A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation starring June Whitfield as the sharp-witted spinster sleuth. In the sleepy little English country village of St Mary Mead, all is not as it first appears. Under a seemingly peaceful exterior lurk intrigue, guilt, deception - and murder. Colonel Protheroe, local magistrate and landowner, is the most detested man in the village. Arrogant, unpleasant and overbearing, everyone from his own wife to the local vicar wishes he were dead. And very soon he is - shot in the head in the vicar"s own study. A visiting artist confesses to the murder, but residents saw him elsewhere at the time the Colonel was shot. If he didn"t do it, who did? Is he protecting the Colonel"s wife whom he loves? Faced with a surfeit of suspects, only the inscrutable Miss Marple can unravel the tangled web of clues. A trap is set, and Miss Marple"s theory is put to the test when the killer is finally unmasked. This full-cast dramatisation of Agatha...