A Caribbean Mystery

Miss Marple is on a vacation at the Golden Palm hotel, on the Caribbean island of St. Honoré. Chatty Major Palgrave starts telling her about a man who killed several wives and is about to show her a photo, but stops cold when he looks over her shoulder. The next day, he's dead. Miss Marple teams up with the cranky millionaire Jason Rafiel. She realizes the major had a glass eye and was really looking somewhere else: at the couple who run the hotel, Tim and Molly Kendal. The killer is Tim, who had been drugging Molly so her death would look like suicide. Molly keeps the hotel, with help from Rafiel's money.

1. ChangeThe real James Bond

   On ITV (2013), writer Charlie Higson put Ian Fleming on the island and added James Bond, the American ornithologist who lent the spy his name.

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2. ChangeMore voodoo

   ITV played up the voodoo angle and added Mama Zogbe, who isn't in the book. Canon Prescott also gets a much bigger role.

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3. Behind the scenesRafiel in reverse

   The BBC shot Nemesis in 1987 and didn't get to this case until 1989. So Hickson's Jason Rafiel shows up first in the story that comes later.

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4. Behind the scenesWhere Christie stayed

   The BBC version was shot at the Coral Reef Hotel in Barbados, where Christie herself had stayed.

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