me and mrs jones came out in 1972.
when did me and mrs jones come out?
1972
another section of the property was compulsorily acquired by the state government a few years later and mrs jones fought a long-running legal action against it. she eventually settled with the government, agreeing that, on her death the house and the land still in her possession would be bequeathed to the national trust. with mrs jones death on 27 july 1972, the house and gardens were reunited with the disputed acquisition, saving the estate from the threat of sale and subdivision and allowing the public to enjoy the estate in perpetuity.
rippon lea estate
sir henry tells the first story of three people who sat down to a supper after which all of them fell ill, supposedly of food poisoning, and one died as a result. the three people were a mr and mrs jones and the wife's companion, miss clark, and it was mrs jones who died. mr jones was a commercial traveller; a maid in one of the hotels in which he stayed saw blotting paper he had used to write a letter, whose decipherable phrases referred to his dependency on his wife's money, her death, and "hundreds and thousands". the maid read of the death in a paper and, knowing relatives in the same village where mr and mrs jones lived, wrote to them. this started a chain of gossip which led to the exhumation of the body and the discovery that mrs jones was poisoned with arsenic. there was further gossip linking mr jones to the doctor's daughter, but there was nothing substantive there. the jones's maid, gladys, tearfully confirmed that all three people had been served the same meal of tinned lobster, bread and cheese, and trifle. she had also prepared a bowl of corn-flour for mrs jones to calm her stomach, but miss clark ate this, despite the diet she was on for her consistent weight problems. jones also had a plausible explanation for the letter which was blotted in the hotel room.
the thirteen problems