I liked it. Marple (Geraldine McEwan) is staying at a little village (the name I can't remember) to attend colonel Appleton's funeral (I think it was he who many years ago told her that her young man had died in the war... so they were somehow official??). Jerry Burton (James D'Arcy) and his sister Joanna (Emilia Fox) come to live here in the country for a while: doctor's orders after he injured himself (he had an accident while riding his bike utterly drunk). Anonymous letters are received by almost everyone in town, and when Mrs Symmington is found dead everyone thinks of suicide, believing the letter true. Her maid, however, is found clearly murdered a week after the "suicide".
Other characters are: Mr Pye (John Sessions) who I believe implied that the colonel killed himself because of all the gossip concerning his relationship with Mr Pye himself... I'm not sure though, this is what I thought , so the colonel was not killed.
Next person to die is Mrs Symmington. Her daughter Megan (Talulah Riley) is invited to stay at Joanna and Jerry's house, so Megan and Jerry spend a week together and secretly fall for each other, so when she discovers poor maid Agnes' body she goes to him.
Another important character is Elsie Holland, Mr Symmington's boys' nanny, a beautiful girl (Kelly Brook) who has never received one of those nasty letters, maybe the only one in town who hasn't.
Spoiler warning, now the final solution.
Jerry is afraid Megan could be the one who wrote those letters because she herself admitted very candidly that she doesn't like anyone in town "because they don't like her", but Miss Marple knows the truth and asks for her help.
She goes to her stepfather to blackmail him, and that night he tries to kill her, but the police (and Jerry) stop him and save her. Mr Symmington had written those fake letters so that everyone would believe his wife committed suicide, but in truth he killed her, and the maid too because she had not seen anyone deliver any mail to their house that day. He wanted to keep his good reputation but also wanted Elsie (I say, Marple understood this when she saw him looking at Elsie's breast, when they were all gathered at a funeral). At the end, Joanna stays in town, probably to stay with the local doctor, while Jerry wants to go away, but before going he takes Marple's advice and goes to Megan. It's a very nice scene: in the garden, she has a pair of black trousers on and 'ballerina shoes' in a sort of Audrey Hepburn style, and he's quite dashing in his red shirt (he looks good in colours) and he makes a nice speech and then he kisses her. Quite a pretty scene, with Marple looking at them through the window with an awww expression on her face :-)
The thing goes like this: he says he's going away, and Marple says "perhaps what you're looking for is right here under your nose". He understands she's talking about Megan and says "she doesn't want me Miss Marple", then she talks about the man she once let go and never came back from the war, encouraging him to try again. He goes to her. Megan:"thanks for pulling me out of the oven" :-)
She didn't know what else to say :-p
Jerry: "I'm absolutely sure, you see, quite quite certain that to look after you, to make you happy and keep you from harm is now the purpose of my life. Is there anything I can say or do to make you reconsider?" she shakes her head but keeps looking at him, as if waiting for more, then he has her stand up and he kisses her and she kisses him, and Marple watches at the window :-)
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