36Good idea.
35:46Who reported her missing?
35:47Jefferson.
35:48Mr. Jefferson.
35:49One of your bridge party, I suppose.
35:52Yes?
35:53Yes.
35:54I gather there was some resistance from the hotel manager, sir,
35:57but this Mr. Jefferson is one of their wealthier guests.
36:00Yes, but why him?
36:03Well, he had a soft spot for Ruby, I think.
36:07He's an invalid.
36:08He fusses.
36:10I see.
36:12Yes, well, I've no doubt we'll be speaking to him in due course.
36:15Now, did your cousin ever mention Gossington?
36:19Gossington?
36:20Yes, Gossington Hall.
36:22Never heard of it.
36:24It's where her body was found.
36:26Gossington Hall?
36:27How extraordinary.
36:29Do you happen to know Colonel or Mrs. Bantry?
36:32No.
36:34By Mr. Basil Blake.
36:36Yeah, it rings a bell.
36:38Excuse me, sir.
36:39Could I have a word?
36:41In private.
36:46Very well.
36:47Excuse me, Miss Turner.
36:54Well?
36:56Colonel Ban...
37:00Colonel Bantry dined at the Majestic last week, sir.
37:02It was in the hotel reservation's diary.
37:04What are you trying to say, Slag?
37:06I am aware that the Colonel is a friend of yours, sir.
37:10So?
37:12I think we should take Miss Turner to Gossington Hall.
37:15It may be true that she and the Colonel have never met,
37:17but on the other hand, sir, it may not.
37:25Miss Turner, I wondered if you'd do us just one more thing.
37:29Would you mind accompanying us to Gossington Hall?
37:33She was there, on the hearthrug.
37:44I can't understand it, really.
37:47Oh, he certainly can't.
37:49I mean, it isn't the sort of place.
37:50Quite.
37:53And that's what makes it so very, very interesting, wouldn't you say?
38:08You're a good man going to be long, do you think?
38:20What the fuck?
38:31Here you are, Lucinda.
38:32This scraper's useless.
38:51Lorimer, where are my house shoes?
38:54Dolly, if you don't want me to bring money to the house,
38:56either get Lorimer and fix that scraper
38:58or sort out some sort of house shoes.
39:01The war's over, you know.
39:06Oh.
39:11How do you do?
39:14This is Miss Turner.
39:16Arthur Bantry.
39:19Pleased to meet you.
39:25Miss Turner has come from the mortuary to identify the body, Arthur.
39:30She was her cousin.
39:33Ah.
39:35Nasty business.
39:37I'm so sorry, my dear.
39:40Are you from these parts?
39:42Miss Turner works at the, um, the Majestic.
39:47Majestic?
39:48Yes.
39:49In Danmouth?
39:51Yes.
39:52How extraordinary.
39:54Why do you say that, sir?
39:56Well, old Jefferson's staying at the Majestic.
39:59He let me down, you know.
40:01Sent me a card, then couldn't make it in the end.
40:04I'm sorry, Bantry.
40:06Could you explain that, uh, a little more?
40:09Yes, of course.
40:10Proper report.
40:11Well, I had a card from Conway Jefferson saying that he was down for a spring holiday.
40:16Well, the magistrate's association was meeting in Danmouth.
40:19So I arranged to dine with him at the Majestic.
40:22Now, when was that?
40:24Last Thursday.
40:25Thursday week, you understand.
40:27Old Geoff wasn't too well, his man said.
40:30And Mark and Adelaide had gone to the pictures.
40:33So, I ate alone.
40:38Thursday is the cook's day off, you see.
40:41No point in Arthur hurrying home to cold meat and salad.
40:45Oh, there it is.
40:47First no alibi.
40:49Now this.
40:52Puts me in it good and proper, doesn't it?
40:54Oh, don't be grudish, Arthur.
40:56I'm sure Jane has worked it out already.
40:58Jane, have you an explanation for us?
41:01Well, I have an explanation, but of course it's only my own idea.
41:06Yes, Tommy Bond and our new schoolmistress, Mrs. Martin.
41:11She went to wind up the clock and the frog jumped out.
41:23I'll wait for you in the car, Miss Turner.
41:25How's old Conway? Any better?
41:28Oh, he's wonderful, considering he's very cheerful.
41:31And the family, Mark and Adelaide, they all right?
41:35Have you seen Mrs. Duff?
41:36Yes.
41:39Well, yes, yes.
41:41Miss Turner, they are all right, aren't they?
41:43I mean, they are nice people, as I remember.
41:46Oh, yes.
41:47Yes, they are, really.
41:49Anyway, cheerio then.
41:52Oh, Bantry.
41:55I just thought I'd...
41:57Well, I hope you understand.
42:01Slack.
42:02I won't be a moment, Miss Turner.
42:07Yeah?
42:09Ruby Keene may not have acquired a new boyfriend during the last few weeks,
42:12but I think there will have been someone sometime.
42:16Dig it out, will you?
42:17The other thing is this fellow, Blake.
42:19Now, he claims that he was at a party at his studios most of last night.
42:23I want to know what time he left.
42:25Now, I know tomorrow's Sunday, but I'd like you to make a start at the hotel.
42:29Oh, and do your best to keep the press out of it, otherwise it'll be impossible.
42:33And make an appointment with this fellow, um, Jefferson.
42:36Tearsay, I'll come with you.
