Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime
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The Affair of the Pink PearlEpisode Number: 2 Season Num: 1 First Aired: Sunday October 16, 1983 Prod Code: n/a |
This episode is about the theft of a valuable pink pearl.
Among the guests staying with the Kingston-Bruces are Mr & Mrs Hamilton Betts and Lady Laura Barton. While Colonel Kingston-Bruce is trying to talk Betts into putting money into his ailing company, Mrs Betts's valuable pink pearl is stolen. Wanting to avoid publicity, Kingston-Bruce calls in Blunt's Detective Agency. He feels sure that the thief is his daughter Beatrice's unsuitable friend Rennie, while Rennie and Beatrice suspect each other. It is also possible that Lady Laura is a kleptomaniac.
Tommy rushes off to Scotland Yard with the finger-prints of the thief: but will they crack the case?
Among the guests staying with the Kingston-Bruces are Mr & Mrs Hamilton Betts and Lady Laura Barton. While Colonel Kingston-Bruce is trying to talk Betts into putting money into his ailing company, Mrs Betts's valuable pink pearl is stolen. Wanting to avoid publicity, Kingston-Bruce calls in Blunt's Detective Agency. He feels sure that the thief is his daughter Beatrice's unsuitable friend Rennie, while Rennie and Beatrice suspect each other. It is also possible that Lady Laura is a kleptomaniac.
Tommy rushes off to Scotland Yard with the finger-prints of the thief: but will they crack the case?
| Writer: | Agatha Christie, David Butler |
| Director: | Tony Wharmby |
| Star: | James Warwick (Tommy Beresford), Arthur Cox (Detective Inspector Marriott), Reece Dinsdale (Albert), Francesca Annis (Tuppence Beresford) |
| Guest Star: | Susannah Morley (Beatrice Kingston-Bruce), Arthur Cox (Detective Inspector Marriott), Dulcie Gray (Lady Laura Barton), Lynda La Plante (Phyllis Betts (as Lynda Marchal)), Charles Shaughnessy (John Rennie), Fleur Chandler (Janet Smith), Ursula Mohan (Elise), Tim Woodward (Lawrence St Vincent), Graham Crowden (Colonel Kingston-Bruce), William Hootkins (Hamilton Betts), Noël Dyson (Mrs Kingston-Bruce) |
This episode is based on Agatha Christie's story The Affair of the Pink Pearl, first published in her collection Partners in Crime (1929).
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Most of the stories In Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime are intended as spoofs on other people's detective stories. The Affair of the Pink Pearl is a gentle send-up of R. Austin Freeman's Dr Thorndyke stories.
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