The ending in the adaptation differs significantly from the novel.Miss Marple says that she visited her but that her mind was almost completely gone and there was nothing useful to be learned from her. Mrs Mackenzie is mentioned but does not appear in the adaptation. At the end of the show Jennifer states that she would be leaving Percival. In the episode there is a big argument between Percival and Jennifer which Adele speculates is because Jennifer now has her own money after Rex's death.Miss Marple tells Neele about the rhyme in person. She talks to Pat first who brings her to Inspector Neele. She is let in by the police who suppose she is an elderly relative of the family. In the novel, Miss Marple reads about the deaths of Adele and Gladys. The police did not allow her into the grounds so she writes a note mentioning the nursery rhyme to Inspector Neele which he ignores and later regrets it. Here she arrives just around time Adele and Gladys are killed. Miss Marple arrives early on scene than in the novel.In the novel, it was Elaine who received a bequest. Jennifer Fortescue has a separate bequest of 40,000 pounds in Rex Fortesque's will in this adaptation, a fact which gives her much more of a motive and makes her a plausible suspect.The characters of Elaine Fortescue and Gerald Wright are deleted.Miss Ramsbottom is renamed Miss Henderson but fulfils the same role. The episode is a faithful faithful adaptation of the original novel with a number of changes:
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