Pocket Full of Rye

[lost_spook]

I love hunting for books and videos in charity shops.  You never know what you might find.  Yesterday I found a very old (1985) Miss Marple with Peter Davison in it for 99p.  What could I do?

Spoilers (if you can call it that after 23 years and however long since the book was written)

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[john_amend_all]

I'll second the idea that Sleeping Murder was behind-the-sofa territory. Just the opening, with Gwenda being terrified out of her wits by perfectly innocent things like wallpaper, was bad enough.

My younger self found Nemesis the next most frightening after that, particularly in the episodic version. There's one cliffhanger, involving Shakespeare...

[lost_spook]

That was enough for me. I never watched any more. Just as well. I'd never have been able to read Agatha Christie! Oddly, bits of Poirot I saw never scared me like this. (Take this one - fine, now, but some of the shots of Miss Marple in the gloom? And the last death scene... I'd have been traumatised. Heh. Not that I had the sense to watch Doctor Who back then, but my parents would keep watching All Creatures, which I thought was only fun when Tristan was in it. I wonder how dull that really was? Going by Miss Marple, possibly terminally dull...)

Glad to hear it's not just me! People have laughed at me for having an unreasoning fear of Miss Marple.