{"id":4758,"date":"2010-06-20T03:44:16","date_gmt":"2010-06-20T09:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/?p=4758"},"modified":"2010-06-20T03:44:16","modified_gmt":"2010-06-20T09:44:16","slug":"pbs-new-masterpiece-mystery-miss-marple-series-v-the-secret-of-chimneys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/pbs-new-masterpiece-mystery-miss-marple-series-v-the-secret-of-chimneys\/","title":{"rendered":"Miss Marple: The Secret of Chimneys &#8211; Agatha Christie &#8211; PBS NEW Masterpiece Mystery!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4772\" title=\"19971242[1]\" src=\"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/1997124211-e1276981561922.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"130\" height=\"130\" \/>As the title of this Cozy Mystery site entry says: Miss Marple Series V is back &#8211; with a NEW 90 minute episode: <em>The Secret of Chimneys<\/em>. And, if you are ANYTHING like me, you are probably ready for\u00a0your\u00a0&#8220;dose&#8221; of Agatha Christie via the good folks of British television and PBS. (Thank goodness PBS still airs our favorite British mysteries&#8230; now that other channels like A &amp; E no longer do so!)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway&#8230; tomorrow, Sunday, June 20, PBS will be airing the NEW\u00a0 Miss Marple Masterpiece Mystery! :<em> The Secret of Chimneys<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Now for the bad news &gt;&gt;&gt; <em>The Secret of Chimneys<\/em> is one of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cozy-mystery.com\/Agatha-Christie.html\">Agatha Christie<\/a>&#8216;s earliest mystery books. That, in itself, is not the bad news. But, the fact that it was written in 1925, five years before the first Miss Marple mystery book (<em>Murder at the Vicarage<\/em>) is.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Secret of Chimneys<\/em> is the first mystery in Agatha Christie&#8217;s lesser-known Superintendent Battles Mystery Series, which is made up of five mysteries. Superintendent Battles is a Scotland Yard man, definitely not an older, knitting-needles-wielding spinster! Because of this, I cannot be sure what part Miss Marple (played by the talented actress Julia McKenzie) will actually play in the episode. It&#8217;s anyone&#8217;s guess as to how much actual screen time Miss Marple will have, and also, how much of the screen time will be taken by Superintendent Battles.<\/p>\n<p>Hmmm&#8230; It does seem a shame that with so many Agatha Christie Miss Marple mysteries available, recently several NON Miss Marple books have been made into Miss Marple movies. Oh well&#8230; I am just going to look at this from the glass-half-full perspective and simply ENJOY this show, regardless of what liberties the producers have made!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the title of this Cozy Mystery site entry says: Miss Marple Series V is back &#8211; with a NEW 90 minute episode: The Secret of Chimneys. And, if you are ANYTHING like me, you are probably ready for\u00a0your\u00a0&#8220;dose&#8221; of Agatha Christie via the good folks of British television and PBS. (Thank goodness PBS still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,9,10,18,19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4758","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-authors","7":"category-books","8":"category-british-moviestv-shows","9":"category-movies","10":"category-moviestv-shows","11":"entry","12":"override"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pI0sr-1eK","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}