They Do it with Mirrors

When Jane Marple goes to stay with her old, and rather frail, friend Carrie-Louise at her sprawling Victorian Gothic mansion, which is not only a family home but also a rehabilitation centre for delinquent boys, she soon begins to realise that all is not well there. Then an attempt is made on the life of Carrie-Louise’s husband, her step-son is shot to death and someone tries to poison Carrie-Louise herself. Can Marple protect her friend and help the police unmask a brutal, and possibly deranged, killer?

Year: 1952
Detective: Miss Marple
Location: England

Cast of characters

Jane Marple. Also: Juliet Bellever, Inspector Curry, Ernie Gregg, Christian Gulbrandsen, Gina and Wally Hudd, Edgar Lawson, Dr. Maverick, Alex Restarick, Carrie-Louise and Lewis Serrocold, Mildred Strete, Ruth Van Rydock

Publishing history

Publishing: First published in 1952 by William Collins Sons & Co. in London, and as 'Murder With Mirrors' by Dodd, Mead & Co. in New York. TV: Adapted in 1985 under the name 'Murder With Mirrors' by CBS Television in the US with Helen Hayes as Marple. It was also adapted in 1992 by the BBC as 'They Do It With Mirrors' with Joan Hickson as Marple, which was also shown on PBS in the United States.

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