Agatha Christie’s authorial career became fairly stable about a decade in, so she had the freedom to write non-mystery novels (sometimes called “mainstream” or “literary”
I can imagine some Agatha Christie fans loathe the 2003 ITV adaptation of her 1945 novel “Sparkling Cyanide” and others appreciate writer Laura Lamson’s fresh
The troupe that made “Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?” (1980) for ITV reunites for “Seven Dials Mystery” (1981). The budget is smaller, which is fine
In the 1934 book, it takes a long time to find out “Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?” It seems even longer in the 1980 British
I mentioned in my review of 1985’s “Thirteen at Dinner” that Poirot feels out of time in the 1980s. However, other Agatha Christie novels translate
The third of Peter Ustinov’s six Hercule Poirot films, “Thirteen at Dinner” (1985), came out the same year as “Back to the Future.” This is
As a general historical truth, Agatha Christie didn’t see a lot of great film adaptations of her work in her lifetime. What she really missed
The 1978 version of “Death on the Nile” has stayed afloat as one of the elite film adaptations of an Agatha Christie novel. Anthony Shaffer’s
Hercule Poirot often travels, even though it seems he would be annoyed by a lot of things about the process of traveling, not to mention
It took 13 years after Agatha Christie’s death until we got the definitive version of Hercule Poirot on screen, with David Suchet starring in the