![]() Agatha Christie was brilliant at setting things up and piecing things together. Although it had been some years since I've heard this one in particular, I remember it very well as I relistened to it. I am no stranger to the BBC Radio 4 adaptions of Agatha Christie. It was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 from 9 August to 6 September 1999. One of Agatha Christie's most intriguing mysteries is dramatised with a full cast including Ian Lavender and Jamie Glover. Can Miss Marple work out what has happened and why? When the lights go back on, the promised murder has been committed. Then the clock strikes the half-hour, the lights go out, and three gunshots ring in the dark. Sure enough, the evening sees a crowd of residents standing expectantly in the drawing-room. Suspecting her nephew of a practical joke, she's sure of one thing: half the village will be converging on the house expecting a glass of sherry. ![]() The mistress of Little Paddocks, Letitia Blacklock, is also taken completely by surprise. ![]() Is it a game? And who is meant to attend. ![]() Nestled among the usual notices about dogs for sale and appeals for domestic help, the startling entry in the personal column of the Chipping Cleghorn Gazette has the entire village agog with curiosity. Friends please accept this, the only intimation.' 'A murder is announced and will take place on Friday, October 29, at Little Paddocks, at 6:30pm. ![]()
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