The abc murders novel6/2/2023 Captain Hastings, Poirot’s Watson and most famous colleague, narrates the novel, but he’s nowhere to be seen. Writer Sarah Phelps and director Alex Gabassi chose to depart from the novel on some points that seem inexplicable. Intriguing stuff and generally what Dame Agatha plotted. Poirot, a recipient of letters signed “ABC” that forecast each crime, must find the killer before he institutes a reign of terror or, as he writes, releases “the wrath of God”. The series, like the novel, remains a mid-1930s affair about a killer who goes about the business of murdering people following the letters of the alphabet: a Mrs Asher killed in Andover, Betty Barnard dispatched in Bexhill, Sir Carmichael Clarke brained in Churston. Is the adaptation any good? I suppose that depends on how much fidelity to Christie one demands. People can’t get enough of Holmes (any incarnation), Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot, which seems sufficient grounds for the recent production (Amazon Prime Originals) of Agatha Christie’s The ABC Murders, a Poirot mystery from the 1936 book. Despite the evident distaste of possibly the most celebrated mystery novelists of the past 80 years (PD James and Georges Simenon), there can be no doubt that the public continues to love the amateur sleuth.
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