Now that's a worker's compensation claim that doesn't come along every day!

I thought of you and your recently published book yesterday...I was watching a documentary about Agatha Christie that featured David Suchet. It included a visit to her home and an interview with her grandson.

I'm embarrassed to admit I've never seen the series starring Suchet as Poirot. I think I'll put it on my winter viewing list!

I hadn't watched any of the TV series until I started this project, and I've still only watched a sampling. There are just so many books and stories to read and only so much time. I've enjoyed the episodes I saw. My former editor wrote a reminiscence for the book of meeting and dancing with David Suchet.

I've watched more of the recent movies and mini-series--both of the Branagh Poirots and most of the British mini-series, I think. I really like how the mini-series make an effort to show the darkness behind the stories. The earlier British TV series, it seems to me, are too soft-edged. I've seen it called "nostalgia porn." Ha!

I think I've seen the documentary you saw. If it's the one I'm thinking about, JC Bernthal and/or Mark Aldridge were interviewed. JC (Jamie) is my co-editor, and his specialty is queer studies. He dominates that part of Christie studies, but he also writes about Christie and war and, having a bachelor's degree in religion, he writes about Christie and religion, as well. Mark wrote a chapter for us on TV and movie adaptations of Christie's work. He's written a very successful book about Hercule Poirot and is contracted to write one about Miss Marple. Both of them have really encyclopedic knowledge of all things Christie, and both of them (gulp) are around my older children's age.

Congratulations! Next up in your academic career is participation in a book with the word "festschrift" in its title.

My first thought was that I wouldn't live long enough to participate in a festschrift for Jamie or Mark, but we do have some illustrious participants in our volume who are ever so slightly older than me.

Honestly, it would still be a race against time.

Was Agatha Christie the one who adopted one of two twins and the man she adopted them from said why don't you take both, they're small? One went on to become very wealthy and the other not so much. They later met?

Is she the one who crashed a car, or abandoned it, went missing, was in the newspapers, and for some reason was staying in a hotel?

Or am I thinking of someone else?

WTG,
David Suchet is to Hercule Poirot as Jeremy Brett is to Sherlock Holmes, as Alec Guiness is to George Smiley

etc.etc.

Daniel,
Yes, her husband had gone off with another woman, she'd had enough, wanted some alone time and vanished for a few weeks, making newspaper headlines until turning up in a Harrogate Hotel.

Marry Anna,
Thank you. And her adopted son? What kind of relationship did they have? Distant, close, etc.?

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Originally posted by Mary Anna:
I think I've seen the documentary you saw. .

For anyone who might be interested, it's available on Prime Video.

https://www.amazon.com/Mystery...h%2Caps%2C139&sr=8-1

There were no adopted children, only the daughter she had with her first husband.

Yes, she disappeared for several days after her husband told her he was leaving her for another woman. She had no way to know that it would ever be more than a private matter. She didn't have the kind of fame at that time where one would expect the kind of furor that erupted over the search for her. For the rest of her long life, she never spoke of that time.

Interesting. Thank you again.