# Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder (1987)

> A young bride's buried childhood memory of a murder draws amateur sleuth Miss Marple into a decades-old crime at a country manor.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/66216

## Facts

- Seasons: 1
- Episodes: 2
- Episode runtime: 55 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: mystery, crime, drama
- Network: BBC One
- Cast: Joan Hickson, Geraldine Alexander, John Moulder-Brown, Frederick Treves, Jean Anderson, Terrence Hardiman, John Bennett, Geraldine Newman
- TMDB rating: 7.6/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091970/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: measured
- Intensity: moderate
- Complexity: accessible
- Violence: mild
- Tone: measured, wistful, genteel, unsettling, contemplative

## Synopsis

Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder (1987) is a British two-part miniseries adapted from the Agatha Christie novel, produced for BBC One. Joan Hickson stars as the observant elderly sleuth Miss Jane Marple, who is drawn into a troubling case when a young bride, Gwenda Reed (Geraldine Alexander), moves into a country manor and begins to recall childhood memories of witnessing a murder. Her husband Giles Reed (John Moulder-Brown) and the household around them hide tensions of their own, and doctor James Kennedy (Frederick Treves) is among the figures whose stories must be untangled. The engine of the story is patient detection through conversation, village gossip and close attention to small domestic details rather than action. Told across two fifty-five-minute episodes, it is a self-contained period mystery set in 1930s England. Its mood is quiet, measured and wistful, with a gentle surface that gradually sharpens into unease as old secrets surface. Fans of Agatha Christie's Poirot, Midsomer Murders and Father Brown will find resonance in its British whodunit tradition, genteel setting and unhurried puzzle solving.

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