Joan hickson stars as the deceptively frail and elderly detective in these bbc television adaptations of the agatha christie novels uncovering murder and foul play in rural england in the 1930s includes five complete mysteries the body in the library parts 1 3 the moving finger part 1 and 2 a murder is announced parts 1 3 a pocketful of rye part 1 and 2 and sleeping murder part 1 and 2