Bringemovies
← Browse TV Shows
Miss Marple: The Body in the Library
TITLE DETAILS

Miss Marple: The Body in the Library

1984-12-26 · 52 min / episode · ★ 7.5

Crime · Drama · Mystery

Amateur detective Miss Jane Marple investigates the murder of a young woman whose body is found in the library at Gossington Hall, home of Colonel and Mrs. Arthur Bantry.

Open detail page

Trailers are previews, not full movies.

No authorized playback source configured. Use the legal watch options below.

Production details

Creators
Agatha Christie, T.R. Bowen
Production companies
BBC, A+E Studios, Seven Network, Agatha Christie
Countries
United Kingdom
Status
Ended

Top Cast

Joan HicksonJoan HicksonMiss Marple
Gwen WatfordGwen WatfordDolly Bantry
Andrew CruickshankAndrew CruickshankConway Jefferson
Frederick JaegerFrederick JaegerColonel Melchett
David HorovitchDavid HorovitchDetective Inspector Slack
Ciaran MaddenCiaran MaddenAdelaide Jefferson
Anthony SmeeBasil Blake
Jess ConradJess ConradRaymond Starr

Title information and images are supplied by TMDb. Explore our discovery guide for advice on comparing metadata and legal viewing options.

Where to watch

Availability provided by JustWatch via TMDb. Offers can change. Provider links are listed on TMDb; full playback requires a separately authorized source.

Purchase

Google Play Movies

View authorized watch options on TMDb

Seasons & episodes

Recommendations

Agatha Christie's Marple
★ 7.9
Agatha Christie's Marple2004Crime · Drama · Mystery

The adventures of Miss Jane Marple, an elderly spinster living in the quiet little village of St Mary Mead. During her many visits to friends and relatives in other villages, Miss Marple often stumbles upon mysterious murders which she helps solve. Although the police are sometimes reluctant to accept Miss Marple's help, her reputation and unparalleled powers of observation eventually win them over.

Barnaby Jones
★ 7.0
Barnaby Jones1973Crime · Drama · Mystery

Barnaby Jones is a television detective series starring Buddy Ebsen and Lee Meriwether as father- and daughter-in-law who run a private detective firm in Los Angeles. The show ran on CBS from January 28, 1973 to April 3, 1980, beginning as a midseason replacement. William Conrad guest starred as Frank Cannon of Cannon on the first episode of Barnaby Jones, "Requiem for a Son" and the two series had a two-part crossover episode in 1975, "The Deadly Conspiracy".

Dalziel and Pascoe
★ 6.4
Dalziel and Pascoe1996Crime · Drama · Mystery

In the fictional Yorkshire town of Wetherton, the unlikely duo of politically incorrect elephant-in-a-China-shop-copper DS Andrew Dalziel (pronounced Dee-ell) and his more sensitive and university educated sidekick DS, later DI, Peter Pascoe is always on hand to solve the classic murder mystery, while maintaining down-to-Earth wit and humour.

Agatha Christie's Poirot
★ 8.2
Agatha Christie's Poirot1989Crime · Drama · Mystery

From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions.

Thorne
★ 6.2
Thorne2010Crime · Drama · Mystery

DI Tom Thorne finds himself dragged back into the nightmares of his past as he races against time to find a serial killer who carries out unusual attacks on young women.

Ordeal by Innocence
★ 6.9
Ordeal by Innocence2018Crime · Drama · Mystery

The black sheep of the Argyll family, Jack Argyll, was accused of murdering their matriarch a year ago, but now a man shows up on their doorstep claiming Jack’s innocence. The family must come to terms with this news and the fact that the real killer might still be among them.

Murder in a Small Town
★ 6.7
Murder in a Small Town2024Crime · Drama

Karl Alberg moves to a quiet coastal town to soothe a psyche that has been battered by big-city police work but finds himself needing to call upon all his skills to solve the murders that continue to wash up on his shore.

The Inspector Lynley Mysteries
★ 7.4
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries2002Crime · Drama

DS Barbara Havers is assigned to work with the upper-crust DI Thomas Lynley to solve murders.

Perry Mason
★ 7.7
Perry Mason1957Crime · Drama · Mystery

The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.

Alfred Hitchcock Presents
★ 7.8
Alfred Hitchcock Presents1955Crime · Drama · Mystery

A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.

Magpie Murders
★ 7.1
Magpie Murders2022Crime · Drama · Mystery

An editor gets drawn into a web of intrigue and murder when she receives an unfinished manuscript.

