starring Joan Hickson (pictured) and directed by Roy Boulting. Miss Marple is on the case when a rash of poison pen letters in an East Anglian village stir up memories of a long-forgotten local ...

Joan Bogle Hickson, OBE (5 August 1906 – 17 October 1998) was an English actress of theatre, film and television. She was known for her role as Agatha Christie's Miss Marple in the television ...

Joan Hickson, stage, screen and television actress who became an international celebrity when she played Miss Marple, Agatha Christie’s sharp-witted elderly detective, in a BBC television series ...

A feature-length episode of the classic sleuth series. Family intrigue, midnight assailants and a vanishing cleric at Bertram's Hotel challenge Miss Marple. Feature-length classic mystery starring ...

Miss Marple looks set to return to screens ... and has been portrayed over the years by several actors, including Joan Hickson in the 1980s BBC TV series, and later Geraldine McEwan and Julia ...

To match the performances of Joan Hickson as Miss Marple would probably be impossible. Hickson, who filled the role on television from 1984 until 1992, was almost eerily well suited to it ...

The residents of a quiet English village begin to receive nasty, threatening letters. The wife of the local vicar calls in her friend Miss Marple to investigate.

Actress Joan Hickson ... when at age 78 she was cast as Miss Marple, the detective created by crime writer Agatha Christie, in a British Broadcasting Corp. television series shown in about ...