ITV Studios' Mammoth Screen and Agatha Christie Ltd. will produce it for BBC One and the BBC's video-on-demand service iPlayer in a co-commission with BritBox International.
The story is set in 1954. “On a train to London, a man going by the name of Luke Fitzwilliam meets Miss Pinkerton, who tells him that a killer is on the loose in the sleepy English village of Wychwood under Ashe,” according to a plot description. “The villagers believe the deaths are mere accidents, but Miss Pinkerton knows otherwise – and when she’s later found dead on her way to Scotland Yard, Luke feels he must find the killer before they can strike again.
“I’ve watched every Agatha Christie adaptation out, because Christie wrote for the world, and the whole world loves her back,” said Ejiwunmi-Le Berre. “But somehow I’d never read one of her novels. When I first read, I couldn’t believe how daring, experimental and furious the book was. Nothing like I’d expected. From the first read, the book was shouting at me how to enter and adapt it.”
Said Gaur: “I am part of the worldwide club of Agatha Christie’s fans and followers and therefore thrilled to be shaping one of her works for the screen. I was drawn to the sassy, cool, witty and not to be messed with women ofAdded James Prichard, executive producer for Agatha Christie Ltd.: “This is one of my great grandmother’s best and most disconcerting titles. Of course, murder isn’t easy.
Indeed, Christie’s novel was putting “the post-war, quintessentially English village under the magnifying glass and exposing the secrets that lurk beneath the picture-perfect surface,” said James Gandhi, executive producer for Mammoth Screen. is the latest in the ongoing series of Agatha Christie adaptations made by Mammoth Screen and Agatha Christie Ltd. for the BBC following the likes of
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