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The Sittaford Mystery is a murder mystery novel written by Agatha Christie that is also known as Murder At Hazelmoor. Sherlock Holmes, pipe-puffing hero of crime fiction, confers with his colleague Dr. Watson; together these characters popularized the genre. ...
Daniel Defoes Robinson Crusoe; title page of 1719 newspaper edition A novel (from French nouvelle, new) is an extended fictional narrative in prose. ...
Agatha Christie Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE (September 15, 1890 â January 12, 1976), was a English crime fiction writer. ...
Plot
Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow. In a remote house in the middle of Dartmoor, six shadowy figures huddle around a small round table for a seance. Tension rises as the spirits spell out a chilling message: 'Captain Trevelyan...dead...murder'. Is this black magic or simply a macabre joke? The only way to be certain is to locate Captain Trevelyan. Unfortunately, his home is six miles away and, with snow drifts blocking the roads, someone will have to make the journey on foot. Dartmoor is a National Park in the centre of the English county of Devon. ...
The novel is the first in which the author incorporates the supernatural into one of her long works. The supernatural (Latin: super- exceeding + nature) refers to forces and phenomena which are beyond ordinary scientific understanding. ...
TV Film The novel was produced as a Miss Marple mystery as part of its irregular series featuring Geraldine McEwan as Marple, and guest-starred Timothy Dalton as Trevelyan. Filming began in 2006, with major changes made to the plot (Trevelyan being present at the seance, for example) – especially in order to incorporate Marple into the story. It is the second film in the series in which the killer's identity is different from the one in the novel. It aired in the UK on April 30, 2006, in ITV 1's 9:00 PM slot. Joan Hickson as Miss Marple Jane Marple, usually known as Miss Marple, is a fictional character appearing in many Agatha Christie novels. ...
Geraldine McEwan as Miss Marple Geraldine McEwan (b. ...
Timothy Dalton Timothy Peter Dalton (born March 21, 1946) is a Welsh-born British actor of stage and screen, famous for being chosen as the fourth official James Bond. ...
ITV1 is the primary television channel broadcast in the United Kingdom by the ITV network. ...
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