Baretta
★ 6.5
Baretta1975Crime · Drama · Mystery

Baretta is an American detective television series which ran on ABC from 1975 to 1978. The show was a milder version of a successful 1973–74 ABC series, Toma, starring Tony Musante as chameleon-like, real-life New Jersey police officer David Toma. While popular, Toma received intense criticism at the time for its realistic and frequent depiction of police and criminal violence. When Musante left the series after a single season, the concept was retooled as Baretta, with Robert Blake in the title role.

The Crow Girl
★ 6.5
The Crow Girl2025Crime · Drama

DCI Jeanette Kilburn and eminent psychotherapist Dr. Sophia Craven join forces to hunt the killer of young men. The investigation takes Jeanette and Sophia into a dangerous world of historic abuse and murder.

Inspector George Gently
★ 7.9
Inspector George Gently2008Crime · Mystery

Crime drama set in the 1960s about an old-school detective trying to come to terms with a time when the lines between the police and criminals have become blurred.

Annika
★ 7.0
Annika2021Crime · Drama · Mystery

The sharp, witty and enigmatic DI Annika Strandhed, as she heads up a new specialist Marine Homicide Unit (MHU) that is tasked with investigating the unexplained, brutal, and seemingly unfathomable murders.

Homicide: Life on the Street
★ 8.1
Homicide: Life on the Street1993Crime · Drama · Mystery

An American police procedural chronicling the work of a fictional version of the Baltimore Police Department's Homicide Unit.

Scream: The TV Series
★ 6.9
Scream: The TV Series2015Crime · Drama · Mystery

What starts as a YouTube video going viral, soon leads to problems for the teenagers of Lakewood and serves as the catalyst for a murder that opens up a window to the town's troubled past. Everyone has secrets. Everyone tells lies. Everyone is fair game.

Coroner
★ 6.9
Coroner2019Crime · Drama · Mystery

Jenny Cooper investigates unexplained or sudden deaths in the city of Toronto. Fierce and quick-witted, Jenny is a newly-widowed single mother with secrets of her own to unearth.

The Chelsea Detective
★ 6.3
The Chelsea Detective2022Crime · Mystery

Detective Inspector Max Arnold lives on a battered houseboat at the end of Cheyne Walk after separating from his art dealer wife Astrid. The son of a local bookshop owner, Max is a far cry from the affluent elite whose crimes he'll help solve along with D.C. Priya Shamsie.

Signora Volpe
★ 7.2
Signora Volpe2022Crime · Drama · Mystery

After years as an MI6 operative, Sylvia winds up in a village in Umbria visiting her sister Isabel and becomes involved in a murder investigation.

Similar titles

Fatal Vision
★ 7.0
Fatal Vision1984Drama

A retiree spends nine years relentlessly seeking to prove that his son-in-law, a former Green Beret Army doctor, murdered his pregnant wife and two daughters.

Poster unavailable
Not rated
The Jazz Age1968Drama

An anthology of 1920s set plays and musicals, transmissioned from 10 September to 10 December 1968 on BBC One.

Poster unavailable
Not rated
Masters of DoomDrama

Planet of the Apes
★ 6.9
Planet of the Apes1974Drama

Two astronauts and a sympathetic chimp friend are fugitives in a future Earth dominated by a civilization of humanoid apes. Based on the 1968 Planet of the Apes film and its sequels, which were inspired by the novel of the same name by Pierre Boulle.

The View from Daniel Pike
Not rated
The View from Daniel Pike1971Crime · Drama

The View from Daniel Pike is a 1971–73 Scottish TV drama series created and written by Edward Boyd, and starring Roddy McMillan as Daniel Pike, a hard-boiled private detective based in Glasgow. A few of the stories were later adapted into book form.

Murder in the First
★ 5.8
Murder in the First2014Crime · Drama · Mystery

Murder in the First follows homicide detectives Terry English and Hildy Mulligan as they investigate a multitude of tragedies in San Francisco.

The Assets
★ 6.9
The Assets2014Drama

1985 serves as the backdrop to the final showdown of the Cold War when Sandy and her partner Jeanne Vertefeuille vowed to find the mole that would turn out to be the most notorious traitor in US history, Aldrich Ames. Sandy is in a race against time to save the Soviet intelligence officers from being caught and killed. Living her own double life at home, this beautiful wife and mother vowed to stop at nothing until she uncovered the truth.

The Witch's Diner
★ 7.6
The Witch's Diner2021Drama · Mystery

After her perfect life unravels, a woman teams up with a wish-granting sorceress to run a magical diner, but the cost of success may be higher than she imagined.

The Quatermass Experiment
★ 6.7
The Quatermass Experiment1953Drama

Set in the near future against the background of a British space programme, the story of the first crewed flight into space, supervised by Professor Bernard Quatermass of the British Experimental Rocket Group.

