Poirot is back in a new three-part adaptation of one of his most exhilarating cases. Starring John Malkovich as Hercule Poirot and Rupert Grint as Inspector Crome
The ABC Murders is widely regarded as one of Agatha Christie’s best mysteries.
England, 1933. Hercule Poirot (John Malkovich), older, greyer and no longer revered by the public, has been receiving mysterious letters from a stranger who calls themselves A.B.C and the author has an obsessive, ominous interest in Hercule. Hercule alerts the police at Scotland Yard but he’s met with utter disdain as the new hothead officer, Inspector Crome (Rupert Grint), refuses to see him.
Hercule receives another letter from A.B.C. forewarning something sinister in Andover. Hercule travels there immediately and makes a shocking discovery – the brutally murdered body of Alice Asher with an ABC Railway Guide beside her body. Despite the police’s confidence that the culprit was her alcoholic husband, Hercule believes that there is a killer at large.
The police continue to reject Hercule’s theories but he receives another letter from A.B.C. threatening a second murder in Bexhill. Hercule travels there immediately but he is too late once again – Betty Barnard, a flirtatious café waitress, has been murdered and there’s an ABC Railway Guide beside her body too.
Finally, Scotland Yard take interest in Hercule but far from trusting Hercule, Inspector Crome holds him in deep suspicion. How does Hercule know so much about these murders? And what is he hiding about his past?
Production details: Writer and Executive Producer, Sarah Phelps. Executive Producers for Mammoth Screen, Damien Timmer and Helen Ziegler. Executive Producers for Agatha Christie Ltd, James Prichard and Basi Akpabio. Director, Alex Bagassi. Producer, Farah Abushwesha.
Agatha Christie’s The ABC Murders – premieres Sunday 5th May at 7:40pm on ABC
