I didn't cotton on until part 3 (3 x 50 minute episodes) that Alan Plater had adapted it. An interesting cast makes the most of Christie's 'locked room' type scenario, with Ursula Howells probably the stand-out. Her father Herbert wrote 'Hymnus Paradisi' after the death of her brother in 1935. She was a West End actress and appeared on TV in things like A Rather English Marriage.
Other cast: Renée Asherson, Sylvia Sims, Ralph Michael (thus somehow evoking The Way to the Stars, Ice Cold in Alex and Dead of Night!), Joan Sims, Samantha Bond, Joan Hickson, Simon Shepherd, John Castle as the investigating detective and Kevin Whately as his no. 2.
We're warming up to Hickson a bit but she does seem pretty much emotionless.
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