The Pale Horse

The Pale Horse is the first episode of Series 5.

Previous Episode: Why Didn't they Ask Evans?

Next Episode: The Secret of Chimneys

Transmitted: 30th August 2010

Viewers: 5.11 million

Synopsis
Miss Marple is shocked when she received a note from an old friend, Father Gorman, only to read in the newspaper the very same day that he was murdered. He had attended a dying woman, Mrs Davis, who died the previous evening and it was on his way home that he was apparently attacked. The police have put it down to a mugging but the letter Miss Marple received from him intrigues her: a list of surnames and a quote from the bible. The policeman in charge of the case, Inspector Lejeune is skeptical about it all being a murder but when Miss Marple inspects Mrs Davis' rooms, she finds an identical list than that sent to her by Father Gorman and also a reference to the Pale Horse Inn in Much Deeping, Hampshire. She soon checks into the inn and pursues her own investigation.

Differences to the Original

 * This was originally not a Miss Marple novel.
 * It eliminates the characters of Ariadne Oliver, Colonel Despard, Rhoda and Mrs Dane Calthrope.
 * It creates the characters of Captain Cottam, Kanga Cottam and Lydia Harsnet.