Murder is Easy

Murder is Easy is the second episode of Series 4.

Previous Episode: A Pocket Full of Rye

Next Episode: They Do it With Mirrors

Transmitted: 13th September 2009

Viewers: 4.86 million

Synopsis
While travelling on a train to London, Miss Marple is told by a woman she has never met, Lavinia Pinkerton, that she is certain there have been two murders in her village of Wychwood. When Lavinia dies in what is purported to be an accident - she fell, or was pushed, down the escalator in a tube station, Miss Marple decides to visit Wychwood and see what she could find. As Miss Marple is apt to say, one English village is like another and Wychwood has its secrets like any other. The first woman to die was Florrie Gibbs who, despite being experienced in such things, supposedly ate poison mushrooms she picked herself. The second was the local vicar who failed to wear his mask when using poison near his beehives. The third is a young woman, who, it is said, accidentally drank hat dye instead of her cough medicine. Miss Marple finds a clue that points to a motive with origins many years before and a secret someone will do anything, including murder, to keep hidden.

Differences to the Original

 * This was not originally a Miss Marple book.
 * It significantly changes the original, by removing, adding and changing characters and adding subplots.
 * The murder's motive is different.
 * Luke Fitzwilliam works with Miss Marple to solve the murders.
 * Gordon Whitfield and Giles Ellsworthy do not appear and Honoria Waynflete is shown as a mentally disturbed much younger woman.