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"THE A.B.C. MURDERS" (2008) Review

Years ago, I had once compiled a सूची of my प्रिय novels written द्वारा Agatha Christie. One of those novels was her 1936 mystery, "The A.B.C. Murders". The novel led to a movie adaptation, a radio adaptation and two टेलीविज़न adaptations. One of the latter was the three-part miniseries that was adapted द्वारा Sarah Phelps for the BBC.

"THE A.B.C. MURDERS" is a rare tale from Christie. In it, Belgian-born sleuth Hercule Poirot helps Scotland Yard investigate a possible serial killer named "A.B.C.". The killer uses this moniker in the letters sent to Poirot before...
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"THEY DO IT WITH MIRRORS" (1991) Review

The late Joan Hickson starred as Miss Jane Marple in her 11th movie that featured the elderly sleuth, created द्वारा Agatha Christie. The movie in सवाल was "THEY DO IT WITH MIRRORS", an adaptation of Christie's 1952 novel.

While paying a visit to her old friend, the American-born Ruth वैन, वान Rydock, Miss Jane Marple is asked to visit the other woman's younger sister, Carrie Louise Serrocold. All three women were फ्रेंड्स at the same school in Italy when they were girls. Ruth is worried that something is very wrong at Stonygates, the Victorian mansion where...
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"THE MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR AT STYLES" (1990) Review

As a long time reader of Agatha Christie's novels, I have been well aware of her first novel that was published in 1920, namely "The Mysterious Affair at Styles". I read the novel once. But if I must be honest, I never became a प्रशंसक of it.

Due to my lackluster feelings for the novel, it took me a while to watch the टेलीविज़न adaptation of it, which aired on ITV's "AGATHA CHRISTIE'S POIROT" back in 1990. But eventually I got around to it and was amazed to discover that it had been the सेकंड Christie novel to be adapted as a feature-length film...
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Stars: 5/5

Plot: A group of people is lured into coming to an island under different pretexts. All have been complicit in the death(s) of other human beings but either escaped justice या committed an act that was not subject to legal sanction. The guests and servants are charged with their respective crimes द्वारा a gramophone recording after रात का खाना the first night and informed that they have been brought to the island to pay for their actions and one द्वारा one are starting to die in a manner that seems to parallel the ten deaths in the nursery rhyme.

The nursery rhyme: link