Poster unavailable
Not rated
Fear NotDrama

The story of prolific serial killer Stephen Morin — accused of more crimes than Ted Bundy — and the unlikely bond he formed with Margy Palm, the last woman he ever kidnapped.

My Love in the Countryside
★ 10.0
My Love in the Countryside2024Drama

An under-skilled actress is sent away to a rural town to learn about love – will she find what she seeks in the village chief's son?

Superstar
★ 6.2
Superstar2025Drama

Set deep in the chaos of the early 2000s, this series reimagines the life of pop icon Tamara — and her metamorphosis into Yurena — as never seen before.

The Case Files of Jeweler Richard
★ 6.0
The Case Files of Jeweler Richard2020Drama · Mystery

One night, a college student with a strong sense of justice, Seigi Nakata, saved a gorgeous foreigner, Richard, who was being harassed by some drunks. When Seigi found out that Richard was a jeweler, he asked for an appraisal on a ring with a shady history; one which his grandmother had kept secret until she died. The appraisal had revealed her past, truth, and desire. It led Seigi to work as a part-time employee for Richard's jewelry store, the "Jewelry Etranger" in Ginza. While solving various "mysteries", the relationship between Richard and Seigi gradually changes.

The Mess You Leave Behind
★ 6.9
The Mess You Leave Behind2020Drama · Mystery

A teacher starts her job at a high school but is haunted by a suspicious death that occurred there weeks before and begins fearing for her own life.

Small Sacrifices
★ 6.0
Small Sacrifices1989Crime · Drama

A peculiar and disturbing case catches the attention of the police when a young mother and her children, all severely injured, show up in a hospital's emergency room.

Witches of East End
★ 7.3
Witches of East End2013Drama

The adventures of Joanna Beauchamp and her two adult daughters Freya and Ingrid -- both of whom unknowingly are their family's next generation of witches -- who lead seemingly quiet, uneventful modern day lives in Long Island's secluded seaside town of East Haven. When Freya becomes engaged to a young, wealthy newcomer, a series of events forces Joanna to admit to her daughters they are, in fact, powerful and immortal witches.

Island at War
★ 7.9
Island at War2004Drama

Island at War is a British television series that tells the story of the German Occupation of the Channel Islands. It primarily focuses on three local families: the upper class Dorrs, the middle class Mahys and the working class Jonases, and four German officers. The fictional island of St. Gregory serves as a stand-in for the real-life islands Jersey and Guernsey, and the story is compiled from the events on both islands. Produced by Granada Television in Manchester, Island at War had an estimated budget of £9,000,000 and was filmed on location in the Isle of Man from August 2003 to October 2003. When the series was shown in the UK, it appeared in six 70-minute episodes.

The Blossoming Love
★ 8.0
The Blossoming Love2025Drama

In ancient times, the Human Emperor, Zhao Ming, petitioned on behalf of the people and sacrificed himself to resist the divine realm. After Zhao Ming's fall, his beloved, Hun Dunzhu, risked her life to save a wisp of his soul, setting up the cycle of reincarnation for eternity. In the distant future, Zhao Ming reincarnated as Xie Xuechen, the leader of the Immortal Alliance, while Hun Dunzhu became the Holy Maiden Mu Xuanling in the Dark Domain. The two finally reunited in the mortal realm but had forgotten their past, becoming adversaries in a "righteous versus evil" struggle. Mu Xuanling saved the heavily injured Xie Xuechen in the Dark Domain and coerced him to travel together in gratitude for saving his life.

Histórica Región de Murcia
Not rated
Histórica Región de Murcia2008Drama

Historical fiction miniseries set in the Region of Murcia, told through standalone episodes that recreate events, anecdotes, and legends dating from the 13th to the 19th centuries, each unfolding in a different municipality of the Region and dramatizing an event or story based on real or traditional local history.

Hustlers Gamblers Crooks
★ 6.0
Hustlers Gamblers Crooks2024Crime

Hustlers Gamblers Crooks features true stories of high-flying hustlers, gamblers and con artists, told by those who lived them. Structured like a Hollywood thriller, it is full of poignant moments. Cheer on these underdogs who risk everything to change their future.

Your favorites

Recently viewed

Watch

Choose an authorized server.

Full video from an operator-configured authorized source. Official trailers use a separate player. If a server fails, retry or select another authorized server.

Legal watch options

Official trailer

Trailer preview only. Press Play to start.

Privacy choices

Favorites stay in your browser. Movie images load from TMDb. YouTube trailers contact YouTube only after you allow external media and choose a trailer. Advertising consent, if ads are enabled, is managed separately by the operator’s certified CMP.

Privacy policy

After allowing external media, choose the trailer button to load its player.