Sleeping Murder

Sleeping Murder is the first episode of Series 2. Previous Episode: A Murder is Announced

Next Episode: The Moving Finger

Transmitted: 5th February 2006

Viewers: 8.74

Synopsis
Miss Jane Marple is asked to help Gwenda, a wealthy young woman who has bought a house on the English coast, only to experience disturbing visions. Thanks to Miss Marple's investigations, Gwenda discovers that, instead of spending all her life in India, she had lived in the house as a child. The visions are actually flashes of memory and she realizes she witnessed the murder of a beautiful woman named Helen.

Differences to the Original

 * Some of Helen's suitors were not included.
 * A travelling company of performers called The Funnybones were introduced.
 * Dr Kennedy became the half brother of Claire Kennedy, the first wife of Kevin Halliday, who had assumed the name of Helen to avoid blackmail. Although Helen and Claire are one and the same in this adaptation, they were different people in the original novel.