Agatha Christie spoof set in a country house In the 1930s. Will the murderer be unmasked first? When Mildred, owner of the house, is murdered, an assorted cast of weird and wonderful characters assembles. There’s the hopeless police inspector, the various suspects including the English colonel with the prerequisite stiff upper lip, his long-suffering wife, Pierre the shady art dealer, Bunting the butler.. And then things are complicated by the arrival on the scene of the local amateur sleuth who seems to attract murder wherever she goes..