42:38Call me.
42:39Got you, sir.
42:40And about Colonel Bantry.
42:44Sir?
42:45Well done.
42:46Always best to make sure.
43:04Well, Jan.
43:06What do you think of Miss Turner?
43:08There was something worrying, that young woman.
43:12She was quite all right until the Jeffersons were mentioned,
43:15and then her manner became quite altered.
43:18She hardly seemed upset at her death.
43:20Hardly at all.
43:22Quite so.
43:24I don't think she cared for her.
43:27It seemed to make her more angry than anything else.
43:31Oh.
43:32There's it.
43:34Oh, nothing.
44:01I found a body.
44:02Malcolm, you'll be the death of me.
44:03I found a body.
44:04Oh, you got a bit excited, did you?
44:06Yeah, well, I think we all did.
44:08When they go take it away?
44:10Oh, they've already done that.
44:11All they've got to do now is solve the crime.
44:15Now, what is it?
44:18My body?
44:19No.
44:20No, no.
44:21It's not yours, lad.
44:22I found it.
44:23No, no.
44:24Mary found it.
44:25I found it.
44:26It's my body.
44:27Malcolm, Malcolm.
44:28All right, all right.
44:29You can say you found it if you want to.
44:32I suppose Mary will mind.
44:34I must be off then.
44:36Give my regards to your ma.
44:46Jane.
44:49How would you like to spend a few days at the Majestic in Danemouth?
44:53You could see where this poor girl worked and so on.
44:55What do you say?
44:56Oh, Dolly.
44:57I'm not very good at hotels, but if you really think...
45:00I'll come too.
45:01We could share a suite.
45:04I don't know.
45:06I feel I'd like the air to clear here for a bit.
45:10It's upset me a bit, all this business.
45:14I'd like it cleared up.
45:16Don't want Arthur brooding.
45:18It's not a natural brooder.
45:19It doesn't suit him.
45:22What do you think?
45:23I could book us in for tomorrow.
45:27Yes.
45:29I think a little sea air would be very pleasant.
45:33You do understand.
45:35Don't you, Jane?
45:37Yes.
45:38Yes, I do.
45:40Just what everyone will be saying.
45:44It's so unfair.
45:46It's just a little silly sometimes about pretty girls who come here to play tennis, that's all.
45:52Rather fatuous and avuncular.
45:54Doesn't mean anything.
45:56Why shouldn't it?
45:57After all, I have my garden.
46:27I have.
46:36It's so unfair.
46:38I hate.
46:41I hate...
46:43It's so unfair.
46:45It's so unfair.
46:47If I ông Hannah was and I came here to play tennis, I have a feeling.
46:52I would rather be a foldable, I have a whole-to-to-to-to-to-to-to-to-to-to-to-to-to-to-to-to-to-to-to-to-to-to-to-to-to-to-to.
46:55Jefferson first, sir.
47:00Clack.
47:01I think I'll tackle Jefferson on my own.
47:04Less intimidating, hmm?
47:06You get the incident room ready, and I'll look in before I leave.
47:14And Mr. Jefferson spends his money, I see.
47:17Oh, yes.
47:18Always takes our Princess Elizabeth's suite.
47:21The whole family dine a la carte.
47:22He's a burgundy man.
47:23Nothing inferior to Pomer.
47:24Oh, yes, he expects the best.
47:29And we provide it.
47:31Indeed, sometimes I think he's never heard of ration.
47:35His daughter-in-law, Mrs. Adelaide Jefferson, has an adjoining suite.
47:43Both his own children were killed in the plane crash, you know.
47:47Mr. Gaskell, his son-in-law is on the next floor.
47:50Good morning, Mrs. Jefferson.
47:52This is Colonel Melchert.
47:53He would like to speak to Mr. Jefferson.
47:54Thank you, Mr. Prescott.
47:55It's absolutely understood.
47:57Yes, of course.
48:02My father-in-law is expecting you, Chief Constable.
48:04But I'd be awfully grateful if you didn't take up too much of his time.
48:08He's not been frightfully well, and this has been something of a shock for him.
48:10Good morning, Colonel Melchert.
48:32Good morning, Colonel Melchert.
48:34I'm Conway Jefferson.
48:40That's lovely.
48:45That's most kind.
48:47Now, could we have coffee for two, please?
48:50Yes, ma'am, certainly.
48:52Jane?
48:53Oh, I see.
48:54Isn't this just the thing?
49:04See you here.
49:05Jane?
49:06Are you thinking?
49:12I understand that it was you, Mr. Jefferson, who insisted that the hotel manager telephoned
49:21the police yesterday morning.
49:23That is so.
49:25May I ask what your interest in this girl was?
49:30I was more than interested.
49:33I was going to adopt her.
49:36Ruby Keane was about to become my daughter.
49:38Here we are, Jane.
49:50Isn't this nice?
49:53Oh, why am I such a muddlehead?
49:57You?
49:57Oh, but I am.
49:59Things swim in and out, pop up here and there.
50:02I don't know what they are or what they're doing.
50:05This poor child who's been murdered.
50:08There's something missing, you know.
50:12There's something linked with this business that hasn't yet been found.
50:17I don't know what it is.
50:19I don't know.
50:19I don't know.
50:38I don't know.
50:39I don't know.
50:48I don't know.
50:51I did.
51:21I did find a body.