Not my favourite, but it had some good points, like Penelope Wilton and Joan Collins as the sisters Carrie Louise and Ruth :-p and some other bits of good acting here and there. It starts with Miss Marple (Julia McKenzie) talking to her old friend Ruth who tells her of a fire at her sister's house, and says "someone in that house wishes my sister harm" - "You believe me? Nothing's ever surprised you, has it Jane? Because you always think the worst" and Marple "The worst is so often true".
Marple accepts her friend request and pays Carrie Louise a visit. She lives with her husband (the third one I think) Lewis Serrocold, her adopted child Gina and her real daughter Mildred who never stood a chance, because CL was always overindulgent with Gina and neglecting toward her, all because the wanted to 'make no difference' between the two daughters. :-/ There is also Steven, her stepson by her second husband, and Wally: Gina's American husband, who always looks away as if indifferent, but quite handsome, specially when he smiles. He's homesick and Marple says "there's only one known cure for that" and he says "try telling that to Princess. What have I got to give her? Two clammy rooms in a gas station" .
There's also a strange guy called Edgar Lawson who seems to be crazy, one of the guys the Serrocolds want to help, and then Christian came in, asking Marple "Is her heart strong?". Christian is supposed to be CL's stepson from her first husband, but he looked more like he could have been her father, not her son, or even stepson.
While the family is rehearsing a play, Edgar comes in with a gun and there's a bit of commotion, some people are scared except CL who says that Edgar "is harmless". Later Christian if found dead, killed with Wally's knife, so the silly man tries to run away in a bicycle.. When the police arrests him, Gina goes crazy, then she shows them a secret passage to prove that anyone could have done it. When interrogated, she asks "you're not really going to arrest my Wally are you?". Then she asks him: "where were you going, what about me?" but he says nothing so she goes away. She cries, and Steve tries to make her laugh, and he kisses her, and she thinks that Wally doesn't care so plans to go with him. It turns out that Louis was involved in a financial fraud, because he had put all his money into the facility (the place where they try to give a better chance to young men who have been in prison). He killed Christian while Edgar was helping him with the big scene, and Edgar was his real son, and when he ran away Louis followed him, and they both drowned in the lake, somehow.
At the end they are all ready to go away and leave the house empty. Gina is going with Steven when she sees Wally alone and goes to him, they talk and he tells her to stay and she says "it's all settled" meaning she has to go with Steven, and Wally says "then unsettle it", and she says "I can't believe you still want me" and he says something like there never was a moment when he didn't want her, and she goes to America with him to live on a farm, Wyoming I think, and they are happy.
It would have been a lovely romance if he had put a bit of passion into it. Most of the time he really seemed indifferent.
I liked when Gina went crazy over Wally's arrest, though. That was a nice moment.
Generally, it was a little mess.
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