Margot Bence: Portrait photographer at the event at Gossington Hall. As a famous star who has married five times, she is a far more likely murder target. Skip this list. [3], It is set in the fictional English village of St. Mary Mead and features Miss Marple. About two years after the child was born, Tierney was approached by a female fan for an autograph at a garden party. A second adaptation of the novel was made by BBC television in 1992 as part of its series Miss Marple with the title role played by Joan Hickson (in her final performance as Jane Marple), and starring Claire Bloom as Marina Gregg and Glynis Barber as Lola Brewster. While it’s assumed that the criminal’s real target was the actress, a second, then third murder takes place… Everyone is a potential suspect, and when the investigation runs into difficulties Shokokuji must tackle the biggest mystery! Publisher Professor David Mackey mentioned this in his 2005 Gregg lecture to the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Ophthalmologists meeting.[13]. He is in the movie business. This adaptation was mainly faithful to the novel, with minor changes. As Marple investigates, she discovers dark secrets in Marina's past, secrets which also link to other seemingly innocent citizens of St. Mary Mead. 1962, Collins Crime Club (London), 12 November 1962, Hardback, 256 pp, 1963, Dodd Mead and Company (New York), September 1963, Hardback, 246 pp. That was no longer so. The Mirror Crack'd is a 1980 British mystery film based on Agatha Christie's Miss Marple novel The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side (1962) and directed by Guy Hamilton. Co-stars were Elizabeth Taylor as Marina Gregg and Kim Novak as Lola Brewster; the film was released as The Mirror Crack'd, the shortened U.S. book title. Books related to The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side. Miss Marple investigates the murder of Heather Badcock, who consumed a poisoned cocktail apparently meant for American film actress Marina Gregg, Heather's idol. Original title EMBED (for wordpress.com hosted blogs and archive.org item tags) Want more? Postscript: In 1962, Dame Agatha Christie published the detective fiction, The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side, using the real-life tragedy of Gene Tierney as the basis for her plot. SOURCES: (1) Vogel, Michelle. Dermot Craddock: Chief Inspector at Scotland Yard, sent to St Mary Mead to resolve the case of the murder of Mrs Badcock. (Both Americans turn up unexpectedly at the party). Gregg and her latest husband, film producer Jason Rudd, host a fête at Gossington Hall in honor of St John Ambulance. The novel was adapted for the stage in 2019. 256 (first edition, hardback) While recovering from an illness, Jane Marple goes out for a walk in St. Mary Mead and takes a fall. Film director and screenwriter Rituparno Ghosh created a Bengali language version of Christie's story as Shubho Mahurat (2003), which reset the story in the film industry of Kolkata (Calcutta). More by Agatha Christie Skip this list. 2006, Marple Facsimile edition (Facsimile of 1962 UK first edition), 6 March 2006, Hardcover. Whatever bastard Dooku decides to lock up here, Jango's got a decent amount of sympathy. The title of the novel comes from the poem The Lady of Shalott by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. share. The whole planet is uninhabited, and the tower is automated. Her rage turns her into a murderer. Tierney described the event in her autobiography (Self-Portrait, New York: Wyden, 1979), but it had been well publicized for years previously. Marina Gregg is a famous, temperamental, much loved movie star who has come to settle down in the village of St. Mary Mead after the death of Colonel Bantry, who used to live at Gossington Hall where Marina has taken up residence with her husband Jason Rudd. The Lady of Shalott lives in a tower near Camelot, and sees it only reflected in a glass. Jason Rudd: Film director and husband of Marina Gregg; they are making a film in England. Miss Marple sends her to Bournemouth, to save her life, because of what she saw at the fete at Gossington Hall. She will be doomed if she looks directly; when Lancelot appears, she looks directly at him and Camelot and the looking glass cracks. The Mirror Crack'd From Side to Side (Paperback) : Christie, Agatha : In Agatha Christie's classic mystery, The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side, a fatal dose of poison meant for a glamorous movie star fells her ardent admirer instead--and Miss Marple is there to unmask a murderer. 4.64. Beautiful and veteran film star Marina Gregg (Lindsay Crouse , and in the classic cinematic version played by Elizabeth Taylor) and her young husband move to St. Mary Mead, but their arrival becomes clouded in … Finally, Miss Marple deduces what Marina had instantly realised at the party, that Heather is the woman who was responsible for infecting Marina with German measles all those years previously when she put on make up to cover the rash and went to meet Marina for her autograph. Tierney described her event in her autobiography,[8] years after Christie wrote this novel; Tierney's story had been well publicised for years before this novel was written. Ella Zielinsky: Secretary to Mr Rudd. The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 12 November 1962[1][2] and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in September 1963 under the shorter title of The Mirror Crack'd and with a copyright date of 1962. The woman revealed that she had sneaked out of quarantine to the Hollywood Canteen while sick with German measles in order to meet Tierney. Writing to an enquiring reader, one of her agents stated that, incredible as it might sound, Christie only learned about the coincidence after her book was published.