Mark Campbell 
Agatha Christie 
The Books, the Films and the Television Shows featuring Poirot, Miss Marple and More

Marking the 125th anniversary of Agatha Christie’s birth, this new edition offers an informed introductin to the chief proponent of the English village murder mystery. Although she created two enormously popular characters — the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, and the inquisitive elderly spinster and amateur sleuth Miss Jane Marple of St Mary Mead — it is not generally acknowledged that Agatha Christie wrote in many different genres: comic mysteries (Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?), atmospheric whodunits (Murder On The Orient Express), espionage thrillers (N or M?), romances (under the pseudonym of Mary Westmacott), plays (The Mousetrap) and poetry. This guide examines all of Christie’s novels and short stories and lists the various TV and film adaptations of her works.

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Mark Campbell has written for The Independent, Midweek, Crime Time and The Dark Side, and is one of the main contributors to the two-volume British Crime Writing: An Encyclopedia. He has written Pocket Essentials on Sherlock Holmes, Agatha Christie and Carry on Films. He lives in Kent and was the last theatre critic for The Kentish Times when they published reviews. He directs and appears in plays when he’s not busy reading his collection of Whizzer and Chips comics.