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They are trying to murder Agatha Christie

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From: The Sunday Telegraph London
Date: 20030316
Author:KEVIN MYERS

Agatha Christie's Sparkling Cyanide, Independent Television announced last week, is being turned into a two-hour television drama. But unlike previous interpretations of her work, it will not be true to the Christie world of tennis and croquet. Instead it will be set in a London Premiership club and will contain sex and nudity, its producer tells us excitedly. Which merely proves, once again, that some television programme-makers haven't got a clue.

It is commonly said that Christie's crime novels are set in England's past, but that is simply not true. There was never such a Cluedo idyll of ...

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