While the work of the "Queen of Crime" has been made into dozens of film, TV and stage adaptations, there hasn't been a major theatrical feature in the past 30 years since the lackluster 1985 film Ordeal by Innocence, starring Donald Sutherland and Christopher Plummer.īut now, Christie's work is seeing a resurgence thanks to a renewed effort from her estate to introduce her stories to a new generation - and reintroduce Christie as the vibrant, adventurous woman she was. In 1934 Austin Trevor took on the role of Poirot for the third time, directed by Henry Edwards. After all, how could Jane have stabbed Lord Edgware to death in his library at exactly the same time she was. Lord Edgware Dies was among the first of Christie’s works to be adapted for film. And yet the great Belgian detective couldn't help feeling that he was being taken for a ride. Hercule Poirot returns to London where he meets famous actress Jane Wilkinson. Over her career, the iconic British writer published more than 80 novels and short stories and widely is considered the best-selling author of all time, with more than 1 billion English-language copies and another billion in 44 foreign languages sold worldwide. Poirot had been present when Jane bragged of her plan to 'get rid of' her estranged husband. Agatha Christie Poirot: Lord Edgware Dies.
It has been almost 100 years since Agatha Christie put pen to paper for her very first book, The Mysterious Affair at Styles.
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