![]() ![]() She shows that almost anyone among the guests had opportunity and is a suspect: Virginia Revel and Bill Eversleigh build a cardboard model of the house and represents everyone with toy soldiers.She helps Finch and Miss Marple decode a sheet of musical notation which contains the coded "Richmond" message that is similar to that in the original. Bundle has a different but arguably a role equally as large as in the original.He knows Miss Marple and draws her into the investigation. After the count is murdered, Inspector Finch (the Battle parallel) is called in.Before the party, Anthony Cade also encounters Virginia-he rescues her from an attacker and they become interested in each other. Lomax and Bill Eversleigh are both shown as being interested in marrying Virginia.Miss Marple is a cousin of their mother and she gets invited to the party which is organised to serve as the setting for Lomax and Count Ludwig's negotiations. In this adaptation, Virginia Revel is a daughter of Lord Caterham and sister of Bundle.During the negotiations, Count Ludwig surprises everyone by asking that he be given Chimneys as one of the conditions of the deal. Lomax is himself present at Chimneys during the events, together with Bill Eversleigh and some security men. Furthermore, Chimneys as a venue is specifically requested by Count Ludwig himself. The topic is British access to iron ore and not oil. Lomax persuades Caterham to host a party for Count Ludwig Von Stainach.At the time of the episode, most believe the maid had disappeared and that she was the one who stole the Mysore diamond from Lady Somerset. The episode opens with the killing of a maid Agnes at the party at Chimneys 23 years ago.Unlike the original, almost all the action takes place at Chimneys, the episode becoming a "country house" mystery where all the residents might possibly have a motive for killing the Austrian count. Many of the main characters from the original are carried over but have different backstories. This parallels the Koh-i-noor in the original. Part of the mystery also involves a gemstone, the Mysore diamont believed to have been stolen during a party at Chimneys some 23 years ago. The common thread with the original is the arrival of a foreign dignitary (in this case from Austria) at Chimneys to negotiate a trade deal with Britain and his subsequent murder. The entire Herzoslovakian political angle is done away with completely as is the plot element of delivering a set of memoirs to a London publisher. Besides the insertion of Miss Marple, the adaptation diverges from the original in many ways. ![]() The Secret of Chimneys was not originally a Miss Marple book. (may contain spoilers - click on expand to read) There are several suspects and another member of the household will die before Miss Marple solves the crime. Lord Caterham's eldest daughter Bundle is dead set set against the idea but it all takes a very serious turn when the Count is found murdered. ![]() Everyone is surprised when Count von Stainach says that in addition to signing the trade agreement, he also wants to purchase Chimneys. Except for a maid who disappeared with a valuable diamond in the 1920s, not much of note has happened there for a long time. Chimneys was once the 'in' place to be for a fancy weekend but over many years, it has become somewhat run-down. The weekend has something of a diplomatic air to it as the Austrian Count Ludwig von Stainach is also there to negotiate a trade agreement with the British that will give it access to iron ore. Miss Marple finds herself spending the weekend at Chimneys, the stately home of Lord Caterham whose late wife was her cousin. ![]()
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