This book is a comprehensive exploration of 90 years of film and television adaptations of the worlds best-selling novelists work. Drawing on extensive archival material, it offers new information regarding both the well-known and forgotten screen adaptations of Agatha Christies stories, including unmade and rare adaptations, some of which have been unseen for more than half a century. This history offers intriguing insights into the discussions and debates that surrounded many of these screen projects something that is brought to life through previously unpublished correspondence from Christie herself and a new wide-ranging interview with her grandson, Mathew Prichard.Agatha Christie on Screen takes the reader on a journey from little known silent film adaptations, through to famous screen productions including 1974sMurder on the Orient Express, as well as the television series of the Poirot and Miss Marple stories and, most recently, the BBCs acclaimed version ofAnd Then There Were None.                        

Dr Mark Aldridge is a senior lecturer in Film and Television at Southampton Solent University, UK, specialising in film and television history. Previous publications includeThe Birth of British Television, also published by Palgrave Macmillan. He has been a fan of Agatha Christie since he first sawAgatha Christies Poirot when he was seven.                        

Introduction.- PART I.Destination Unknown.- Chapter 1. The Silent Adventures.- Chapter 2. Poirot Comes to the Silver Screen.-PART II.Appointment with Death.- Chapter 3. The Early Television Adaptations.- Chapter 4. New Prospects and Problems in Television.-PART III. Wasps Nest.- Chapter 5. Christie Films Make an Impact.- Chapter 6. Margaret Rutherford as Miss Marple.- PART IV.Evil Under the Sun.- Chapter 7. A New Era for Agatha Christie Films.- Chapter 8. Peter Ustinov as Hercule Poirot.-PART V. Partners in Crime.- Chapter 9. Christie Comes Back to Television.- Chapter 10. New Approaches.-PART VI.In a Glass Darkly.- Chapter 11.Agatha Christies Miss Marple.- Chapter 12.Agatha Christies Poirot.-PART VII.Hidden Horizon.- Chapter 13. European Adaptations.- Chapter 14. Adaptations in the Rest of the World.- PART VIII.While theLight Lasts.- Chapter 15. Christie with a Twist.- Chapter 16. Looking to the Future.