Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie is the world's best-known mystery writer and all-time best selling author of any genre other than William Shakespeare. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and another billion in over 45 foreign languages. Christie published over eighty novels and stageplays, mainly whodunnits and locked-room mysteries, many of these featuring one of her series characters, Hercule Poirot or Miss Marple. She claimed that she detested Poirot, and she eventually killed him off in 'The Curtain', originally intended by her to be published posthumously, but she lived longer than she thought she would! Miss Marple, on the other hand, she liked, as the character was based on her grandmother. She also wrote romances under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. In 1926 she caused a stir after disappearing for ten days; her car was found abandoned in a chalk pit, and she later claimed amnesia as a result of her mother's recent death and the discovery of her husband's affair. She died of natural causes at the age of 85 on 12 January, 1976.
"I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing." - Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie Marple: Series 4 - 6 (2004)
7.6/10
Starring: Julia McKenzie
Celebrated actress Julia McKenzie takes on the role of Agatha Christie's shrewd and inquisitive Miss Jane Marple in this spectacular set of murder mys... Read more
Agatha Christie Mysteries: Sparkling Cyanide (2003)
Director: Tristram Powell
Starring: Kenneth Cranham, Pauline Collins, Susan Hampshire, Oliver Ford Davies, Jonathan...
When Rosemary Barton dies during an anniversary party, everyone assumes the poison to have been self-administered. But a sleuth dispatched to solve th... Read more
Agatha Christie Mysteries: The Pale Horse (2006)
Director: Charles Beeson
Starring: Jean Marsh, Leslie Phillips, Colin Buchanan, Jayne Ashbourne, Hermione Norris
In Agatha Christie's deepest venture into the occult, writer Mark Easterbrook is accused of murdering a priest. As he sets out to prove his innocence,... Read more
Agatha Christie Mysteries: The Seven Dials Mystery (1981)
Director: Tony Wharmby
Starring: Cheryl Campbell, John Gielgud, Rula Lenska, James Warwick
Agatha Christie's intricate mystery begins, as her stories often do, in an otherwise peaceful countryside where the grisly remains of two murdered vic... Read more
Agatha Christie Mysteries: Why Didn't They Ask Evans? (1980)
Director: Tony Wharmby
Starring: Eric Porter, Francesca Annis, John Gielgud, James Warwick
Meet another pair of the best selling writer's witty crime solvers: Bobby Jones and Lady Frankie Derwent, out to investigate a murder on a Welsh golf... Read more
Agatha Christie's Miss Marple: Collection 1 ( The Body in the Library / The Moving Finger / A Murder is Announced ) (1985)
7.8/10
Director: David Giles, Roy Boulting, Silvio Narizzano
Starring: Joan Hickson
Joan Hickson plays the perfect little old spinster lady whose meekness and fondness for knitting belie a needle-sharp brain and a genius for unravelli... Read more
Agatha Christie's Miss Marple: Collection 2 ( A Pocketful of Rye / The Murder at the Vicarage / Sleeping Murder ) (1985)
7.8/10
Director: John Howard Davies, Julian Amyes, Guy Slater
Starring: Cheryl Campbell, Paul Eddington, Peter Davison, Polly Adams, Tom Wilkinson, Joan...
Agatha Christie's beloved character, Miss Jane Marple, is a prim, somewhat dour but good-hearted old bird with a knack for solving complicated mysteri... Read more
Agatha Christie's Miss Marple: Collection 3 ( At Bertram's Hotel / Nemesis / 4.50 From Paddington ) (1987)
7.8/10
Director: Mary McMurray, David Tucker, Martyn Friend
Starring: George Baker, Joan Hickson, Philip Bretherton, Margaret Tyzack
'At Bertram's Hotel' - Miss Marple goes on holiday to an hotel where time stands still and she is struck by something odd about the place and the gues... Read more
Agatha Christie's Miss Marple: Collection 4 ( A Caribbean Mystery / They Do It with Mirrors / The Mirror Crack'd From Side to Side ) (1989)
7.8/10
Director: Christopher Petit, Norman Stone
Starring: Barry Newman, Claire Bloom, Donald Pleasence, Frank Middlemass, Jean Simmons, Jo...
"A Caribbean Mystery" - Miss Marple (Joan Hickson) is finding her luxury holiday in Barbados sadly dull. Then Major Palgrave is found dead and once mo... Read more
Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures (2004)
6.7/10
Starring: Anna Massey, Olivia Williams
Like her books, Agatha Christie was a mystery, keeping her personal life very much to herself. Her brief enigmatic disappearance in 1926 sparked the f... Read more