"feared that the compact, a gift to his wife, could be traced to him. He intended to dispose of the other heirs and marry Emma. He administered a second, fatal dose of arsenic while supposedly attending to Albert. In Christie's original story, elderly Elspeth McGillicuddy witnessed the murder, not her friend Miss Marple, who was introduced later. Also, in the original story, a young acquaintance of Marple is sent to pose as a house-keeper at the suspect location, not Marple herself. As with most of her portrayals of Miss Marple, Rutherford's interpretation was quite different from Christie's languid, passive depiction."
"later review by Barnard found the story short on clues, but favorably noted Lucy Eyelesbarrow as an independent woman character. The 1961 film ""Murder, She Said"" was based on this novel as were several television programs. Mrs Elspeth McGillicuddy is on her way from a shopping expedition to visit her old friend Jane Marple for Christmas. Her train passes another train running parallel and in the same direction as her train. Then, a blind in one compartment flies up and she sees a man with his back to her strangling a woman. She reports it to a sceptical ticket collector"
"Murder"". In December 2014, the novel was included in ""Entertainment Weekly""'s list of the Nine Great Christie Novels. The kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh's son in 1932 inspired that element in Christie’s novel two years later. An innocent, but perhaps loose-lipped, maid employed by Lindbergh's parents was suspected of involvement in the crime. After being harshly interrogated by police, she committed suicide. Two less notable events helped inspire her novel: Agatha Christie’s first journey on the Orient Express in late 1928, and a blizzard near Cherkeskoy, Turkey, that marooned an Orient Express for six days just a few months"
"him. Davy agrees and will not let her get away with the murder. Bertram's Hotel is popularly believed to have been inspired by Brown's Hotel, in London, where Agatha Christie often stayed when visiting London. However, the ""Oxford Dictionary of National Biography"" claims that Christie's model was a different Mayfair hotel, Fleming's. The Great Train Robbery (1963) was a background influence. In ""The Guardian"" of 17 December 1965, Francis Iles (Anthony Berkeley Cox) said that, """"At Bertram's Hotel"" can hardly be called a major Agatha Christie [novel], for in spite of the presence of Miss Marples (sic) the denouement is"
"Highly ingenious – at this point she is still able to vary the tricks she plays, not repeat them."" The novel was adapted by MGM in 1964 as the film ""Murder Most Foul"". However, in an unusual move, the character of Poirot was replaced with Christie's other most famous detective Miss Marple (portrayed by Margaret Rutherford), who comes onto the case when she is a juror in the trial of the lodger who is accused of the murder. As she is the only juror to believe the lodger is innocent and will not join with the others to vote guilty."
"viewers. Hayes reprised her role as Marple in ""Murder with Mirrors"" (1985). The film was seen on TV by writer Richard Levinson who noted its ratings success. He thought of doing a regular mystery show about a Marple-like detective, who was a mystery writer like Agatha Christie. This led to ""Murder, She Wrote"". A Caribbean Mystery (film) A Caribbean Mystery is a 1983 American made-for-television mystery film based on the Agatha Christie novel ""A Caribbean Mystery"" and starring Helen Hayes as Miss Marple. Stan Margulies had the rights to eight Christie books. He made a TV movie of Christie's ""Murder"
"nurses. As well as this there were some very large hotels and three film studios: Lemville, Elstree and Hellingforth. St. Mary Mead St. Mary Mead was the fictional village created by popular crime fiction author Dame Agatha Christie. The quaint, sleepy village was home to the renowned detective spinster Miss Marple. However, Christie first described a village of that name prior to Marple's introduction, in the 1928 Hercule Poirot novel ""The Mystery of the Blue Train"". In that novel, St. Mary Mead is home to the book's protagonist Katherine Grey. The village was first mentioned in a Miss Marple book"
"Murder on the Orient Express Murder on the Orient Express is a detective novel by British writer Agatha Christie featuring the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. It was first published in the United Kingdom by the Collins Crime Club on 1 January 1934. In the United States, it was published on 28 February 1934, under the title of ""Murder in the Calais Coach,"" by Dodd, Mead and Company. The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6) and the U.S. edition at $2.00. The elegant train of the 1930s, the Orient Express, is stopped by heavy snowfall, with many passengers."
