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Agatha Christie's Poirot Short Stories
Michele Viney:
I was watching an Agatha Christie season on BBC Three over the Easter and there were loads of her various films and series on, especially Poirot with the incomparable David Suchet. there were also several documentaries about her and her work and they mentioned her dislike of Poirot. She in fact wrote "Curtain: the Death of Poirot" back in the Forties, but her publisher and family persuaded her not to publish until much later. It eventually was published in 1975 a few months before her own death in 1976.
I thoroughly enjoyed the season and got to watch Geraldine McEwan play Miss Marple, a very different Marple from the one played by Joan Hickson which I was more familiar with. I think I'm with James on this one I prefer Geraldine McEwan, her Marple is much more accepting of human frailities and blunders.
By the way Welcome to the Forum Tosca! Let us know a bit about yourself in the Welcome Wagon Thread.
Michele
B L McAllister:
Doyle had the same problem with Sherlock Holmes. Now, I just wonder, how wide does this situation spread its oily wings? Is it possible that, say, Stout fell out of love with Nero Wolfe? or Gardner with Perry Mason, or, well, how wide?
JIM DOHERTY:
Byron,
Re your comment below:
--- Quote from: Byron Leon McAllister on April 11, 2007, 09:18:10 PM ---Doyle had the same problem with Sherlock Holmes. Now, I just wonder, how wide does this situation spread its oily wings? Is it possible that, say, Stout fell out of love with Nero Wolfe? or Gardner with Perry Mason, or, well, how wide?
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Well, I know that Ian Fleming's James Bond and Ed McBain's Steve Carella (though not the rest of the boys and girls of the 87th) both, like Holmes, had their brushes with the Reichenbach, though both, also like Holmes, escaped.
Nicolas Freeling's Piet Van der Valk and Ernest Tidyman's John Shaft were not so lucky. Their encounters with the Reichenbach were final and irreversible.
It does make you wonder how many others were tempted.
Ingrid:
What's a Reichenbach???
Jay Hartzler:
--- Quote from: Tosca on April 10, 2007, 06:32:03 PM ---It is common knowledge in England that Agatha Christie rather disliked Poirot and had to be encouraged to write more books about him. She wanted to kill him off quickly but he proved so popular she couldn't.
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There was a TV movie made in 1986 called Murder by the Book in which Agatha Christie meets her creation Poirot and finishes him off.
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0201788/
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