"game. The game was met with very mixed reception, as GameRankings gave it a score of 53.82%, while Metacritic gave it 53 out of 100. Agatha Christie: The ABC Murders (2009 video game) Agatha Christie: The ABC Murders is a mystery adventure game for the Nintendo DS, based on the Agatha Christie novel ""The ABC Murders"". The game was co-developed by American companies AWE Games and Black Lantern Studios, and published by DreamCatcher Interactive. The game has players control Captain Hastings who solves the mystery by inspecting crime scenes and questioning suspects. In order to appeal to players familiar with"
"on screen in the 1931 British film ""Alibi"". The film was based on the stage play. Trevor reprised the role of Poirot twice, in ""Black Coffee"" and ""Lord Edgware Dies"". Trevor said once that he was probably cast as Poirot simply because he could do a French accent. Leslie S. Hiscott directed the first two films, and Henry Edwards took over for the third. Tony Randall portrayed Poirot in ""The Alphabet Murders"", a 1965 film also known as ""The ABC Murders"". This was more a satire of Poirot than a straightforward adaptation, and was greatly changed from the original. Much"
"on the ABC television network between February 1989 and May 1989 as part of the ABC Mystery Movie rotation. Aaron Elkins Aaron Elkins (born Brooklyn July 24, 1935) is an American mystery writer. He is best known for his series of novels featuring forensic anthropologist Gideon Oliver—the 'skeleton detective'. Elkins's father was a machinist, his mother a homemaker. Elkins graduated from Hunter College in 1956 with a Bachelor of Arts, after which he studied at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, earned master of arts degrees at the University of Arizona (1960) and California State University, Los Angeles (1962), and received a"
"The A.B.C. Murders The A.B.C. Murders is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, featuring her characters Hercule Poirot, Arthur Hastings and Chief Inspector Japp, as they contend with a series of killings by a mysterious murderer known only as ""A.B.C."". The book was first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 6 January 1936, retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6) while a US edition, published by Dodd, Mead and Company on 14 February of the same year, was retailed at $2.00. The form of the novel is unusual, combining first-person narrative and"
"produced and directed by Owen Crump. The screenplay was by Henry F. Greenberg, a television screenwriter who was active in the 1950s and 60s. In addition to Dr. Baxter, it starred Wilder Penfield and Hadley Cantrell, with actor Karl Swenson playing the role of a cameraman (the program was set on a soundstage in a mock ""behind-the-scenes"" format). Chuck Jones directed the animation, which was designed by Maurice Noble. In 1966, Jones won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film for directing """" (1965). ""The Alphabet Conspiracy"" examines language and its history. The screenplay was written by Leo Salkin"
"Alan Le May Alan Brown Le May (June 3, 1899 – April 27, 1964) was an American novelist and screenplay writer. He is most remembered for two classic Western novels, ""The Searchers"" (1954) and ""The Unforgiven"" (1957). They were adapted into the motion pictures ""The Searchers"" (1956; starring John Wayne and Jeffrey Hunter, and directed by John Ford) and ""The Unforgiven"" (1960; starring Burt Lancaster and Audrey Hepburn, and directed by John Huston). He also wrote or co-wrote the screenplays for ""North West Mounted Police"" (1940; directed by Cecil B. DeMille, and starring Gary Cooper and Paulette Goddard), ""Reap the"
"Australian Broadcasting Corporation produced a telemovie based on the Murchison Murders, starring Robert Menzies as Upfield and Luke Ford as Snowy. ""3 Acts of Murder"" was directed by filmmaker Rowan Woods and screened on ABC on 14 June 2009 at 8.30pm and again in September 2013, October 2014 and August 2015. Murchison Murders The Murchison Murders were a series of three murders, committed by an itinerant stockman named Snowy Rowles, near the rabbit-proof fence in Western Australia during the early 1930s. Rowles used the murder method that had been suggested by author Arthur Upfield in his then unpublished book ""The"
"The Alphabet Killer The Alphabet Killer is a 2008 thriller-horror film, loosely based on the Alphabet murders that took place in Rochester, New York between 1971 and 1973. Eliza Dushku stars alongside Cary Elwes, Michael Ironside, Bill Moseley and Timothy Hutton. The film is directed by Rob Schmidt, director of ""Wrong Turn"", also starring Dushku, and written by Tom Malloy, who also acted in a supporting role. Megan Paige (Eliza Dushku), an investigator for the Rochester Police Department, is investigating the murder of a young girl named Carla Castillo. Her body was found in the nearby village of Churchville, New"
