Where is chimneys in miss marple

Dervla Kirwan Bundle as Bundle. Ruth Jones Blenkinsopp as Blenkinsopp. Alex Knight Jaffers as Jaffers. Stephen Dillane Finch as Finch. Nicci Brighten Madeleine as Madeleine uncredited. John Strickland. Storyline Edit. A lavish weekend party sees Miss Marple accompany Lady Virginia Revel to her family home of Chimneys - a house which was once prized for its diplomatic gatherings until a rare diamond was stolen from the premises over twenty years ago.

Virginia, the daughter of Miss Marple's late cousin, must decide by the end of the weekend whether to accept a marriage proposal from George Lomax or to follow her heart and the courtship of another more adventurous suitor, Anthony Cade. Dismayed by the odd array of guests, including socialist spinster Miss Blenkinsopp, Caterham's formidable eldest daughter Bundle and the quietly inscrutable maidservant Treadwell, Lomax castigates his affable assistant Bill Eversleigh, who also has a soft spot for Virginia.

It becomes apparent that Count Ludwig has taken a personal interest in Chimneys and a contract for the sale of the house is drawn up with Caterham. That same evening, in the middle of the night, the house guests are stirred from their beds by security and the Count cannot be found.

The sound of a gunshot is heard from a secret passageway in the house and Count Ludwig is found dead in the arms of Anthony Cade. Why is Cade at Chimneys? And is Virginia's suitor being framed for murder? However, the main reason behind the house party proves to be the visiting Count Von Stainach, whom Lomax wants Lord Caterham to entertain in order to sign a deal for iron ore that post-World War II England desperately needs.

Unbeknownst to everyone else, Lady Virginia has met and fallen in love with a young man named Anthony Cade, who has decided to crash the party in order to prevent her from marrying Lomax. However, the house party takes a dark turn when someone shoots and kills Count Von Stainach in one of the manor's secret passages. And since Anthony was the first to stumble across the count's body, he becomes "Suspect Number One". Thankfully, the movie proved to be a surprisingly entertaining film filled with some humor, strong characterizations, plenty of romance - both charming and poignantly sad, and two very puzzling mysteries.

Although one mystery surrounded the disappearance of the Brents' diamond and the other featured the murder of Count Von Stainach, both proved to be connected to one another. I have read the synopsis of Christie's novel. I must admit that it read more like a political thriller than a murder mystery.

And a part of me felt somewhat relieved that screenwriter Rutman did not attempt a faithful adaptation of the novel. Some have claimed that Anthony Cade, who was featured as the main investigator in the novel, had been pushed into the background.

I cannot agree with this assessment. Instead of the story's main investigator, Cade was used as one half of the movie's main love story and the main suspect of Von Stainach's murder. Rutman did a very good job in utilizing the Cade character, while replacing him with Miss Marple as the main investigator.

After her disappearance, no one had bothered to find out what had happened to her and she was determined to get to the bottom of the mystery. A few other disparate events and clues present themselves before Miss Marple knows enough to bring about the deonouement.

There is a dinner where most guests fall ill after foxglove is mixed in with sage in the soup. It is mild for most but Treadwell dies and it is later shown she had died from digitalis poisoning. In her room are letters from one "Captain" to "Constance". Captain is likely the codename for the count and Constance is Treadwell's firstname.

Miss Marple and Finch find a piece of fuse wire in the garden. By comparing typefaces, Miss Marple shows that Cade's note was typed on a machine at Chimneys which Bill Eversleigh used. He admits he sent the note to help Cade gain entrance to Chimneys. But he denies typing the last senBilltence specifying the time. Miss Marple points out during the denouement that the missing Mysore diamond was just a distraction. And to everyone's surprise, she produces it from her handbag.

Captain was the count. Constance was Lady Caterham. The real crime was the killing of the maid Agnes in by Lord Caterham. He had pushed Agnes aside when she was trying to block him from stumbling onto his wife and the count then a violinist who were having an affair.

Caterham then stole the diamond and planted it on Agnes' body which he hid in a tomb. When the count wrote in his letter about wishing to conduct the negotiations at Chimneys, Caterham recognised the handwriting as those on his wife's love letters. Caterham lured the count into the secret passage and then shot him. The walls effectively muffled the sound of the pistol. Later, he set off a firework through the chimney to fake the time of the shooting--this was the fusewire Miss Marple found.

Finally he had earlier on, added a sentence to Bill Eversleigh's note to Cade, asking him to come at As for Treadwell, after she showed the police the tomb, Caterham was concerned that she had more to tell and would implicate him.

Most of the characters had been either renamed or invented. The plot had been largely reworked, with both motive and murderer entirely different. Even the detective was not the same, with Miss Marple being helicoptered in to solve a case in which she had never appeared. I know that country-house dramas are this year's big TV must-have and that the producers are running out of stories with which to keep the lucrative Marple franchise on the road, but quite why they felt the need to alter everything so dramatically wasn't clear.

The original story — about the intrigues concerning the Herzoslovakian succession — was no more improbable than the one the scriptwriters dreamt up involving an Austrian count, a missing diamond and a secret passage. It's as if everyone involved with the series has lost confidence in the brand and reckons all the punters will stomach now is some whimsy Christie pastiche.