22/05/08
And Then There Was Agatha -
Categories: I haven't blogged in a week or so, so here's the essential need-to-know stuff:
- I have lately spent most of my time in barns.
- I have new glasses. It's a radical departure for me.
- I bought a puppet last week.
- I went to an excellent reunion of people from my student theatre days. I organised it, and I'm happy to say that 25 attended, all were good eggs, and no one had aged badly.
- Today I saw a video of my bladder.
But mainly lately I've found myself immersed - accidentally - in Agatha Christie. I found myself last week booking tickets for And Then There Were None (the play coming to Guildford next week), while watching the Agatha Christie episode of Dr Who, while playing the And Then There Were None PC game from several years back. Is Dame Aggie undergoing a mini-revival, and I'm being caught up in it? Or is it coincidence? I'm not entirely sure. Worth investigating perhaps... No, it isn't.
I have always been a fan. And Then There Were None (aka Ten Little Indians, aka Ten Little other things) is my Desert Island Book, and over my teenage years I collected almost all of her 80 books. I loved 'em. Give me a Poirot over a Miss Marple any day, but any would do really. I was a particular fan of, apart from the aforementioned ATTWN, The Big Four, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Murder On The Orient Express (of course), The ABC Murders, Cat Among The Pigeons... I could go on. I think that the only one I sussed out early on was Dead Man's Folly. So if you fancy trying outsmart her, start with that one.
The PC game I'm currently playing, based on And Then There Were None but with a different ending (otherwise it would be easy), is proving great fun - the first computer game I've played in years that wasn't Minesweeper, Freecell, or a simple one on Facebook. It's one of those point-and-click adventure games, where you can pick up objects, walk around, and talk to badly-rendered versions of people. It's hardly Grand Theft Auto, but one step at a time.
And the Dr Who episode. See it? If you did, did you spot the continuous references to Agatha Christie novels? Probably not, but there were loads. Here are the ones I spotted:
Why Didn't They Ask Evans
N or M
Nemesis
The Moving Finger
Appointment With Death
The Body In The Library
Cards On The Table
Sparkling Cyanide
They Do It With Mirrors
Crooked House
And Then There Were None
Death Comes As The End
Endless Night
...and I'm sure there were more too. Any other closet Agatha fans out there? Join me, before we all get killed off.
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