Hercule Poirot and his associate, Captain Hastings, are called in by his eccentric mystery author friend, Ariadne Oliver, to a manor house in Devon. Oliver is organizing a "Murder Hunt" game for a local fair to be held at Nass House, but she is troubled by something she cannot quite put her foot on.
Peter Ustinov - Hercule Poirot Jean Stapleton - Ariadne Oliver Constance Cummings - Amy Folliat Tim Pigott-Smith - Sir George Stubbs Jonathan Cecil - Captain Arthur Hastings Kenneth Cranham - Detective Inspector Bland Susan Wooldridge - Amanda Brewis Christopher Guard - Alec Legge Jeff Yagher - Eddie South Nicollette Sheridan - Hattie Stubbs / Italian Student (as Nicolette Sheridan) Ralph Arliss - Michael Weyman Caroline Langrishe - Sally Legge Siv Borg - Blond Hostel Girl Fanny Carby - 2nd Woman Cyril Conway - 2nd Man Simon Cowell-Parker - Forensic Man Joanna Dickens - 3rd Woman Sandra Dickinson - Marylin Gale Jack Ellis - Police Constable by Riverbank Harry Fielder - Tombola Man James Gaddas - Young Foreign Man Jimmy Gardner - Old Merdell Gerard Hely - 1st Man Pippa Hinchley - Marlene Tucker Vicky Murdock - Marilyn Tucker Alan Parnaby - The Boatman Dorothea Phillips - 1st Woman Leslie Schofield - Mr Tucker Marjorie Yates - Mrs Tucker