First broadcast 7th March 1985.
The Home Counties golf and commuter belt... late 1940s.
When Rex Fortescue dies suddenly in his city office, Inspector Neele is called in to investigate. His only clue is a handful of rye in the dead man's pocket. When the poison which killed Rex is identified as deriving from yew, it is on the household and staff at Yew Tree Lodge that suspicion falls.
Adele Fortescue:
Stacy Dorning
Mary Dove:
Selina Cadell
Miss Marple: Joan Hickson
Miss Henderson: Fabia Drake
Rex Fortescue: Timothy West
Lance Fortescue: Peter Davison
Det Insp Neele: Tom Wilkinson
Percival Fortescue: Clive Merrison
Adele Fortescue: Stacy Dorning
Mary Dove: Selina Cadell
Miss Grosvenor: Susan Gilmore
Miss Griffith: Nancie Herrod
Dr French: Louis Mahoney
Det Sgt Hay: Jon Glover
Ellen: Beau Daniells
Mrs Crump: Merelina Kendall
Mr Crump: Frank Mills
Gladys Martin: Annette Badland
Daisy: Suzie Cerys
Mrs Brogan: Rhoda Lewis
Jennifer Fortescue: Rachel Bell
Vivian Dubois: Martyn Stanbridge
Patricia Fortescue: Frances Low
Sgt Rose: Charles Pemberton
PC White: Laurin Kaski
