Abc Murders With Poiret

[tamaris]

Can anyone give me a summary, I watched all 3 but with all the flash backs etc I am at a loss as to what it was all about ?

[Rockrose]

I thoroughly enjoyed it, the flashbacks are to his life in Belgium before he came to England

[tamaris]

Yes I got that it was the end really. The man that carried out the murders not Cust, why did he do the murders and what for ?

[goodgoalie]

He wanted to inherit his brother's title and money; the other murders were just a smokescreen

[Rockrose]

Franklin committed the Murders to give him cover for killing his brother for his money, he used cust as a patsy to take the blame. Cust wasn’t aware of what was going on because of his tumour

[Jackdaw33]

People are murdered in alphabetical order for no reason. Poirot eventually deduces that the intended victim was C, camouflaged by the other murders so as to avoid detection.

[margarettom]

I'd recommend the book. That way you'll get the correct version and an enjoyable period read.

[Jackdaw33]

I agree. Get the book. My 2 favourite Agatha Christie novels are Murder Is Easy and Endless Night, neither of which feature Poirot or Miss Marple. They are real page turners. When Murder Is Easy was televised a few years back it featured Julia McKenzie as Miss Marple, who doesn't appear in the book. The haunting climax to the dénouement was totally lacking. I was most disappointed.

[ChillDoubt]

I thought the first episode was good, if a little slow.
Missed part 2 inexplicably and in work this evening so will catch up on iplayer when convenient.

[tamaris]

Many thanks.

[Spicerack]

It was a typical example of today's BBC ruining something for the sake of their juvenile agenda.

[Jackdaw33]

I may be wrong but I cannot recall any flashbacks in the book. The ITV version of the film with David Suchet is faithful to the original text.

[MallyJ]

I am just not fond of people mucking around with original stories....I liked Agatha Christie books and read all of them. Having said that himself thoroughly enjoyed it whilst I read a totally different book after watching the first half an hour!

[KUSTARD]

I saw the Poirot version was on at the same time as the first episode on ITV3 and wondered if this would have been a better watch

[Jackdaw33]

It most certainly would have been. David Suchet plays Poirot to perfection and all the ITV versions tell the stories as they were written.

[Ian b]

I thought it was slow, boring and not entertaining at all. There were no explanation as to why Cust was chosen for the task, or in fact, how Poirot arrived at his solution. It was drab, and as the BBC still hasn't learnt yet, DARK. As a side point, my grandfather came to the UK as a refugee in WWI, but went back after, and my father was born here in 1916.

[Jackdaw33]

I did not watch it but in the original story Poirot and Hastings are at Doncaster races as the tip-off was that the next murder would be in D for Doncaster. Hastings remarks that the crowds are so big that one could easily get lost in them. Poirot realises the significance of this; that the other murders were a cover to hide the identity of the intended victim.

[hellywelly4]

I ploughed through it and enjoyed it on the whole. I hadn't read the original so didn't compare it to anything. I thought it was very slow - the best I can say is that it passed a pleasant three hours.

[BagPussAA]

It really was a shame that this latest adaptation missed the point of the story so badly. It did not show how Hercule got to his conclusion, how he deduced that the killer was hiding in plain sight. It left out the part of the families of the victims helping him "solve" the case which in turn leads him to suspect Clarke in the first place.