Detectives ask that anyone with information regarding the case contact Detective B. Officials are still actively investigating this incident. Troopers said they recovered a handgun at the house, which was in the possession of the man. In the house, police found two elderly people, an 87-year-old man, and an 86-year-old woman, shot to death in their beds. Responding officers entered the home through an unsecured side door, officials said. READ | 2 people found shot, killed in bed in Delaware home: Delaware State Police Officials said they received a 911 call from a home on the 1800 block of Veale Road and troopers were sent to the scene for a welfare check. The investigation began just before 7:30 a.m. WILMINGTON, Delaware (WPVI) - Delaware State Police announced on Sunday that the two people found shot and killed in their Wilmington home were a murder-suicide. In 2005, BBC Radio 4 produced a dramatisation which featured June Whitfield as Miss Marple.Delaware State Police say 2 people found shot, killed in bed were murder-suicide It wasn't until 1985 that Joan Hickson revived the story for TV in the BBC's adaptation and it was then adapted again almost twenty years later, in 2004, starring Geraldine McEwan as Miss Marple. Set in 'present day', it is one of the few stage plays to feature Miss Marple. It was later adapted for the stage by Leslie Darbon and opened in London at the Vaudeville Theatre in 1977 after a try out in Brighton. This story was the first Miss Marple to be adapted for television in 1956, with Gracie Fields in the starring role, alongside Roger Moore. A Murder Is Announced: A Miss Marple Mystery (Miss Marple Mysteries, 5) Paperback Apby Agatha Christie (Author) 4.4 4,582 ratings Book 5 of 12: Miss Marple Mysteries See all formats and editions Kindle 3.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 29.99 8 Used from 17.88 16 New from 24. Agatha Christie even allowed herself a small inhouse joke - the vicarage cat in A Murder is Announced received the rather grand name Tiglath Pileser, after an Assyrian king whose warrior artefacts were discovered on one of her and husband's archaeological excavations. Warning The solution is revealed in this quiz A multiple-choice quiz by jouen58. This is one of Christie's most successful conjuring tricks, the physical mechanics actually tested out on her own neighbours in Wallingford, and as usual some of the best, and in retrospect, most infuriating clues are verbal: in this case, you could even say typographical. 20 Questions: A Murder is Announced Multiple Choice Quiz Literature One of Miss Marples best this also boasts a fascinating cast of characters and an affectionate picture of a post WWII English village. Miss Marple, on holiday in nearby Medenham Wells, is ably assisted by Inspector Craddock who went on to appear in Sanctuary, 4.50 from Paddington and The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side. More than a simple murder mystery, this is a story of redemption set in the throes of post-war muddle and discomfort.

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