Poirot has aged and the world has changed quickly around him. In the midst of this we find Hercule Poirot and his little grey cells. This time it is the 1930s a divided country where suspicion and hatred are on the rise, and the gap between wealth and poverty is great and growing greater. In her fourth Agatha Christie adaptation in conjunction with Agatha Christie Limited and Mammoth Screen, BAFTA nominated writer Sarah Phelps continues to explore the 20th century through the work of Britain’s greatest crime writer. If Poirot is to match his most cunning nemesis everything about him will be called into question his authority, his integrity, his past, his identity. As Poirot attempts to investigate he is thwarted on every front by a police force that no longer trusts him, a public that no longer adores him, and an enemy determined to outsmart him. They strike in a methodical pattern and leave a copy of the ABC railway guide at the scene of each of murder. The year is 1933 and a killer stalks Britain, known only as A.B.C. Widely regarded as one of Agatha Christie’s best mysteries, The ABC Murders is one of the most surprising and unusual appearances by literature’s most famous detective. Poirot returns in a new adaptation of one of his most exhilarating cases.
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