I'm halfway through "Agatha Christie's Poirot" by Mark Aldridge and it's being a delight (swipe for the cover). My preference goes to the context, discussing, and analysis Aldridge does for each work and adaptation, but the book is full of "extras" that add up to the arguments, like unpublished excerpts from Christie's autobiography, interviews, letters, reader reports, reactions at the time to the book's publication, visual and radio adaptations, some of which did not survive, but others that are still available, showing the rigorous and huge amount of work and research Aldridge must have put into this book.
The text is accompanied by book covers from editions through time and different countries. Some of these, depicting Poirot. As a reader that sometimes feels the adaptation doesn't portray the characters quiet as I imagined them, I do understand the resistance Christie had with depictions of Poirot. Still, I find it interesting to see how he was portrayed.
So, I thought I would share some of Portuguese book covers that depict Poirot. These are from the Portuguese collection, #ColecçãoVampiro, that was quite important for the dissemination of the genre in Portugal. The collection has more than 700 volumes and it was published between 1947 and 2008.
The books from the image (by order of the publication in this collection):
The Labours of Hercules (same in PT)
Dead Man's Folly (translated as Poirot and the Macabre Game)
The Clocks (translated as Poirot and the 4 Clocks)
Curtain Poirot's Last Case (The Curtain Drops The Last Case of Poirot)
One, Two, Buckle my Shoe/ The Patriotic Murders (same in PT)
Problem at Pollensa Bay and other stories (translated as Poirot and Company and with an introduction, a list of titles in the collection, a list of original titles, and a list of characters with notes by Joel Lima)
The #TBR tin has spoken.
I've been dipping in and out of "Poirot, The Greatest Detective in the World" by Mark Aldridge since it came out, but I wanted to read it "properly" :-)
I started it yesterday's night thinking I would read just a little bit, but I'm must confess this is one most difficult to put it down 😍
Husband and I took Suchet DVDs out and are watching them in order, I'm also re-reading some of the books because of that, so the time for "Poirot" couldn't be better.
Can I just add how beautiful I think this cover is?
I know the original book was NEVER written to be camp but this TV movie had such fun with an amazing cast that I've fallen in love with it all over again! #DianaRigg#MaggieSmith#Poirot#AgathaChristie
Y'all, "spills" used to be put on the mantlepiece in a container simply because you used them to light the fires nightly. Yes, they were useful. Yes, they were on purpose. No, #Christie didn't mess up by having #Poirot notice them!
And finally, the murderer didn't burn them cos AT THE TIME no fire was burning in the grate. Remember WHEN the note was torn into spills.
Also, as Poirot said: "there were only five short minutes in which he could have taken it"
🔍 May we invite you to lose yourself in hours of highly-entertaining detective drama? Over 30 episodes of Poirot, Sherlock Holmes, Father Brown and Julie Enfield Investigates (and more added weekly).
Back in the spring I wrapped up my 12th #AgathaChristie book - "The ABC Murders" (1936) - a return to full-length mysteries after a few stops with short story collections.
Focused on uncovering a serial killer who is sending letters to Poirot, targeting victims matching alphabet. The book is unique in that it uses both first and third person narrative to tell the story.
@WanderingInDigitalWorlds The visuals are stunning, the cinematography is very good, it's not the best #Poirot film you'll ever see but it's well worth the 2 hours.
I liked Branagh’s #MurderOnTheOrientExpress. #DeathOnTheNile wasn’t great - but then again, #GalGodot can’t act. Curious about #AHauntingInVenice since it’s not a pure adaptation. It’s based on 1969’s #HalloweenParty - but obviously a lot has changed. There’s kids being drowned in the source material, so good call dumping that!