A Caribbean Mystery

A Caribbean Mystery takes Miss Marple away from St. Mary Mead to a sun-soaked resort where a retired major mentions a murderer he once encountered, then thinks better of it when he notices her reaction, and is found dead the next morning. Christie strips away Miss Marple's usual village setting, transplanting her into a tropical environment where the cocktail-party surface masks something considerably darker beneath.

Emilia Fox's Miss Marple is a consistent pleasure throughout this production: her careful, watchful quality matches the character's habit of observing everything while appearing merely pleasant. The Caribbean setting gains texture in audio through Fox's measured pacing, and Christie's puzzle mechanics, the seemingly impossible death and the web of resort guests with intersecting histories, work especially well when heard rather than read.