Masterpiece

Jane Marple solves the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim.

A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.

When hired killer John Gant rides into Lordsburg, the town's folk become paranoid as each leading citizen has enemies capable of using the services of a professional killer for personal revenge.

P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new recruit under his aegis and introduces him to the easy-going night beat. Dixon is a classic ordinary hero but also anachronistic, unprepared and unable to answer the violence of the 1950s.

A psychologist with a keen interest in criminology gets entangled in a tough serial killer case which the police find hard to crack.