"St. Mary Mead St. Mary Mead was the fictional village created by popular crime fiction author Dame Agatha Christie. The quaint, sleepy village was home to the renowned detective spinster Miss Marple. However, Christie first described a village of that name prior to Marple's introduction, in the 1928 Hercule Poirot novel ""The Mystery of the Blue Train"". In that novel, St. Mary Mead is home to the book's protagonist Katherine Grey. The village was first mentioned in a Miss Marple book in 1930, when it was the setting for the first Marple novel, ""The Murder at the Vicarage"". Miss Marple's"
"earlier adaptation could have interfered with plans to produce this terrifically entertaining super-valentine to a kind of whodunit that may well be one of the last fixed points in our inflationary universe."" Christie later said that this and ""Witness for the Prosecution"" were the only adaptations of her books that she liked. Murder on the Orient Express (1974 film) Murder on the Orient Express is a 1974 British mystery film directed by Sidney Lumet, produced by John Brabourne and Richard B. Goodwin, and based on the 1934 novel of the same name by Agatha Christie. The film features the Belgian"
"Sleeping Murder Sleeping Murder: Miss Marple's Last Case is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in October 1976 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year. The UK edition retailed for £3.50 and the US edition for $7.95. The book features Miss Marple. It was the last Christie novel, published posthumously, although not the last one Christie wrote featuring Miss Marple. The story is set in the 1930s, though written during the Second World War. She aids a young couple who"
"appearance. In the end the murderer dies in a car crash, while there is no such thing in the novel. The novel was adapted for the fourth series of the British television series ""Agatha Christie's Marple"" broadcast on ITV on 6 September 2009, starring Julia McKenzie as the title character. The novel was first serialised, heavily abridged, in the UK in the ""Daily Express"" starting on Monday 28 September, running for fourteen instalments until Tuesday 13 October 1953. The novel was first serialised in the US in the ""Chicago Tribune"" in forty-two parts from Monday, 11 January to Saturday, 27"
"The tone of the novel also was changed somewhat; instead of Christie's trademark suspense and underlying darkness, the film relied heavily on light, even whimsical comedy of manners. The name of the manor house where Marple conducts her inquiries was called Rutherford Hall in the novel, and was changed to Ackenthorpe Hall in the film to avoid comparison with the leading actress's surname. Crackenthorpe, the family name in the novel, was shortened to Ackenthorpe. Despite Christie's dislike of this adaptation, ""Murder, She Said"" received a generally positive response from critics, and maintains an 83% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Almar"
"on the Orient Express"" (1974) and ""Death on the Nile"" (1978) were colorful, lavish productions rich in 1930s period detail. Earlier, a series of lighthearted Miss Marple mysteries were loosely adapted from Christie's novels. Margaret Rutherford starred in ""Murder, She Said"" (1961), ""Murder Most Foul"" (1964), ""Murder Ahoy!"" (1965), and did a humorous cameo appearance as Marple in the Hercule Poirot mystery ""The Alphabet Murders"" (1965). The evergreen Sherlock Holmes was given a revisionist treatment in Billy Wilder's ""The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes"" (1970). In ""The Seven Percent Solution"" (1976), Dr. Sigmund Freud himself cures Holmes of his drug"
"The Murder at the Vicarage The Murder at the Vicarage is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in October 1930 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year. The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6) and the US edition at $2.00. It is the first novel to feature the character of Miss Marple, although the character had previously appeared in short stories published in ""The Royal Magazine"" and ""The Story-Teller Magazine"", starting in December 1927. These earlier"
"turns him down, as she is opposed to blood sports and he is an enthusiastic fox-hunter. After she leaves, he mutters to himself ""That was a narrow escape!"" Christie is mentioned by name early in the film when Miss Marple speaks to the police inspector after the first death. Later in the film, Marple also uses the phrase, ""murder most foul,"" a line from Hamlet which also became the title of the next movie in the series. Murder at the Gallop Murder at the Gallop (1963) is the second of four Miss Marple films made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was based"
"Harrow. The scene of the murder and associated village scenes were filmed in the village of Sarratt near Rickmansworth in Hertfordshire. The name of the first film in the series, ""Murder She Said"", is also the title of the Cosgood Players production that appears on the playbills in the murder victims suitcase. Marple performs a section of the poem ""The Shooting of Dan McGrew"" by Robert W. Service in the film. Murder Most Foul Murder Most Foul is the third of four Miss Marple films made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Loosely based on the novel ""Mrs McGinty's Dead"" by Agatha Christie, it"
"Butler, at Sidbury Cemetery in Devon. Series 1 Series 2 Series 3 Joan Hickson Joan Bogle Hickson, OBE (5 August 1906 – 17 October 1998) was an English actress of theatre, film and television. She was known for her role as Agatha Christie's Miss Marple in the television series ""Miss Marple"". She also narrated a number of ""Miss Marple"" stories on audio books. Born in Kingsthorpe, Northampton, Hickson was a daughter of Edith Mary (née Bogle) and Alfred Harold Hickson, a shoe manufacturer. Boarding at Oldfield School at Swanage in Dorset she went on to train at RADA in London."
