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Interview with Julius Green, Author of Curtain Up: Agatha Christie, A Life in the Theatre

All About Agatha Christie

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The Flamboyance of Poirot

People read Poirot books because they want to reading Poirot you know and I produced Black Coffee. Some of the detectives that she puts into her stage plays are very very backfoot, he says. They're deliberately sort of neutral characters who come in and ask questions - not flamboyant or characterful but just interrogators. So a point with death the hollow go back for murder a murder on the gnar she gets rid of Poirot  and she herself never wrote a martha play of course rightExactly the same reason there's been a quite good adaptation of the mirror crack of a couple of years ago which sort of works with marple there.

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