"""Lord Edgware Dies"" in 1934, all starring Trevor as Poirot. He later appeared in ""The Alphabet Murders"", a 1965 Christie film, playing a minor role. It is now considered to be a lost film. Alibi (1931 film) Alibi (1931) is a British mystery detective film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott and starring Austin Trevor, Franklin Dyall, and Elizabeth Allan. The film was adapted from the 1928 play ""Alibi"" by Michael Morton which was in turn based on the Agatha Christie novel ""The Murder of Roger Ackroyd"" featuring her famous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. Austin Trevor once claimed he was cast"
"Reflections of Murder Reflections of Murder is a 1974 made-for-TV movie that was produced by ABC. A suspense-thriller film, it is a remake of the classic 1955 French film ""Les Diaboliques"". John Badham directed, from Carol Sobieski's script. The cast was led by Tuesday Weld, Joan Hackett and Sam Waterston in the primary roles. ""Reflections of Murder"" was released to home video on the VHS format in the 1980s, but has not yet received an official DVD release. Claire Elliot is the abused wife of vicious schoolmaster Michael, who takes great delight in belittling and emotionally abusing her both in"
"""LA Weekly""'s Luke Thompson said the plot was quite predictable, but he also said that the presence of multiple supporting characters keeps viewers guessing, which made the film very interesting. Jeannette Catsoulis of ""The New York Times"" praised Dushku's skills and Schmidt's choice to be ""more interested in facts than in frights"". The Alphabet Killer The Alphabet Killer is a 2008 thriller-horror film, loosely based on the Alphabet murders that took place in Rochester, New York between 1971 and 1973. Eliza Dushku stars alongside Cary Elwes, Michael Ironside, Bill Moseley and Timothy Hutton. The film is directed by Rob Schmidt,"
"The Untouchables (1959 TV series) The Untouchables is an American crime drama that ran from 1959 to 1963 on the ABC Television Network, produced by Desilu Productions. Based on the memoir of the same name by Eliot Ness and Oscar Fraley, it fictionalized Ness's experiences as a Prohibition agent, fighting crime in Chicago in the 1930s with the help of a special team of agents handpicked for their courage, moral character, and incorruptibility, nicknamed the Untouchables. The book was later made into a film in 1987 (also called ""The Untouchables"") by Brian De Palma, with a script by David Mamet,"
"Murder in Three Acts Murder in Three Acts is a 1986 British-American made-for-television mystery film produced by Warner Bros. Television, featuring Peter Ustinov as Agatha Christie's Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. Directed by Gary Nelson, it co-starred Jonathan Cecil as Hastings, Tony Curtis, and Emma Samms. The film is based on Christie's book ""Three Act Tragedy"" (1934). Poirot joins his assistant Hastings in Acapulco, Mexico, where Hastings is staying. They go to a party at which the other guests include the writer Janet Crisp, the American actor Charles Cartwright, a clergyman called Babbington, Daisy Eastman and her daughter Egg, Dr Strange,"
"Murder in Three Acts Murder in Three Acts is a 1986 British-American made-for-television mystery film produced by Warner Bros. Television, featuring Peter Ustinov as Agatha Christie's Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. Directed by Gary Nelson, it co-starred Jonathan Cecil as Hastings, Tony Curtis, and Emma Samms. The film is based on Christie's book ""Three Act Tragedy"" (1934). Poirot joins his assistant Hastings in Acapulco, Mexico, where Hastings is staying. They go to a party at which the other guests include the writer Janet Crisp, the American actor Charles Cartwright, a clergyman called Babbington, Daisy Eastman and her daughter Egg, Dr Strange,"
"Cultural Center's Special Collections and Archives in Fort Lauderdale, FL. Alex Haley Alexander Murray Palmer Haley (August 11, 1921 – February 10, 1992) was an American writer and the author of the 1976 book ""."" ABC adapted the book as a television miniseries of the same name and aired it in 1977 to a record-breaking audience of 130 million viewers. In the United States, the book and miniseries raised the public awareness of African American history and inspired a broad interest in genealogy and family history. Haley's first book was ""The Autobiography of Malcolm X"", published in 1965, a collaboration"
"Michael, and Victoria. ""The Bastard"" was adapted as a television mini-series by Universal Pictures Television as the first offering of the highly successful syndicated package, ""Operation Prime Time"" (1978). It was followed by ""The Rebels"" (1979) and ""The Seekers"" (1979). The ""North and South"" trilogy was made into three mini-series on ABC in the 1980s and 1990s. John Jakes John William Jakes (born March 31, 1932) is an American writer, best known for American historical fiction. His Civil War trilogy, North and South, has sold millions of copies worldwide. He is also the author of The Kent Family Chronicles. He"
