![]() ![]() ![]() Even Greg Rusedski appeared, as a Wimbledon opponent of tennis-playing Nevile Strange (played by Greg Wise.) Saffron Burrows was a glamorous former Mrs Strange, and Eileen Atkins played the invalid aunt whose lovely house accommodates the party of suspect. The cast of this version was filled with famous names. Needless to say, Mr Treves is soon found dead. The key to the plot is the idea that the story of a murder occurs long before the commission of the crime, but the key question is: whose murder is being contemplated? There are plenty of red herrings, especially those arising from a story told by the old lawyer Mr Treves (here, he was a barrister rather than a solicitor) about a youthful criminal of long ago whom he had recognised again. My expectations were low, but I resolved not to make too many comparisons with the original book, and in fact it proved to be an eminently watchable programme Miss Marple fitted into it pretty well. Jane Marple doesn’t even appear in it, so I rather feared the worst from Kevin Elyot’s adaptation. ![]() The book is a Christie with a clever plot that I enjoyed a good deal when I first read it at a tender age. I was never wild about the version of Agatha Christie’s Marple starring Geraldine McEwan as the great detective, and so it took me a long time to get round to watching Towards Zero. ![]()
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