The Great Detective

"MRS. McGINTY'S DEAD" (2008) Review

Since it first aired on television, I must admit that I have paid scant attention to "MRS. McGINTY'S DEAD", ITV's 2008 adaptation of Agatha Christie's 1952 novel. I find this amazing, since the novel has always been a inayopendelewa of mine. I am not claiming that the 2008 movie is terrible. I was simply distracted kwa other matters during my last two viewings. This third viewing proved to be the Charmed and I finally was able to ascertain the movie's quality.

Unlike its literary source, "MRS. McGINTY'S DEAD" was not set in the early 1950s. Because the television...

"PERIL AT END HOUSE" (1990) Review

I just realized something. I have never read Agatha Christie's 1932 novel, "Peril at End House". I find this ironic, considering that I have seen the 1990 televisheni movie adaptation of this novel at least three au four times. One of these days, I will get around to kusoma Christie's novel and comparing it to the televisheni adaptation. Right now, I am going to focus on the latter.

Directed kwa Renny Rye and adapted kwa Clive Exton, "PERIL AT END HOUSE" is the first full-length televisheni movie aired on "AGATHA CHRISTIE'S POIROT". It is also about Belgian-born...

"HICKORY DICKORY DOCK" (1995) Review

Every once in a while, Agatha Christie wrote a novel in which she used a nursery rhyme as its title. This turned out to be the case for her 1955 novel, "Hickory Dickory Dock". Forty years after its publication, ITV aired an adaptation of the novel for its series, "AGATHA CHRISTIE'S POIROT".

"HICKORY DICKORY DOCK" began with a rash of thefts committed at a student hostel in 1936 London. Since her sister is the hostel's warden, Miss lemon, limau recruits her boss, Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, to investigate what appears to be a case of kleptomania. It does not...

"MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS" (2010) Review

After being on the air for nearly two decades, "Agatha Christie’s POIROT" decided to air its own version of the mystery writer’s 1934 novel, "Murder on the Orient Express". Although there have been two other well known adaptations of the novel – the famous 1974 movie that starred Albert Finney and the 2001 teleplay that starred Alfred Molina. But this latest version starred David Suchet (considered kwa many to be the ultimate Hercule Poirot) in the starring role.

Directed kwa Philip Martin and written kwa Stewart Harcourt, "MURDER ON THE ORIENT...

"THREE ACT TRAGEDY" (2010) Review

When I was in my early teens, I had shifted my attention from Nancy Drew mysteries to those novels written kwa Agatha Christie. And I have not stopped since. I confess that this shift in kusoma material was the result of seeing the 1978 movie, "DEATH ON THE NILE", for the first time. Properly hooked on Christie's works, I focused my attention on her 1934 novel, "Murder in Three Acts", also known as "Three Act Tragedy".

I have seen two adaptations of Christie's 1934 novel. The first was televisheni adaptation in the mid 1980s, titled "MURDER IN THREE ACTS", which...

"LORD EDGEWARE DIES" (2000) Review

The worlds of Britain's upper-crust and artists mingled in Agatha Christie's 1933 novel called "Lord Edgeware Dies aka Thirteen at Dinner". There have been at least three movie and one radio adaptations of the novel in the past seven to eight decades. The most hivi karibuni was a 100 dakika televisheni adaptation that aired in 2000 on the ITV series, "AGATHA CHRISTIE'S POIROT".

In "LORD EDGEWARE DIES", Belgian-born detective Hercule Poirot is approached kwa celebrated stage actress, Jane Wilkinson aka Baroness Edgeware, to approach her rather unpleasant husband on the...