Murder by the Book

APPROPIATE

1986 / 51min.

Rating3

Genres

Crime

Drama

Mystery

Thriller

TV Movie

Synopsis

Agatha Christie’s agents propose that it’s time for her to publish the manuscript she wrote thirty-five years earlier, a novel in which she finally kills off her most famous creation. And it’s not an entirely sad occasion. “That wretched little man,” she says. “He’s always been so much trouble. How is it Miss Marple has never upset me at all, not ever?” That night, who should appear at her doorstep but the wretched little man himself, Hercule Poirot? The great fictional detective and his creator proceed to play a very Christie-like game of cat and mouse for the manuscript – and for their own lives.

Directors

Actors

Ian Holm

Richard Wilson

John Atkinson

Peggy Ashcroft

Michael Aldridge

Dawn Archibald

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