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4/12. Feature-length episode of the detective drama. Agatha Christie's elderly sleuth is intrigued by the case of a City businessman who died in his `counting house' with a pocketful of rye - and as she sets out to crack the `crime by rhyme', suspicion soon falls on the household and staff at Yew Tree Lodge. Joan Hickson, Timothy West, Peter Davison, Tom Wilkinson, Stacy Dorning, Clive Merrison and Rachel Bell star.
Cast and crew
Cast
- Miss Marple
- Joan Hickson
- Rex Fortescue
- Timothy West
- Lance Fortescue
- Peter Davison
- Jennifer Fortescue
- Rachel Bell
- Det Insp Neele
- Tom Wilkinson
- Percival Fortescue
- Clive Merrison
- Adele Fortescue
- Stacy Dorning
- Vivian Dubois
- Martyn Stanbridge
- Mary Dove
- Selina Cadell
- Miss Henderson
- Fabia Drake
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