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The ITV show is based on many of Agatha Christie 's famous crime fiction series, which revolves around the fictional private investigator, Hercule Poirot. David Suchet starred as the fictional detective. Initially produced by LWT, the series was later produced by ITV Studios.
Poirot: With David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Philip Jackson, Pauline Moran. Hercule Poirot, a famous Belgian detective, who has an impeccable knack for getting embroiled in a mystery, solves crimes along with Captain Hastings and Scotland Yard Chief Inspector James Japp.
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- 1990-01-18
- Crime, Drama, Mystery
- 100
There are 14 US collections, excluding Poirot's Early Cases, since all of its eighteen stories appeared in earlier collections, and The Last Séance: Tales of the Supernatural and Midwinter Murder, which each include only one previously unavailable Christie story.
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In spring 1944 during World War II, Gordon Cloade marries a widow he meets on board ship to New York, Rosaleen Underhay. A few days after arriving in London with his new wife, his London home is bombed, killing all but two people: Rosaleen and her brother, David Hunter. Gordon did not write a new will upon arrival, and his existing will is invalida...
In spring 1946, Lynn Marchmont, a Wrenduring the war, settles again in her mother's home in the village of Warmsley Vale in peacetime, at first happy to be home, then finding life dull. She has been engaged to farmer Rowley Cloade since before the war. David guards his sister and her fortune. Mrs Marchmont gets up the courage to ask Rosaleen for fi...
Superintendent Spence: investigating officer.Sergeant Graves: Spence's assistant.Rosaleen Cloade: twice widowed while in her early 20s; formerly Mrs Robert Underhay. Most recently married to Gordon Cloade.The title of the book in both the UK and US markets is a line from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar in a speech by Brutus in Act IV: "There is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood leads on to fortune . . .". The quotation is given in full as the epigraphto the novel.
For once, Maurice Richardson, in his review of the 21 November 1948 issue of The Observer, was slightly unimpressed: "Agatha Christie has, if not a whole day off, at least part of the afternoon. The killing of the blackmailing Enoch Arden, who puts up at the local to harry the already embarrassed Cloade family, the murder that follows, and Poirot's...
The false alibi used by the murderer of a witness sighting the missed train smoke was a partial re-use of a plot device used by Christie in the 1925 short story The Sign in the Sky, later published in the 1930 collection The Mysterious Mr. Quin.
1948, Dodd Mead and Company (New York), March 1948, Hardcover, 242 pp1948, Collins Crime Club (London), November 1948, Hardcover, 192 pp1949, Pocket Books(New York), Paperback1955, Dell Books, Paperback, 224 ppTelevision
A television film was produced in 2006 with David Suchet as Poirot in the ITV series Agatha Christie's Poirot. The cast included Elliot Cowan as David Hunter, Eva Birthistle as Rosaleen, Celia Imrie as Kathy Cloade, Jenny Agutter as Adela Marchmont and Tim Pigott-Smithas Dr Lionel Woodward. The film made several significant changes to the plot: 1. Like almost all episodes of the TV series, the adaptation shifts the setting to the late 1930s. 2. David's motive is modified in the adaptation, up...
Radio
John Moffatt played Poirot in the 2004 BBC Radio 4 adaptation of the novel.
Taken at the Flood (2006) at IMDb- Agatha Christie
- 1948
Jul 3, 2011 · During a village's Hallowe'en party, a young girl boasts of having witnessed a murder from years before. No one believes her tale until her body is found later on in the evening, drowned in the apple-bobbing bucket.
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- Crime, Drama, Mystery
- Charlie Palmer
- 2011-07-03
TV Episode. At a flower show, an older woman in a wheelchair approaches Poirot, gives him an empty seed packet, and asks him to visit her the next day. When Poirot arrives the next day, the woman is dead, murdered with poison.
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From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions.