"in the back pages of the UK first editions of ""The Listerdale Mystery"", ""Why Didn't They Ask Evans"", and ""Parker Pyne Investigates"" claimed that ""Murder on the Orient Express"" had proven to be Christie's best-selling book to date and the best-selling book published in the Collins Crime Club series. Murder on the Orient Express Murder on the Orient Express is a detective novel by British writer Agatha Christie featuring the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. It was first published in the United Kingdom by the Collins Crime Club on 1 January 1934. In the United States, it was published on 28"
"9 June 2015, included the episodes ""A Caribbean Mystery"", ""At Bertram’s Hotel"", "" Sleeping Murder"", and ""Nemesis"" along with the bonus material ""A Very British Murder, Part 3: The Golden Age"". Miss Marple (TV series) Miss Marple is a British television series based on the Miss Marple murder mystery novels by Agatha Christie, starring Joan Hickson in the title role. It aired from 26 December 1984 to 27 December 1992 on BBC One. All 12 original Miss Marple Christie novels were dramatised. The adaptations were written by T. R. Bowen, Julia Jones, Alan Plater, Ken Taylor and Jill Hyem, and"
"ten films based on the ever-popular novels of Agatha Christie have been released. Two with eccentric sleuth Hercule Poirot, ""Evil Under the Sun"" (1982), ""Appointment with Death"" (1988), and one with Miss Marple ""The Mirror Crack'd"" (1980). Christie herself became the subject of a mystery film in 1979's ""Agatha"" starring Vanessa Redgrave. The film was a fictional speculation on her famous 11-day disappearance in 1926. Complex murder mysteries related to military men began with ""Crossfire"" (1947). More recent examples include ""A Soldier's Story"" (1984), ""No Way Out"" (1987), ""The Presidio"" (1988), ""A Few Good Men"" (1992), ""Courage Under Fire"" (1996),"
"and Helen Hayes (Lavinia), and later for the stage by Clive Exton in 1993. In this adaptation, Luke is not a retired policeman but a professor from MIT on vacation. A 2008 adaptation, with the inclusion of Miss Marple (played by Julia McKenzie), was included in the fourth series of ""Agatha Christie's Marple""; it deviated significantly from the novel by removing some of the characters in it, while adding new ones and changing those left in. New subplots were, and the murderer's motive was changed in it: Murder Is Easy Murder is Easy is a work of detective fiction by"
"Murder on the Orient Express (2001 film) Murder on the Orient Express is a 2001 made-for-television mystery film directed by Carl Schenkel based on the 1934 novel ""Murder on the Orient Express"" by Agatha Christie, featuring Hercule Poirot. This version is set in the present day and has a smaller cast than the novel. The screenplay was written by Stephen Harrigan and the original music score was composed by Christopher Franke. Hercule Poirot is travelling on the ""Orient Express"". While on the journey, Poirot meets a very close friend Bouc, who works for the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits. The train"
"her body again. The letter found with Lily was not the one she received from Kennedy; he switched it after he killed her. He did not want the police involved, as they would see through his scheme. He sent the nanny Leonie home with medicines that killed her. Miss Marple explains all this to the Reeds, the full confession from Kennedy and how they should have seen it from the start, from those words in the play. Agatha Christie wrote ""Curtain"" (Hercule Poirot's last mystery, which concludes the sleuth's career and life) and ""Sleeping Murder"" during World War II to"
"years earlier, in which a baby was kidnapped and then murdered. (The fictitious Armstrong case was apparently inspired by the real-life kidnapping of Charles Lindbergh's baby boy.) Murder on the Orient Express (2001 film) Murder on the Orient Express is a 2001 made-for-television mystery film directed by Carl Schenkel based on the 1934 novel ""Murder on the Orient Express"" by Agatha Christie, featuring Hercule Poirot. This version is set in the present day and has a smaller cast than the novel. The screenplay was written by Stephen Harrigan and the original music score was composed by Christopher Franke. Hercule Poirot"
"in 1930. The character of Miss Marple is based on Christie's step grandmother/aunt (Margaret Miller, née West), and her cronies. Agatha Christie attributed the inspiration for the character of Miss Marple to a number of sources, stating that Miss Marple was ""the sort of old lady who would have been rather like some of my step grandmother's Ealing cronies – old ladies whom I have met in so many villages where I have gone to stay as a girl"". Christie also used material from her fictional creation, spinster Caroline Sheppard, who appeared in ""The Murder of Roger Ackroyd"". When Michael"
