![]() Trouble is, she has just met and fallen in love with the dashing young Anthony Cade (Jonas Armstrong). ![]() The action starts 23 years on, when the world has changed and Chimneys is now too expensive for the family to maintain, but the ambitious and very dull politician George Lomax (Adam Godley) has offered to save it if Virginia, by some years his junior, accepts his proposal of marriage. The house was once known for its society gatherings until a rare diamond was stolen at a party in 1932, a theft that led to the end of Virginia’s diplomat father’s (Edward Fox) career. Miss Marple (Julia McKenzie) is asked by Lady Virginia Revel (Charlotte Salt), the daughter of a dead cousin (what a lot of those the old girl appears to have), to be part of a lavish weekend party at the family’s country pile, Chimneys. ![]() So what joy when there’s a bit of sleuthing by Agatha Christie's yin to Hercule Poirot’s yang, the eagle-eyed wise old bird Miss Marple, in The Secret of Chimneys. If there’s one thing the British love on television at Christmas time, it’s a period drama, and even better, a period mystery. ![]()
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