Murder is made most funny in this parody of a Marple mystery. There’s all the usual suspects, a Colonel and his wife, a wealthy homeowner, the relative in line for a great inheritance, a delightful young lady, mysterious Frenchman, the haphazard butler, and of course the interfering old lady Mrs Maple (Marple, Marbles, Mrs Jones… if you’re Inspector Pratt) who seems to attract murder wherever she goes. When said wealthy homeowner is shot dead, it falls on the two bumbling coppers Pratt and Tompkins to solve the crime — if they don’t accidentally shoot eachother dead first. This production of P…
