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CRIME QUEEN
Leicester Mercury
|May 03, 2025
MARION MCMULLEN recalls the UK debut of Murder, She Wrote 40 years ago
DAME Angela Lansbury was no stranger to the world of whodunnits before Murder, She Wrote.
She appeared in the 1978 movie version of Agatha Christie's Death On The Nile before going on to play Christie's amateur sleuth Miss Marple in the 1980 film The Mirror Crack'd alongside an all-star cast that included Dame Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, Tony Curtis and Edward Fox.
This story is from the May 03, 2025 edition of Leicester Mercury.
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