Well, this is a diabolical and fiendishly clever story, somewhat tweaked by Lewis - it was not, for example, originally a Marple mystery at all. I wondered if the curse placing scene was Lewis's mischievous nod to Hammer films, but apparently this flavour was in the original 1961 novel, and may have been an allusion to the novels of Dennis Wheatley which were popular at the time.
Agatha's poison of choice for this one is Thallium.
With Julia McKenzie are JJ Feild, Neil Pearson, Jonathan Cake, Nigel Planer, Susan Lynch, Pauline Collins, Tom Ward, Sarah Alexander, Amy Manson, Bill Paterson and - briefly and didn't recognise her - Holly Willoughby! And - not quite so briefly - Nicholas Parsons.
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