Agatha Christie’s Intense 12-Part Crime Series Is the Author’s Best Adaptation of All Time

On-screen adaptations of revered books have at least two major action items: capturing the soul of the original work and casting the most fitting actors. Both of these could exist without the other, but securing the best of both worlds is where the cinematic magic happens. In the 1980s, the BBC’s Miss Marple series caught that lightning in a bottle. Agatha Christie‘s eccentric detective Hercule Poirot might slightly surpass Miss Jane Marple (Joan Hickson) in terms of fame, but the unassuming octogenarian investigator from the quaint village of St. Mary Mead is arguably the Queen of Crime’s greatest creation.