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2005: Agatha Christie: And Then There Were None (PC and Wii). 2006: Agatha Christie: Murder on the Orient Express (PC) 2007: Agatha Christie: Death on the Nile (I-Spy hidden-object game) (PC) 2007: Agatha Christie: Evil Under the Sun (PC and Wii) 2008: Agatha Christie: Peril at End House (I-Spy hidden-object game) 2009: Agatha Christie: The ABC ...
Ariadne Oliver does not function as a detective, even in the novel in which she appears without Poirot (The Pale Horse).In Cards on the Table, she does interview some of the suspects, which in turn allows her to discover a hidden motive that even the police were unable to find; in Elephants Can Remember, she again interviews witnesses, but none of the essential ones.
ITV adapted the story into a television programme in the series Agatha Christie's Poirot, starring David Suchet as Hercule Poirot and Zoë Wanamaker as Ariadne Oliver. The adaptation – with significant differences from the novel – was written by Nick Dear and aired in the US on A&E Network in December 2005 and in the UK on ITV1 in March 2006.
The previous movie, also based on Christie’s 1937 work of detective fiction, starred Peter Ustinov as Poirot, with Olivia Hussey, Bette Davis, George Kennedy and Angela Lansbury. 3. The Mirror ...
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Zoë Wanamaker returned to the role of Ariadne Oliver, marking her fifth out of six appearances on the show in total. Greta Scacchi (Mrs Burton-Cox), Vanessa Kirby (Celia Ravenscroft), Iain Glen (Dr Willoughby) and Ferdinand Kingsley (Desmond Burton-Cox) were also among the cast. The adaptation includes some significant additions to the plot.
The characters of Ariadne Oliver, Pamela "Poppy" Stirling, Colonel and Rhoda Despard, Jim Corrigan, and Rev. and Mrs Dane Calthrop, are omitted from the adaptation; the omission of Rhoda and Colonel Despard is probably due to the fact that in the Agatha Christie's Poirot adaptation of Cards on the Table, Rhoda dies in place of Anne Meredith ...
Mrs Oliver learns that a woman in the apartment building had recently died by falling from her window. A week passes before she tells Poirot, who feels this is what bothers Norma. The woman was Louise Charpentier. Norma says that her father ran off with Louise Birell. Later, Mrs Oliver finds a piece of paper linking Louise Charpentier to Andrew.