In Agatha Christie’s They Do It with Mirrors, Miss Marple is asked to go check on an old friend Carrie-Louise, whose sister fears she is in danger. Miss Marple goes to stay at Carrie-Louise’s home, which is on the grounds of a rehabilitation center for delinquent boys that’s run by her husband. Shortly after her arrival, a troubled young man shoots at Carrie-Louise’s husband; Carrie-Louise’s step-son is killed; and poison is found in Carrie-Louise’s medication.
I listened to this as a BBC radio play, a particularly admirable adaptation in that the fine shadings of the dramatization led me right to the solution. I don’t think the printed page would have had the same effect. For that, I’ll forgive it the exceptionally bad American accent of Carrie-Lousie’s grandson-in-law.
Yes! That grandson-in-law has an appalling accent. It switches from south Bronx to Texas to Louisiana–all in the same paragraph sometimes.
But overall, it’s a very good adaptation.
Jason: wow, you could identify regions out of that? I couldn’t even do that much, my ears were in such pain. =>