"were painted on their sides were replaced by ""NWR"" and have red nameplates with yellow writing. ""Pip"" and ""Emma"" are also the names of two sibling characters in the Agatha Christie novel ""A Murder is Announced"". The phrase ""pip emma"" was also used in the signalese developed by the British Army signallers in the First World War to mean ""post meridiem"", or p.m. ""Annie and Clarabel"" are Thomas' coaches and carry passengers on his branch line. They are his ""confidantes"" and friends. ""Henrietta"" is Toby's four-wheeled GER non-articulated coach. Skarloey Railway locomotives numbers 1 to 6 each have real-life equivalents,"
"Macdonald, and certainly doesn't read like vintage Christie. But why should an astute businesswoman hold back one of her better performances for posthumous publication?"" ""Sleeping Murder"" was filmed by the BBC as a 100-minute film in the sixth adaptation (of twelve) in the series ""Miss Marple"" starring Joan Hickson as Miss Marple. It was transmitted in two 50-minute parts on Sunday, 11 January and Sunday, 18 January 1987. This adaptation is fairly true to the plot of the novel. Adapter: Ken Taylor Director: John Davies Cast: A second television adaptation, set in 1951, was transmitted on 5 February 2006 as"
"Train"" the day of security had almost run out. Even my dreams were full of disquiet."" A film adaptation called ""Orient Express"" was made in 1934, starring Heather Angel as Coral Musker. A radio adaptation by Jeremy Front was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2017, directed by Marc Beeby and starring Joseph Millson as Myatt, Abbie Andrews as Coral Musker, Sam Dale as Czinner and Jane Slavin as Mabel Warren. Stamboul Train Stamboul Train (1932) is the second significant novel by Graham Greene. Set on an ""Orient Express"" train that ran from Ostend, Belgium, to Istanbul, Turkey, the book"
"a complicated and intricate crime when the Blue Train steams into Nice the following morning and it is discovered that murder has been done. The Mystery of the Blue Train The Mystery of the Blue Train is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie, first published in the United Kingdom by William Collins & Sons on 29 March 1928 and in the United States by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year. The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6) and the US edition at $2.00. The book features her detective Hercule Poirot. Poirot boards"
"the adaptation. The music was by Ron Goodwin. The title is a quote from ""Hamlet"" (I.v.27-28), where the Ghost comments about his own death, ""Murder most foul as in the best it is/But this most foul, strange and unnatural."" The third film in the MGM series, this was preceded by ""Murder, She Said"" and ""Murder at the Gallop"", and followed by ""Murder Ahoy!"", all with Rutherford starring as Christie's famed amateur sleuth. Margaret McGinty, a barmaid and former actress, is found hanged, and her lodger, Harold Taylor, caught at the scene, seems plainly guilty. Everyone believes it to be an"
"""Witness for the Prosecution"", a film adaptation of Agatha Christie's novel. Vanessa Redgrave, who plays Georgia, is in another Christie adaptation, ""Murder on the Orient Express"" and plays Christie herself in ""Agatha"". The film was generally well received by critics, holding a 68% ""fresh"" rating on Rotten Tomatoes. ""Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide"" (2013 edition) gave ""How About You"" 2 stars (out of 4), opining that ""[W]hat might have been an appealing tale of intergenerational bonding is ill conceived and often downright silly. Livens up in Atwell's all-too-brief scenes with elderly, dying O'Hara"". ""Videohound's Golden Movie Retriever"" (2011 edition) rated it"
"Adaptations of Agatha Christie Adaptations of the works of Agatha Christie: Episodes of the television series ""Miss Marple"" include: Episodes of the television series ""Agatha Christie's Marple"" include: Episodes of the television series ""Agatha Christie's Poirot"" include: Many of Christie's novels have been adapted for BBC Radio over the course of several years. However the most prominent productions were the dramatisations of the Poirot and Miss Marple stories: Starring Jonathan Forbes as Mike and Lizzy Watts as Ellie Starring Hugh Bonneville as Nevile and Marcia Warren as Lady Tresselian Starring Melinda Walker as Emily Trefusis, Stephen Tompkinson as Charles Enderby,"