[1] It was based on the 1953 novel After the Funeral by Agatha Christie, with Margaret Rutherford as Miss Jane Marple, Charles "Bud" Tingwell as Inspector Craddock and Stringer Davis (Rutherford's husband) as Jane Marple's friend Mr Stringer[2] returning from the previous film.

It also stars Robert Morley and Flora Robson and was directed by George Pollock, with James P. Cavanagh credited with the adaptation.

The original novel featured Hercule Poirot rather than Miss Marple, and Christie's trademark suspense is seasoned with light comedy.

She also finds a piece of mud bearing the print of a riding boot, but when she goes to Inspector Craddock, he is sceptical, believing that Enderby died of natural causes.

There are four beneficiaries: fourth cousin George Crossfield, niece Rosamund Shane, nephew Hector Enderby and sister Cora Lansquenet.

When Inspector Craddock questions them and Rosamund Shane's spendthrift husband Michael, none of them can produce a satisfactory alibi for the time of Cora Lansquenet's death.