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Nostalgic Mystery Radio

Ep.309 Agatha Christie's Miss Marple: They Do It With Mirrors: Pt.4

Nostalgic Mystery Radio

Stevie K.

Detective, Fiction, Crime, Arts, Radio Show, Mystery, Tv & Film, Performing Arts, Drama, Old Time Radio

4.8588 Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Miss Jane Marple doesn’t look like your average detective. Quite frankly, she doesn’t look like a detective at all. But looks can be deceiving... For a woman who has spent her life in the small village of St Mary Mead, Miss Marple is surprisingly worldly. But as she often points out she has had every opportunity to observe human nature. They Do It With Mirrors Miss Marple senses danger when she visits a friend living in a Victorian mansion which doubles as a rehabilitiation centre for delinq...

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to another episode nostalgic mystery radio. I'm your host Stevie Kay, and it's my honor to bring you the radio shows of yesterday year.

0:25.6

For this episode I bring you, Agatha Christie's Miss Marple, and They Do It With Mirrors,

0:32.6

where Miss Marple senses danger when she visits a friend living in a Victorian mansion, which doubles

0:39.1

as a rehab center for delinquents. Her fears are affirmed when a youth fires a revolver and an administrator.

0:47.4

Neither is injured, but a mysterious visitor is less fortunate, shot dead simultaneously in another part of the building. Pure coincidence?

0:57.4

Miss Marple thinks not. This will be a five-part series, so sit back and relax, and I hope you enjoy

1:05.5

this nostalgic mystery radio. Thank you for listening.

1:25.8

I had come to Stony Gates because I had been told that my old school friend Carrie Louise was in danger.

1:30.7

Christian Gilbranson, her stepson, had come to Stony Gates to warn her husband, Louis Ceracold, that she was being slowly and deliberately poisoned,

1:38.0

and then Gulbranson had been murdered. It seemed that the poisoner and the murderer must be one and the same person,

1:47.0

but which of Carrie Louise's beloved family was trying to lay hands on her considerable

1:54.0

fortune. We present June Whitfield as Miss Marple in Agatha Christie's They Do It With Mirrors.

2:19.8

Well, Miss Marple, I've been having a word with Superintendent Blackett at the yard,

2:25.3

and he tells me that you're not quite what you seem.

2:29.4

Apparently, you're rather an old hand at the murder business.

2:33.9

I must admit that I have rather more than a nodding acquaintance, yes.

2:39.1

Sir, I'd like to have your opinion.

2:41.3

Who should we be concentrating on the granddaughter's American husband?

2:45.3

Oh, that would certainly be very convenient for everybody.

2:48.4

I lost my best girl to a yank during the war, so...

2:51.5

Maybe I'm biased.

2:53.9

Who do you think has been secretly poisoning, Mrs. Sericold?

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