In the book, we meet Gwen, an newlywed from Australia, as she arrives in the UK for what she thinks is the first time in her life. She is searching for a new home for herself and her husband, who is planning to join her soon. She finds a lovely house in a small town that just calls out to her.
While she is waiting for Gerald to arrive, she has some odd occurances - nightmares, attempting to walk through walls because she feels a door should be there, walking off the end of the deck because she thinks there should be stairs. In the course of the renovations, she finds the exact wallpaper behind a cupboard that she imagined the room should have, and it freaks her out enough that she goes to stay with friends. She goes to a play with friends that makes her freak out, and Miss Marple happens to be sitting beside her and witnesses it. Gwen thinks she's going mad, but Miss Marple explains it's probably a memory that's coming back.
When Gerald arrives, the reunited couple decide to investigate, discovering that Gwen had actually been in the UK before, and lived in the house with her father and step-mother Helen (Helen and the father had met when Gwen was 3 and she and her father were coming back to the UK from India after her mother's death from fever), hence the foggy memories. Miss Marple is concerned that they'll dig up more than they should, so she finds an excuse to visit the town and be on the scene to protect them.
In the course of the investigation, they find out Gwen's father died in a sanitarium, convinced he'd murdered his wife. So there is some trepidation that Gwen might be the daughter of a murderer. Eventually they find the body buried at the end of the deck, the maid that had looked after Gwen as a child is murdered when she comes back to town at Gwen and Gerald's request to provide information as to what she saw that night, and, thinking he's about to be found out, the murderer (doctor/Gwen's uncle/Helen's creepy brother) attacks Gwen, and triggers her to remember the last bit of the repressed memory that she'd not been able to recover yet.
I really don't know why they changed it, as the story as summarized above certainly provides a good, and easily videographed, story.
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Date: 2016-06-08 02:12 pm (UTC)In the book, we meet Gwen, an newlywed from Australia, as she arrives in the UK for what she thinks is the first time in her life. She is searching for a new home for herself and her husband, who is planning to join her soon. She finds a lovely house in a small town that just calls out to her.
While she is waiting for Gerald to arrive, she has some odd occurances - nightmares, attempting to walk through walls because she feels a door should be there, walking off the end of the deck because she thinks there should be stairs. In the course of the renovations, she finds the exact wallpaper behind a cupboard that she imagined the room should have, and it freaks her out enough that she goes to stay with friends. She goes to a play with friends that makes her freak out, and Miss Marple happens to be sitting beside her and witnesses it. Gwen thinks she's going mad, but Miss Marple explains it's probably a memory that's coming back.
When Gerald arrives, the reunited couple decide to investigate, discovering that Gwen had actually been in the UK before, and lived in the house with her father and step-mother Helen (Helen and the father had met when Gwen was 3 and she and her father were coming back to the UK from India after her mother's death from fever), hence the foggy memories. Miss Marple is concerned that they'll dig up more than they should, so she finds an excuse to visit the town and be on the scene to protect them.
In the course of the investigation, they find out Gwen's father died in a sanitarium, convinced he'd murdered his wife. So there is some trepidation that Gwen might be the daughter of a murderer. Eventually they find the body buried at the end of the deck, the maid that had looked after Gwen as a child is murdered when she comes back to town at Gwen and Gerald's request to provide information as to what she saw that night, and, thinking he's about to be found out, the murderer (doctor/Gwen's uncle/Helen's creepy brother) attacks Gwen, and triggers her to remember the last bit of the repressed memory that she'd not been able to recover yet.
I really don't know why they changed it, as the story as summarized above certainly provides a good, and easily videographed, story.