Murder She Said
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- Year:
- 1961
- 87 min
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Station annouuncer: The train standing
at Platform 2 is the 4:50
for Ealing Broadway. Hanwell.
Hayes. West Drayton.
Langley. Taplow. Milchester
and Brackhampton.
- Tickets, please.
- A woman has been strangled.
- Pardon?
- A man strangled a woman in a train.
- I saw it out there!
- Strangled?
Yes, strangled.
You must do something.
Me? Well...
Madam, don't you think you had a nap
and maybe had a bad dream?
Young man, I was not dreaming.
What are you going to do about it?
Well... we'll be in Brackhampton
in about five minutes.
- I'll report it then.
- Thank you.
- Can I have your details?
- Of course.
Miss Jane Marple.
- Marple?
- Marple.
Old Pasture Lane.
- Milchester.
- Milchester. I see.
I'll report it
to the stationmaster...
- Yes, please do.
- Thank you.
A bad dream indeed.
All right, Lucy, I'll answer that.
- Good morning...
- Not today.
Inspector Craddock, County CID.
Oh, I am so sorry.
Do come in, Inspector.
I've been going through
all the papers for the last two days
and not a word about the murder.
I suppose the police asked the press
to say nothing for now.
Do sit down.
Lull the murderer into a false sense
of security, then pounce!
What's that?
Oh, how stupid of me. I am so sorry.
Lucy!
You will have some tea, won't you?
- Oh...
- Tea for the Inspector, please.
Yes, ma'am.
Well now, have you got him?
Well, I... that is...
...we've come to the conclusion that
what you saw on the train was...
...a man and a woman...
Yes, as I said.
I mean...
perhaps they were honeymooners?
Inspector, I may be
what is termed a spinster,
but I do know the difference
between horseplay and murder.
Yes, Miss Marple, but there's been
and no hospital has treated
any such woman.
She was blonde,
with a fur collar coat.
No such woman was seen getting on or
off a train alone or accompanied.
Of course not, she was dead!
The tracks were searched for the
whole length of the line - negative.
Oh, so you don't believe me?
I didn't mean to imply that.
- You did.
- Not at all.
What then?
on a busy train
without our finding out about it.
I'm sure you mean well, Inspector,
but if you imagine
that I am going to sit back
as a dotty old maid,
you are very much mistaken.
Good day!
I'm sorry, The Hatrack Hanging,
Falcon Smith's latest,
we haven't received our copy yet.
Plain inefficiency.
- Let me know the moment it comes in.
- Of course, Mrs Stainton.
- Good morning, Miss Marple.
- Good morning, Mr Stringer.
Good morning, Hilda.
One moment...
...The Hatrack Hanging,
I've been keeping it for you.
- Would you say I am unstable?
- Certainly not.
- In full possession of my faculties?
- Absolutely...
- Not given to hallucinations?
- No.
Thank you, Mr Stringer.
- What?
Apparently,
I saw a young man and woman
in the throes of connubial bliss.
If I were you, Miss Marple,
I would write to the Chief Constable.
Mr Stringer, how many detective
novels have we read over the years?
Lmpossible to say.
Certainly hundreds.
knowledge of the criminal mind?
Most assuredly.
Well, this is where we put
that knowledge to the test.
- We?
- Yes, we!
So it has come in!
Oh, has it?
Well, I think I have first call.
You won't like it. Too obvious.
The mother did it, of course.
How do you know? It's just come in.
It always is with Falcon Smith.
A deprived child, you know.
Crumpets for tea,
Mr Stringer, if you care to join me.
Indeed I would, Miss Marple.
Ah, yes, here we are.
I calculate the five o'clock express
to Brackhampton overtook my train
somewhere about there.
How can you be sure?
five minutes to Brackhampton.
He came in more than a minute
after the murder.
So that makes it six minutes before
Brackhampton at, say, 30 mph.
So... about there!
The body, Miss Marple?
That was thrown from the train
between here and Brackhampton.
- Of course not.
The murderer returned before the
search and disposed of the body.
By Jove, the police will want
to investigate now.
They say there is no investigation.
- Surely, a fresh search...
- Yes, but we will conduct our own.
- Eh?
- Yes, Mr Stringer.
I recommend
You and I are going to take
There must be something somewhere.
A body can't be thrown out of a
fast-moving train without some trace.
If we linger here much longer,
we shall certainly be apprehended.
Nonsense! No one will give two
tracklayers a second glance.
I'm not convinced
our disguises are adequate.
A shoe, a bit of cloth... something.
Our timetable
may have been out of date,
but I'm sure
the 7:
15 is still running.- Very possibly.
- It could be most dangerous up here.
Undoubtedly.
Miss Marple!
- Miss Marple!
- Yes?
There you are!
Really?
Consistent with something
having been dumped from a train.
If it was the body,
it would roll down and finish up
against this wall.
Then where is it?
That, Mr Stringer, is the question.
It could be buried.
You'd need a pick or a shovel.
No, this is hardly an ideal spot
for disposing of a body.
Unless...
From her fur collar, I think.
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