"Leslie Stevens Leslie Clark Stevens IV (February 3, 1924 – April 24, 1998) was an American producer, writer, and director. He created two television series for the ABC network, ""The Outer Limits"" (1963–1965) and ""Stoney Burke"" (1962–63), and ""Search"" (1972–73) for NBC. Stevens was the director of the horror film ""Incubus"" (1966), which stars William Shatner, and was the second film to use the Esperanto language. He wrote an early work of New Age philosophy, """" (1970). Stevens was born in Washington, D.C. His interest in science was sparked when he studied for Annapolis at the behest of his father,"
"Agatha Christie's ""Murder on the Orient Express""—of assembling all of the characters for the climactic revelation of the culprit. The first film appeared the year after the repeal of Prohibition, and the series is also notable for the extensive and casual use of alcohol by the main characters. Nick and Nora Charles Nick and Nora Charles are fictional characters created by Dashiell Hammett in his novel ""The Thin Man"". The characters were later adapted for film in a series of movies between 1934 and 1947; for radio from 1941 to 1950; for television from 1957 through 1959; as a Broadway"
"Robert C. Schuler Robert Charles Schuler (April 30, 1917 – December 25, 2007) was an American advertising and public-relations executive, television producer and writer. He is best known for creating and producing the ABC-TV primetime variety series ""The Patrice Munsel Show"". Schuler was married to Munsel for more than five decades. Born in Winona, Minnesota, Schuler studied at St. Mary's College, the University of Minnesota and Northwestern University. He was an active member of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity. Schuler also studied acting at Max Reinhardt's School of the Theatre in Hollywood and with Lee Strassberg at the American Theatre"
"DVD in March 2010. The Chelsea Murders The Chelsea Murders (known in the USA as Murder Games) is a thriller by Lionel Davidson. The book won the Crime Writers' Association's Gold Dagger Award. Someone is killing residents of the hip bohemian London neighborhood of Chelsea, home to literary giants of the past like Virginia Woolf. What thread connects them in someone's mad mind? The only clue is a fragment of film, which accidentally caught images of the murderer, dressed in an outlandish costume and mask. An adaptation of the novel was 1981 directed from Derek Bennett as a Television film"
"exalted status of copy boy for Time magazine at 28. These jobs paid my room rent while I was writing plays."" Leslie Stevens Leslie Clark Stevens IV (February 3, 1924 – April 24, 1998) was an American producer, writer, and director. He created two television series for the ABC network, ""The Outer Limits"" (1963–1965) and ""Stoney Burke"" (1962–63), and ""Search"" (1972–73) for NBC. Stevens was the director of the horror film ""Incubus"" (1966), which stars William Shatner, and was the second film to use the Esperanto language. He wrote an early work of New Age philosophy, """" (1970). Stevens was"
"his 1934 story ""Recipe for Murder"" first published in Redbook magazine in one installment was filmed as ""The Great Hotel Murder"" by Fox in 1935. Vincent Starrett Charles Vincent Emerson Starrett (; October 26, 1886 – January 5, 1974), known as Vincent Starrett, was an American writer, newspaperman, and bibliophile. Charles Vincent Emerson Starrett was born above his grandfather's bookshop in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. His father moved the family to Chicago in 1889 where Starrett attended John Marshall High School. Starrett landed a job as a cub reporter with the Chicago ""Inter-Ocean"" in 1905. When that paper folded two years"
"appeal for a meeting to clear Bruno Hauptmann's name. Anna Hauptmann died on October 10, 1994. In 1974, Anthony Scaduto wrote ""Scapegoat,"" which took the position that Hauptmann was framed and that the police both withheld and fabricated evidence. This led to further investigation, and in 1985, Ludovic Kennedy published ""The Airman and the Carpenter"", in which he argued that Hauptmann had not kidnapped and murdered Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. The book was made into a 1996 television film ""Crime of the Century"", starring Stephen Rea and Isabella Rossellini. Not all modern authors agree with these theories. Jim Fisher, a"
"Alex Haley Alexander Murray Palmer Haley (August 11, 1921 – February 10, 1992) was an American writer and the author of the 1976 book ""."" ABC adapted the book as a television miniseries of the same name and aired it in 1977 to a record-breaking audience of 130 million viewers. In the United States, the book and miniseries raised the public awareness of African American history and inspired a broad interest in genealogy and family history. Haley's first book was ""The Autobiography of Malcolm X"", published in 1965, a collaboration through numerous lengthy interviews with the subject, a major African-American"
