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Agatha Christie presents … death on television

If life is a mystery, that of the queen of the genre, Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, is something out of the ordinary. But if we trace his best works, we may glimpse small pieces of his imposing personality, his love life and his love of reading. This is the focus of the documentary that Movistar + premiered this month, entitled “Agatha Christie: 100 years of suspense”, directed by Sean Davison and which selects the author’s most representative novels from the first, “The Mysterious Case of Styles” published in 1920.

The choice of the works selected among the more than 66 published, is not made at random, and they are aimed at that beyond the written word, television has been one of the great beneficiaries of Christie’s work, since the little The screen has been the perfect showcase for the author’s plots, crimes and characters to the greater glory of her 3,000 million books sold and managed to further elevate two of her fetish characters, Hercule Poirot (“a short Belgian”) and Miss Marple (“an old lady”.

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