Agatha Christie
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Stylish Television: Death On The Nile (2004)
Death on the Nile is one of the most iconic of all Agatha Christie novels, the deadly love triangle featuring a beautiful heiress, a handsome but penniless husband, and his jilted lover as all the ingredients that make the very best of murder mysteries. It has been filmed twice for the silver screen, both of the films being star studded affairs that feature great performances, beautiful settings and exquisite costumes. I have blogged about both of these other versions (you can find the posts here, and here.) Today I turn my attention to the small screen version which featured David Suchet as Poirot, and actually had a little Hollywood glamour…
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A Christie For Christmas 2024
Once upon a time, well, in the 20th century at least, there was the festive tradition of ‘A Christie For Christmas‘.Each year, starting in the 1950’s. Agatha Christie wrote a new book that would be published in time for the Christmas market, and so the tradition of ‘ A Christie For Christmas’ began. It’s a tradition that I still follow, always having a new edition of a Christie classic to add to my collection, even though I have already read all the stories many times over. If you are about to start your own collection, or if you want to gift ‘ A Christie for Christmas’ this year, a good…
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Stylish Films: Murder In Three Acts
Peter Ustinov is one of my favourite Poirot’s, and his first two Poirot films, Death on the Nile and Evil Under the Sun, are probably my favourite Agatha Christie film adaptations, and are traditional Christmas viewing in my house. It is a less known fact, however, that there were further Ustinov as Poirot adaptations during the 1980’s. These included Appointment with Death, a Michael Winner film, and also the TV movies, Dead Man’s Folly, Thirteen at Dinner, and Murder in Three Acts. Yesterday I finally got to watch Murder in Three Acts and rather enjoyed it. Murder in Three Acts is better known as Three Act Tragedy, and is a…