"Death in the Clouds" (1992)

"THE MYSTERY OF THE BLUE TRAIN" (2005) Review

Although considered one of her most famous novels, 1934’s "Murder on the Orient Express" was not the first of Christie’s novels that featured a famous luxury train as a setting. The سال 1928 saw the publication of another novel called "The Mystery of the Blue Train", which told the story of a brutal murder aboard the famous Blue Train.

This story had its origins in Christie’s 1922 novella, "The Plymouth Express", which told the story of the murder of an Australian heiress. Christie took that story and expanded it into a full-length novel,...

"SAD CYPRESS” (2003) Review

Adapted from Agatha Christie’s 1940 novel, ”SAD CYPRESS” is a story about Hercule Poirot’s efforts to discover the truth behind the case of a young woman facing conviction for the murder of her ailing wealthy aunt and a lodge keeper’s daughter who has become her aunt’s companion. Directed سے طرف کی David Moore, this 90-minute movie starred David Suchet as the Belgian detective.

The story began with a doctor from a small town named Peter Lord who hires Hercule Poirot to clear the name of a young woman Elinor Carlisle. Elinor is facing trial for the murder of...

"PERIL AT END HOUSE" (1990) Review

I just realized something. I have never read Agatha Christie's 1932 novel, "Peril at End House". I find this ironic, considering that I have seen the 1990 ویژن ٹیلی movie adaptation of this novel at least three یا four times. One of these days, I will get around to reading Christie's novel and comparing it to the ویژن ٹیلی adaptation. Right now, I am going to focus on the latter.

Directed سے طرف کی Renny Rye and adapted سے طرف کی Clive Exton, "PERIL AT END HOUSE" is the first full-length ویژن ٹیلی movie aired on "AGATHA CHRISTIE'S POIROT". It is also about Belgian-born...

"HICKORY DICKORY DOCK" (1995) Review

Every once in a while, Agatha Christie wrote a novel in which she used a nursery rhyme as its title. This turned out to be the case for her 1955 novel, "Hickory Dickory Dock". Forty years after its publication, ITV aired an adaptation of the novel for its series, "AGATHA CHRISTIE'S POIROT".

"HICKORY DICKORY DOCK" began with a rash of thefts committed at a student hostel in 1936 London. Since her sister is the hostel's warden, Miss نیبو, لیموں recruits her boss, Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, to investigate what appears to be a case of kleptomania. It does not...

"HERCULE POIROT'S CHRISTMAS" (1994) Review

I have been a پرستار of Agatha Christie's 1938 novel, "Hercule Poirot's Christmas" aka "A Holiday for Murder" for years - ever since I was in my early adolescence. When I learned that the producers of the "AGATHA CHRISTIE'S POIROT" series aired its adaptation of it back in 1994, I looked آگے to watching it.

Written as a "locked room" mystery, "HERCULE POIROT'S CHRISTMAS" focused on Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot's investigation of the murder of Simeon Lee, a tyrannical patriarch of a wealthy family. The mean-spirited Lee, who had made his fortune in...