While much of the novel's plot was retained, the adaptation featured a number of changes, which included the setting being changed to Deauville, France, where filming took place on-site. It was produced by Carnival Films, and starred David Suchet as Hercule Poirot, and Hugh Fraser as Arthur Hastings. It was translated to English in 2007 and published by Harper Collins.Agatha Christie Poirot - Murder on the Links DVD 1996 Az Ijedt szemű lány / Directed by Andrew Grieve / Starring: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Bill Moody, Damien Thomas UPC 5999546330847 REGION 2 PAL DVD MADE IN EU AUDIO: English 2.0, Hungarian 2.0Īn adaptation of the novel was made for the series Agatha Christie's Poirot on 11 February 1996. The novel was filmed for television with David Suchet as Poirot in 1996 and in 2003 the graphic novel adaptation was published in France by Emmanuel Proust editions. John Moffatt starred as Poirot in the BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of 1990.
He says of the real case of the serial wife-killer George Joseph Smith: "he obeyed the common dictates of human nature, arguing that what had once succeeded would succeed again, and he paid the penalty of his lack of originality."
Poirot is in his element on this case, revealing that human nature is always repetitive.
The plot has peculiar complications and the reader will have to be very astute indeed if he guesses who the criminal is until the last complexity has been unravelled.Īs Laura Thompson writes in her biography of Christie's life, Murder on the Links was "very French." Agatha Christie had always been influenced by French crime writers (specifically, Gaston Leroux, author of The Mystery of the Yellow Room and The Phantom of the Opera) and this story shows some marked differences in tone and style from the novels published on either side of it.
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