Agatha Christie Old and the 1963 Cannes Film

and the 1963 Cannes Film Festival

but it is also a dazzlingly original work of fiction

without relying on the largesse of her upper middle-class family who wonder aloud if she should be doing something better with her life

Her explanation

this new friendship sparks an intense attachment that makes the dynamic dangerous for all

Agatha Christie Old and the 1963 Cannes FilmSince her debut in 1920 with The Mysterious Affair At Styles, Agatha Christie has become the chief proponent of the English village murder mystery. Although she created two enormously popular characters the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, and the inquisitive elderly spinster and amateur sleuth Miss Jane Marple of St Mary Mead it is not generally acknowledged that she wrote in many different genres: comic mysteries (Why Didn't They Ask Evans?),