A love pentagon, including a recently remarried sports star, his current wife, his ex-wife, and two men with feelings for the women add fuel to the fire. In this story, a wealthy woman is murdered, and the prime suspect appears to have been framed. Murders are the culmination of strings of events that lead to violence. Towards Zero ( US/ UK) takes the premise of that all murder stories get the narrative wrong– that the murder shouldn’t take place at the beginning, but rather at the end. The Secret of Chimneys ( US/ UK) is her missing story of murder, international espionage, and a long-lost heir to a central European throne. Recently, two more of Christie’s own adaptations of her novels were made available for production. In each case, Christie deleted Poirot from the narrative because she believed his character overwhelmed the production (for more on these changes, please see my article “ Waiting for Poirot.”) While some of Christie’s plays are based on short stories or original ideas, over the course of her career, Christie dramatized several of her own novels for the stage.Īnd Then There Were None ( US/ UK), Christie’s tale of strangers who are invited to an isolated island, accused of murder, and slain one by one, is perhaps Christie’s most famous and most frequently performed adaptation of her own novels.Ĭhristie adapted four of her own Poirot novels to the stage: Appointment With Death ( US/ UK), Go Back for Murder ( US/ UK) (based on Five Little Pigs), The Hollow ( US/ UK), and Murder on the Nile ( US/ UK) (based on Death on the Nile). The dramatic potential of many of her crime stories are well known by the Queen of Crime herself and by other playwrights.
Nearly all of Agatha Christie’s mysteries have a life outside of their existence as books.
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