![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In Leslie Darbon’s stage adaptation, one of the subplots in the original novel is omitted (thus robbing us of one other murder!), presumably to allow for a tighter, slicker theatrical experience that cannot “cut away” like a TV version. Packed with all the usual Christie plot tropes (hidden identities, clandestine affairs, financial discrepancies), its twists, turns and red herrings are considered to be some of the crime writer’s most ingenious after The Mousetrap. Luckily, little old Miss Marple pokes her nose in, albeit after the murder has taken place, to ensure that the killer doesn’t get away with it undetected. In fact, all the residents of Chipping Cleghorn are fully aware where and when it will take place, thanks to an advertisement in the local newspaper: on Friday at Little Paddocks, the home of Letitia Blacklock, at 6.30pm. In Agatha Christie’s A Murder Is Announced, the killing doesn’t simply happen out of the blue. ![]()
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