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
And Then There Were None (1974)
8/10
Director: Peter Collinson
Starring: Adolfo Celi, Charles Aznavour, Elke Sommer, Gert Frobe, Herbert Lom, Oliver Reed...
Ten international strangers are invited to stay in a luxurious, but isolated hotel in the Iranian desert. With their mysterious host absent from proce... Read more
And Then There Were None (2015)
8/10
Starring: Sam Neill, Toby Stephens, Burn Gorman, Aidan Turner, Maeve Dermody, Douglas Boot...
It's 1939 and Europe teeters on the brink of war. Ten strangers are invited to Indian Island, an isolated rock near the Devon coast in southern Englan... 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
Crooked House (2017)
6.3/10
Director: Gilles Paquet-Brenner
Starring: Gillian Anderson, Glenn Close, Julian Sands, Terence Stamp, Christina Hendricks,...
Young Sophia returns after the war to find her grandfather poisoned and a family filled with suspects. Luckily her fiance, Charles, is the son of the... Read more
Death on the Nile (1978)
7.3/10
Director: John Guillermin
Starring: Angela Lansbury, Bette Davis, David Niven, Lois Chiles, Maggie Smith, Mia Farrow...
Peter Ustinov and Mia Farrow star in this adaptation of Agatha Christie's famous mystery, with Hercule Poirot playing detective games with a dozen or... Read more
Endless Night (1972)
6/10
Director: Sidney Gilliat
Starring: Hayley Mills, Hywel Bennett, Britt Ekland, George Sanders, Per Oscarsson
This mystery, adapted from an Agatha Christie story, tells the tale of an ambitious British chauffeur who marries his American employer, one of the ri... Read more
Evil Under The Sun (1982)
7/10
Director: Guy Hamilton
Starring: Peter Ustinov, Jane Birkin, Maggie Smith, Diana Rigg, James Mason, Roddy McDowal...
Peter Ustinov, a delight as Hercule Poirot is at an exclusive Adriatic island resort for a holiday . But evil is aboard at his luxury hotel as the s... Read more
Marple: The Body in the Library (2004)
7.7/10
Starring: Joanna Lumley, Simon Callow, Tara Fitzgerald, Adam Garcia, Jack Davenport, Geral...
All Miss Marple's (Geraldine McEwan) razor sharp intuition and detective skills are required when the body of a mysterious blond is found in the libra... 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
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