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As well as portraying Miss Marple on television, Hickson narrated Miss Marple stories for audio books. Christie mocked this insight in her foreword to Cards on the Table: "Spot the person least likely to have committed the crime and in nine times out of ten your task is finished. The review gave something of a backhanded compliment when it said that Christie "gives a sense of plausibility to the most preposterous situations and developments. Christie had long been a fan of detective novels, having enjoyed Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White and The Moonstone, and Arthur Conan Doyle's early Sherlock Holmes stories. Beginning in 2004, ITV broadcast a series of adaptations of Agatha Christie's books under the title Agatha Christie's Marple, usually referred to as Marple.

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UK editions continued to use the original title until the current definitive title appeared with a reprint of the 1963 Fontana Paperback in 1985.Reviews were generally positive on this adventure, which manages to keep the identity of the arch-criminal secret to the very end.

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They are able to eliminate several suspects due to the circumstances of their deaths and items being moved afterward, but ultimately they cannot identify the killer. He gets an original copy of the telegram sent to Tuppence and sees that her destination was altered on the copy he read.Black had worked with Pollock on Stranger in Town in 1957 and had previously hired Goodwin as his orchestrator. Christie settled into married life, giving birth to her only child, Rosalind Margaret Clarissa (later Hicks), in August 1919 at Ashfield. The score was written within a couple of weeks by Goodwin who was approached by Pollock after Pollock had heard about him from Stanley Black. Christie's British literary agent later wrote to her US representative, authorising American publishers to "omit the word 'Jew' when it refers to an unpleasant character in future books.

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Languages where the most recent edition retains racial epithets include Spanish, Greek, Serbian, Bulgarian, Romanian, [29] [ bettersourceneeded] Russian [30] and Hungarian, as well as the 1987 Soviet film adaptation Desyat Negrityat. A lawyer who helped set this up is also killed during this time, but on the mainland and outside of the story. We will also have to refrain from reviewing it thoroughly, as it is so full of shocks that even the mildest revelation would spoil some surprise from somebody, and I am sure that you would rather have your entertainment kept fresh than criticism pure. Shortly before the publication of Curtain, Poirot became the first fictional character to have an obituary in The New York Times, which was printed on page one on 6 August 1975.Christie herself changed the bleak ending to a more palatable one for theatre audiences when she adapted the novel for the stage in 1943. Both of the original US publications changed the title from that originally used in the UK, due to the offensiveness of the word in American culture, where it was more widely perceived as a racially loaded ethnic slur or insult compared to the contemporaneous culture in the United Kingdom. The film featured an all-star cast that included Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, Geraldine Chaplin, Tony Curtis, and Kim Novak.