Margaret McGinty, a barmaid and former actress, is found hanged, and her lodger, Harold Taylor, caught at the scene, seems plainly guilty.
Margaret Rutherford — Miss Jane Marple Ron Moody — H. Driffold Cosgood Charles Tingwell — Inspector Craddock Andrew Cruickshank — Justice Crosby (credited as "Andrew Cruikshank") Megs Jenkins — Gladys Thomas, Mrs McGinty's sister Dennis Price — Harris Tumbrill, a theatrical agent Ralph Michael — Ralph Summers, a philandering former matinee idol James Bolam — Bill Hanson, an actor Stringer Davis (Margaret Rutherford's real-life husband) — Jim Stringer Francesca Annis — Sheila Upward, an actress and heiress engaged to Bill Hanson Alison Seebohm — Eva McGonigall, a premonition-prone actress Terry Scott — Police Constable Wells Pauline Jameson — Maureen Summers, Ralph's wife Maurice Good — George Rowton Annette Kerr — Dorothy, an actress and murder victim Windsor Davies — Sergeant Brick Neil Stacy — Arthur (as Neil Stacey) Stella Tanner — Mrs Florrie Harris, the landlady John Adams as Constable Edwin Apps as Police Constable Carrying Tea Tray Jack Armstrong as Jury Member Sydney Arnold as Vicar Joe Beckett as Man in Court Tony Castleton as Jury Member Billy Cornelius as Jury Member Fred Davis as Constable Reggie de Beer as Jury Member John Dunbar as Jury Foreman Eric Francis as Stage Manager Garard Green as Doctor Lucy Griffiths as Miss Rusty Cameron Hall as Johnson Bill Hibbert as Constable Arthur Howell as Police Constable in Theatre Box Gerry Judge as Police Constable Ross Parker as Mr. Strawbridge Susan Richards as Cleaning Lady Michael Segal as Stagehand Alecia St Leger as Jury Member John Wilder as Chief Constable
