Agatha Christie was able to explore (and at times poke fun at) the complexities of Englishness and its relationship to continental Europe. By Christopher Pittard, Senior Lecturer in English Literature ...

Agatha Christie fans are getting a double helping of intrigue and murder as we kick off 2026. The countdown is officially on for the release of The Seven Dials mystery, the adaptation of the author's ...

John Malkovich, 64, stars as the Belgian detective with an English accent to avoid sounding too much like foreigner and is asked to appear on screen 'the way he normally does' SUPER sleuth Hercule ...

John Malkovich played Poirot in tonight’s The ABC Murders (Picture: BBC) John Malkovich’s French accent threw The ABC Murders viewers right back to Johnny English as they tuned into the first episode ...

John Malkovich is predicting that Hercule Poirot fans “may hate” his English take on the Agatha Christie detective will air on television this Christmas. The actor will head up the BBC‘s three-part ...

"You almost succeeded in confusing Poirot!" says our favourite meticulous Belgian detective to the culprit in The Double Clue, revealing two important things – he often talks about himself in the ...

The English actor embodied the eccentric but brilliant detective from 1989 to 2013 and despite being very happily married since 1976, that hasn’t stopped female attention coming his way. “I would say ...

Anybody who looked carefully at the Christmas presents unwrapped by the family in Kenneth Branagh’s autobiographically inspired 1969-set film Belfast will have spotted a copy of Agatha Christie’s The ...

A hundred years ago, Agatha Christie introduced British readers to a small man with an impeccably maintained moustache who, with the help of his “little grey cells,” was very good at solving crimes.

The English actor embodied the eccentric but brilliant detective from 1989 to 2013 and despite being very happily married since 1976, that hasn’t stopped female attention coming his way. “I would say ...