[1]. [citation needed] The official website of Agatha Christie, suggests that Gene Tierney's experience influenced Christie in developing the movie star character in this novel. Mrs. Bantry informs Marple about the events surrounding the fête and the frozen look on Marina's face, comparing it to a phrase from Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem The Lady of Shalott. After adopting three children, she became pregnant but her baby was born mentally handicapped and abandoned to a lifetime of institutions, leaving Marina emotionally scarred. The UK edition retailed at fifteen shillings (15/-) and the US edition at $3.75. Scenes were filmed at Twickenham Film Studios, Twickenham, London and on location in Kent. Well, that’s what she looked like. The Mirror Crack'd From Side to Side A Miss Marple Mystery (Book) : Christie, Agatha : After the death of her husband, Dolly Bantry sold Gossington Hall to the former film star Marina Gregg and her husband. Film milieu superimposed on the familiar St Mary Mead background. The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 12 November 1962 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in September 1963 under the shorter title of The Mirror Crack'd and with a copyright date of 1962. 2006, Marple Facsimile edition (Facsimile of 1962 UK first edition), March 6, 2006, Hardcover, Italian: Assassinio allo specchio (Murder in the Mirror). Summary: Two versions of one galaxy reconverge after nearly a thousand years from when their timelines diverged. Shortly before her death, Heather was in conversation with Marina, giving her a long boring account of how she had met Marina many years ago - getting out of bed despite her illness and putting on lots of makeup, in order to seek Marina's autograph. Preceded by Agatha Christie Wiki is a FANDOM Books Community. The infant was also deaf, partially blind with cataracts, and severely retarded and ultimately had to be institutionalized. The Pale HorseMarple: Sanctuary Operating on the assumption that Gregg was the intended target, Craddock proceeds to delve into her complicated past. He changed his name from Alfred Beadle when he left America, where he was once briefly married to Marina Gregg, before she became a film star. She then adopted three children but became pregnant and gave birth to a mentally disabled son before suffering a nervous breakdown. Detective-Inspector Dermot Craddock spearheads the investigation, learning that Heather died from ingesting six times the recommended dose of the tranquilizer Calmo. Author The novel was on Anthony Boucher's list for 1963 of Best Crime Fiction of the Year. [Anne Collins; Agatha Christie] -- When Miss Marple complains of feeling old and helpless, her doctor jokingly suggests she needs a … UK: Collins Crime ClubUS: Dodd, Mead and Company The mirror crack'd from side to side. The Clocks. If you could sum up The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side (Dramatised) in three words, what would they be? No_Favorite. Giuseppe is omitted from the adaptation, and there is no reference to car-man Inch selling his business within it. Rudd neither confirms nor denies her suspicions, instead commenting on his wife's beauty and the suffering she endured. Long life to her. St Mary Mead is all a-flutter when film star Marina Gregg rents Gossington Hall and they all turn out when she opens the gardens for the benefit of the St John Ambulance Association. A Japanese language adaptation based on of one of Agatha Christie's classic stories, 大女優殺人事件～鏡は横にひび割れて～ (The Murder of a Great Actress – The Mirror Crack’d From Side to Side). The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side is a 1962 novel by Agatha Christie, featuring Miss Marple.The American version (and its adaptations) use the shorter title The Mirror Crack'd.. Miss Marple investigates the murder of Heather Badcock, who consumed a poisoned cocktail apparently meant for American film actress Marina Gregg, Heather's idol. Ella's surname is changed from Zielinsky to Blunt. It is known that 11-12 years before the events in the book, Marina desperately wanted children of her own but had difficulties conceiving. While recovering from an illness, Jane Marple goes out for a walk in St. Mary Mead and takes a fall. Summary. The novel was the final adaptation for the BBC series Miss Marple. This is the same surname as Sir Norman Gregg, the Australian ophthalmologist who first described cataracts in congenital rubella syndrome in 1941. The window looked over her garden, once a source of pride to her. Suspicion is cast on many people including Marina's seemingly devoted husband, a big-shot American TV producer who is a former admirer, and an American actress who was previously Marina's rival in love. Pages Jim Baker: Husband of Cherry; he does repair tasks for Miss Marple. At the end of the book, Marina is found dead from a drug overdose. And though one could accept a single coincidence concerning that married couple, the second and quite wildly improbable one tends to destroy faith in the story – still more so since it leads nowhere at all. Who is the criminal? Francis Iles (Anthony Berkeley Cox) was somewhat muted in his praise in his review in The Guardian of 7 December 1962 when he said, "she has of course thought up one more brilliant little peg on which to hang her plot, but the chief interest to me of The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side was the shrewd exposition of what makes a female film star tick the way she does tick. This misfortune was due to Marina contracting German measles in the early stages of her pregnancy. ", Maurice Richardson of The Observer of 11 November 1962 summed up, "A moderate Christie; bit diffuse and not so taut as some; still fairly easy to read, though.