"and directing, stating: ""most of my 'psycho' type movies ... were derivative of each other and they all went back to my original inspiration: ""Les Diaboliques"". I'm not the only one to follow that path. I guess I just did it more than most."" An American version of ""Les Diaboliques"", titled ""Reflections of Murder"", was made by ABC-TV in 1974 with Tuesday Weld, Joan Hackett, and Sam Waterston. In 1993, another made-for-television movie remake was made; this one was titled ""House of Secrets"", and it starred Melissa Gilbert. In 1996, the film was remade again as ""Diabolique"", adapted by Don"
"Charles Gilbert, Jr. Sondheim asked Gilbert for permission to use his idea. Gilbert consented and offered to write the book; but Sondheim declined, having already had collaborator John Weidman in mind. Weidman had written the book for ""Pacific Overtures"" and would work with Sondheim again on ""Road Show"". ""Assassins"" opened Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons on December 18, 1990, and closed on February 16, 1991 after 73 performances. Directed by Jerry Zaks the cast included Victor Garber, Terrence Mann, Patrick Cassidy, Debra Monk, Greg Germann, and Annie Golden. According to the ""Los Angeles Times"", ""The show has been sold out since"
"""The Lake District Murder"", ""The South Downs Murder"" (originally ""The Sussex Downs Murder"", 1936), and ""The Cornish Coast Murder"" were produced by Soundings Audio Books and narrated by Gordon Griffin. Ernest Elmore Ernest Carpenter Elmore (1901–1957) was an English theatre producer and director, and writer of crime and fantasy novels. He wrote his crime novels under the pseudonym John Bude. Elmore was born in Maidstone, Kent in 1901. He attended Mill Hill School until 1919 as a boarder, and then studied at a secretarial college in Cheltenham, before becoming a games master at St Christopher School, Letchworth. While there he"
"on September 21, 1998, and was later broadcast in the United States on ABC on April 26 and April 29, 1999. Mr. Murder Mr. Murder is a horror novel by the best-selling author Dean Koontz, released in 1993. Bestselling mystery writer Marty Stillwater was recording himself one day when he realized that he was saying ""I need..."" repeatedly. When he went back to see what he had been saying before he found out he had been saying ""I need"" for over 7 minutes. Marty was tense that whole day, when he put the kids to bed though he calmed down"
"on the Orient Express"" (1934). Hercule Poirot became famous in 1926 with the publication of ""The Murder of Roger Ackroyd"", whose surprising solution proved controversial. The novel is still among the most famous of all detective novels: Edmund Wilson alludes to it in the title of his well-known attack on detective fiction, ""Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?"" Aside from ""Roger Ackroyd"", the most critically acclaimed Poirot novels appeared from 1932 to 1942, including ""Murder on the Orient Express"", ""The ABC Murders"" (1935), ""Cards on the Table"" (1936), and ""Death on the Nile"" (1937), a tale of multiple homicide upon"
"1857 and 1908. House's book was adapted as a six-part television series by the BBC in 1980. The cast included George Baker (as Madeleine Smith's father), Anthony Bate (as Pritchard), Simon Cadell, Neil Connery, Gregor Fisher, Rikki Fulton, John Grieve, James Hazeldine, and Tony Roper. Square Mile of Murder The Square Mile of Murder relates to an area of west-central Glasgow, Scotland. The term was first coined by the Scottish journalist and author Jack House, whose 1961 book of the same name was based on the fact that four of Scotland's most infamous murders were committed within an area of"
"ABC and another seven on CBS, producing a total of 380 episodes, making it the fourth longest live-action sitcom in history. On November 14, 1974, Fedderson received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contribution to the television industry, at 1735 N. Vine Street. Fedderson was married to actress Helen Macie ""Tido"" Minor from 1938 to 1968. He fathered seven children, two of whom became actors: Gregg Fedderson and Mike Minor. In 1969, he married actress Yvonne Lime, the co-founder of Childhelp. They remained married until his death. Fedderson died on December 18, 1994, at the age"
"The Murder on the Links The Murder on the Links is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by The Bodley Head in May 1923, and in the US by Dodd, Mead & Co in the same year. It features Hercule Poirot and Arthur Hastings. The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6), and the US edition at $1.75. The story takes place in northern France, giving Poirot a hostile competitor from the Paris Sûreté. Poirot's long memory for past or similar crimes proves useful in resolving the crimes. The book is"
"cast, including David Selby, Lara Parker, and Kathryn Leigh Scott. Creator Dan Curtis claimed he had a dream in 1965 of a mysterious young woman on a train. The following day Curtis told his wife of the dream and pitched the idea as a TV series to ABC. Network officials greenlit production and Curtis began hiring crew members. Art Wallace was hired to create a story from Curtis's dream sequence. Wallace wrote the story bible ""Shadows on the Wall"", the proposed title for the show, later changed to ""Dark Shadows"". Robert Costello was added as a line producer, and Curtis"