

Miss Marple: A Murder Is Announced
1985-02-28 · 51 min / episode · ★ 7.5
An advertisement announcing the time and place of a forthcoming murder appears among the ads of the paper in the small village of Chipping Cleghorn.
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- Agatha Christie
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