The book bears no dedication, but it begins with a foreword: “This book is one of my own special favourites. As usual, if you haven’t read the book yet, don’t worry, I promise not to tell you whodunit! The Assistant Commissioner has worked it all out before anyone else – but he doesn’t uncover the murderer.
By chance, Charles’ father is the Assistant Commissioner of Scotland Yard, who agrees with Chief Inspector Taverner that Charles can sit in on the investigations as his unique position of trust, bridging the gap between the family and the police, could be useful.
Unearthing the ‘Lost City of Cecil B.In which Sophie Leonides decides she can’t marry Charles until the identity of her grandfather’s murderer is discovered. New ‘Murder on the Orient Express’ trailer amps up the mystery Coincidentally, the film will open just a few weeks after another big-screen Christie adaptation, Kenneth Branagh’s Murder on the Orient Express. Written by Fellowes and directed by Gilles Paquet-Brenner, Crooked House is the first screen adaptation of Christie’s 1949 novel (one of the very few Christie works that hadn’t already been adapted for film or television). “That description fits every member of this family,” Close responds with a wry laugh. “Murderers tend to feel that they are above the rules that govern ordinary mortals,” the detective explains over dinner at the family estate. It soon becomes apparent that the suspect list encompasses all three generations of the family, including characters played by Glenn Close, Julian Sands, Christina Hendricks, and Gillian Anderson. In Crooked House, an aristocratic young woman in 1950s England (Stefanie Martini) hires her ex-lover, a private investigator ( Max Irons), to solve the mystery of her grandfather’s gruesome death. From Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes and the godmother of the detective mystery, Agatha Christie, comes a tale of deceit, murder, and of course, family.
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