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
Miss Marple: The Body in the Library (1984)
7.7/10
Director: Silvio Narizzano
Starring: Joan Hickson
'The Body in the Library' is set in the deceptively sleepy English village of St. Mary Mead during the late 1940's. One morning Colonel and Mrs. Bantr... Read more
Poirot: Cards on the Table (2005)
8.6/10
Director: Sarah Harding
Starring: David Suchet, Alexander Siddig, Zoe Wanamaker, Robert Pugh
The wealthy and eccentric foreigner Shaitana has a special fascination with crime and decides to set a trap for a secret murderer to strike again in t... Read more
Poirot: After the Funeral (2005)
8.6/10
Director: Maurice Phillips
Starring: David Suchet, Robert Bathurst, Kevin Doyle
The eminently mustachioed Poirot becomes embroiled in a familial murder in this Agatha Christie instalment. Called in to investigate by family solicit... Read more
Poirot: Series 2 (1990)
8.6/10
Starring: David Suchet, Philip Jackson, Pauline Moran, Hugh Fraser
David Suchet stars as Agatha Christie's sleuth Hercule Poirot in this collection of his cases from the long running TV series, in which deception and... Read more
Poirot: Taken at the Flood (2005)
8.6/10
Director: Andy Wilson
Starring: Celia Imrie, David Suchet, Tim Pigott-Smith, Patrick Baladi, Elliot Cowan
In this addition to the popular series based on the novels by Agatha Christie, the sudden death of wealthy Gordon Cloade puts his greedy family in qui... Read more
Murder On The Orient Express (1974)
7.3/10
Director: Sidney Lumet
Starring: Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Bergman, Sean Connery, Anthony Perkins, Joh...
Belgian Detective Hercule Poirot solves a murder on a train in this stylish movie based on the Agatha Christie mystery. Albert Finney is terrific as t... Read more
Miss Marple: Murder, She Said / Murder at the Gallop / Murder Ahoy / Murder Most Foul (1961)
7.8/10
Director: George Pollock
Starring: Margaret Rutherford, Arthur Kennedy, Muriel Pavlow
A collection of some of Margaret Rutherford's finest turns as the good lady detective: 'Murder, She Said' (1961) with Arthur Kennedy; 'Murder at the G... Read more
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
8.4/10
Director: Billy Wilder
Starring: Marlene Dietrich, Tyrone Power, Charles Laughton
Agatha Christie's play about a sensational London murder trial features great performances from Charles Laughton as the ageing lawyer, and from Tyrone... Read more
Appointment With Death (1988)
6.2/10
Director: Michael Winner
Starring: Peter Ustinov, Lauren Bacall, Piper Laurie, David Soul
When domineering and much despised Emily Boynton (Piper Laurie), is murdered, renowned Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot (Peter Ustinov), has to summon up... Read more
Poirot: Series 7 & 8 (2000)
8.6/10
Starring: David Suchet
A series of four separate movie-length stories, in which Agatha Christie's Poirot (David Suchet) must exercise his wit against the intelligence of the... Read more