Hercule Poirot and the Stolen AIBU

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Would Poirot survive in an internet age?

What would Agatha Christie have made of it?

And can anyone explain the plot of Sparkling Cyanide to me? I have all AC's books and love to read them as I fall asleep. But I have never understood the ending of Sparkling Cyanide.

Joan HIckson IS Miss Marple.

And don't get me started on all those alternative ending adaptations!

Mr Osborne and the thallium is The Pale Horse. I re-read that a couple of weeks ago!

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The Pale Horse.

That's it - thank you.

I thought that was the creepiest of all the books, apart perhaps from And Then There Were None.

Comefromaway it's funny you should mention the alternative ending adaptations.

DH and I watched Cards on the Table only yesterday and were surprised by how much the adaptation differed from the plot of the book.

I always find Tommy and Tuppence unbearable.

And am not keen on Zoe Wanamaker as Mrs. Oliver.

Love Agatha Christie!
And Then There Were None scared me shitless when I was about 11.
My other all-time favourite is The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.

Love the David suchet Poirot, but don't like the books. He's just not a believable character. Love Joan Hickson as Marple. I agree the others aren't right. And Jeremy Brett for Sherlock Holmes.

Whistle73 I was also scared shitless by And Then There Were None.

Absolutely loved The Man in the Brown Suit. I thought it was very amusing.

Just read the plot of Pale Horse and I'm not sure I've ever read it! I honestly thought I'd read every one.

(Off to Amazon to order...)

I love The Moving Finger. It is a Miss Marple one, but she doesn’t come into it until nearly at the end.

You'll be really happy Whistle73 as it is one of her finest.

I didn't discover Taken at the Flood until 20 years ago. I thought it must have been a new one that had been recently published but I had just missed it by accident.

I love it when someone in Pointless chooses Agatha Christie as their final subject.

I always get several Pointless Answers. Easy-Peasy.

@TheKrakening3 - is that the one with the anonymous letters?

There's a heartwarming, although possibly inappropriate, 'ugly duckling' transformation for one of the characters, who's barely out of school isn't there?

Joan hickson is in one of the Margret Rutherford films

the Margaret Rutherford version has got a touch of humour the same as the Peter Ustinov versions but I love watching Joan Hickson and David Suchet just as much as the former

I do really like the 'narrator' books. Some of them bring in Marple or Poirot later on and in some of them (eg ATTWN) they don't feature at all.

Agatha Christie is one of a handful of authors I go back to each year, some of them are surprisingly creepy. And I agree about altered endings, I end up re-reading the novels in bemusement after listening to the radio adaptations.

Also, if people haven't read 'Come, Tell Me How You Live' do try and get hold of a copy. It's her account of a summer at one of her husband's archaeological digs and is brilliant.

There's a heartwarming, although possibly inappropriate, 'ugly duckling' transformation for one of the characters, who's barely out of school isn't there?

That's the one. Although from re-reading it (which I have done several times but not recently) I think Megan was actually in her early 20's but was being treated as a slightly backward schoolgirl by her father and stepmother.

My favourite is The Sittaford Mystery which doesn't feature either Poirot or Marple. The TV adaptation bore very little resemblance to the book though and had Marple in it .

I was given a huge box of AC books as a young teen and thought I'd read them all. I was delighted to discover I hadn't and read Sittaford, Elephants Can Remember and Postern of Fate as an adult.

My favourite Poirot is either Hercule Poirot's Christmas or Hickory Dickory Dock.

Have you seen that there is an adaptation of Death Comes As The End coming at Christmas?

Sorry it wasn't her stepmother, it was her actual mother.

Love Agatha Christie! I've read all of the Poirots and Miss Marples many, many times, and quite a few of the others (apart from Tommy and Tuppence, whose very names irritate me).

Favourite Poirot has to be Death on the Nile or Five Little Pigs. Miss Marple is probably The Body in the Library, though I also love Sleeping Murder, probably because I have strong memories of the Joan Hickson BBC adaptation which I watched as a child - quite scary!

I really like Sparkling Cyanide, never found it confusing. What I would really like to know is who Lucy Eylesbarrow ends up with at the end of 4:50 From Paddington. Miss Marple acts like it's really obvious, and I have no idea! Bryan? Or the police inspector?

Another fab one is Towards Zero, even if it does have boring Inspector Battle. Can't beat a bit of CHristie - the plots are second to none. Which is why it really pees me off when they change them for TV - I hated the adaptation of Ordeal by Innocence so much I didn't bother watching the ABC Murders. Even though I imagine Malkovich as Poirot would have been quite something!

I liked Cat Amongst the Pigeons.

I didn't like The Big Four. Way too convoluted.

I thknk the police inspector.