1999 audio adaptation by Michael Bakewell of Christie's 1954 mystery,
in one 90-minute episode. Richard Abernethie dies; his sister Cora
claims that he's been murdered, and by the next day has unambiguously
been murdered herself.
This is one of Christie's post-war depressive books, and it would
take a lot to make it fun. Alas, I found this a very muddy production:
the predominantly female cast all sound quite like each other, and
most of the characters are self-interestedly nasty, with even the one
sympathetic one too often blending into the crowd of greedy and
thoughtless unpleasantness. John Baddeley is always solid, but has a
fairly small role as Inspector Morton.
John Moffatt slips easily into the Poirot costume and does his best to
make it all come together, but I ended up enjoying this rather less
than most of the Bakewell adaptations.
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