Miss Marple believes she's seen a murder in a passing-by train, yet when the police find no evidence she decides to investigate it on her own.

Margaret Rutherford
as Miss Jane Marple

Arthur Kennedy
as Paul Quimper

Muriel Pavlow
as Emma Ackenthorpe

James Robertson Justice
as Luther Ackenthorpe

Thorley Walters
as Cedric Ackenthorpe

Charles Tingwell
as Inspector Craddock

Conrad Phillips
as Harold Ackenthorpe

Ronald Howard
as Brian Eastley

Joan Hickson
as Mrs. Kidder

Stringer Davis
as Jim Stringer
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The first of the four films Margaret Rutherford was to make portraying Agatha Christie's dotty old "Miss Marple" who had a nose for detective work. Here she looks out of the window as she travels home on her train to witness a woman being strangled on a train passing in the other direction. She repo...