This period crime drama (first shown in September 2009) was loosely based on Agatha Christie's twenty-fifth novel(known in America as Easy to Kill),
published in 1939.
Adapted by Stephen Churchett for series
four, the mystery now included Miss
Marple (portrayed by Julia McKenzie).
An American TV version was produced in
1982, with original protagonist, Luke
Fitzwilliam, played by Bill Bixby.
Repeated on ITV3 today, the case
featured Jemma Redgrave, and a dozen Doctor Who cast and crew
connections:
- Hettie Macdonald was also director of Blink, The Magician's Apprentice and The Witch's Familiar
- Russell [George] Tovey (PC Reed here; Marshall in Evil Under the Sun, 2001) was Midshipman Alonso Frame in Voyage of the Damned and The End of Time - a role reprised for Big Finish's One Enchanted Evening (2017) - he was also cast in The War Between the Land and the Sea
- Steve Pemberton (Wake here; Dr. Bessner in Death on the Nile, 2004) was Strackman Lux in Silence in the Library and Forest of the Dead
- Shirley Henderson (Henoria here; Rose in The ABC Murders, 2018) was Ursula Blake in Love & Monsters
- Benedict [Timothy Carlton] Cumberbatch (Fitzwilliam) voiced Howard Carter for False Gods, and Thing 2 for Order of Simplcity (both 2008)
- Tim [Julian] Brooke-Taylor (Dr. Humbleby) voiced Mims for The Zygon Who Fell to Earth (2008)
- David Haig [Collum Ward] (Horton here; Carter in The Witness for the Prosecution) was Pangol in The Leisure Hive
- Sylvia [May Laura] Syms (Lavinia here; Mrs. Easterbrook in A Murder is Announced; Mrs. Hubbard in Murder on the Orient Express, 1993) was Mrs. Pritchard in Ghost Light
- Alex Kaye-Besley was assistant director on The Shakespeare Code too
- for Churchett see The Murder at the Vicarage
- for Sean Clayton see The Body in the Library
- for Gavin Walters see A Pocket Full of Rye
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