Agatha and the Midnight Murders

Agatha and the Midnight Murders
Genre	Crime Mystery
Written by	Tom Dalton
Directed by	Joe Stephenson
Starring	Helen Baxendale Blake Harrison Jacqueline Boatswain Gina Bramhill Daniel Caltagirone
Composer	Blair Mowat
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
Production
Executive producers	Emily Dalton Sebastian Cardwell
Producers	Carol Harding Tom Dalton
Cinematography	Birgit Dierken
Editor	Fiona Brands
Running time	93 Minutes
Production companies	Darlow Smithson Productions Factual Fiction
Release
Original network	Channel 5
First shown in	United Kingdom
Original release	5 October 2020 (2020-10-05)
External links
Channel 5 Website

Agatha and the Midnight Murders is a 2020 British alternative history television drama film about crime writer Agatha Christie. The film premiered on Channel 5 in the United Kingdom on 5 October 2020,^[1] and on PBS in the United States 25 May 2021.^[2] It was directed by Joe Stephenson.^[3]

Plot[]

Christie is having trouble collecting the American royalties on her published works and decides to kill off her most famous character, Hercule Poirot, in a bid to make a private cash sale of the manuscript. She hires a low-life man to accompany her as a bodyguard for a cut of the price. The action takes place in a hotel where Christie expects to complete the transaction. Christie and her bodyguard encounter the prospective buyers and a varied group of hotel guests. The suspense builds as a series of murders takes place in the hotel.

Cast[]

Helen Baxendale as Agatha Christie
Blake Harrison as Travis Pickford
Jacqueline Boatswain as Audrey Evans
Gina Bramhill as Grace Nicory
Daniel Caltagirone as Eli Schneider
as Frankie Lei
as Clarence Allen
as Nell Lewis
as PC O'Hanauer
Elizabeth Tan as Jun Yuhuan
Morgan Watkins as Rocco Vella
Alistair Petrie as Sir Malcolm Campbell

Production[]

Filming took place in Malta, back-to-back with Agatha and the Curse of Ishtar.^[4]

References[]

^ "Meet the cast of Agatha and the Midnight Murders". Radio Times.
^ Agatha and the Midnight Murders PBS, accessed 19 June 2021.
^ Singh, Anita (7 October 2020). "Agatha and the Midnight Murders, review: this sneaky Christie isn't a patch on the real thing". The Telegraph.
^ "Emily and Tom Dalton launch docs and drama indie". 14 May 2020.

External links[]

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Characters	Superintendent Battle Tommy and Tuppence Beresford Lady Eileen "Bundle" Brent Sir Henry Clithering Captain Arthur Hastings Chief Inspector James Japp Miss Jane Marple Ariadne Oliver Hercule Poirot Parker Pyne Mr. Harley Quin Raymond West
Locations	St. Mary Mead
Novels	The Mysterious Affair at Styles The Secret Adversary The Murder on the Links The Man in the Brown Suit The Secret of Chimneys The Murder of Roger Ackroyd The Big Four The Mystery of the Blue Train The Seven Dials Mystery The Murder at the Vicarage The Sittaford Mystery Peril at End House Lord Edgware Dies Murder on the Orient Express Why Didn't They Ask Evans? Three Act Tragedy Death in the Clouds The A.B.C. Murders Murder in Mesopotamia Cards on the Table Dumb Witness Death on the Nile Appointment with Death Hercule Poirot's Christmas Murder Is Easy And Then There Were None Sad Cypress One, Two, Buckle My Shoe Evil Under the Sun N or M? The Body in the Library Five Little Pigs The Moving Finger Towards Zero Death Comes as the End Sparkling Cyanide The Hollow Taken at the Flood Crooked House A Murder Is Announced They Came to Baghdad Mrs McGinty's Dead They Do It with Mirrors After the Funeral A Pocket Full of Rye Destination Unknown Hickory Dickory Dock Dead Man's Folly 4.50 from Paddington Ordeal by Innocence Cat Among the Pigeons The Pale Horse The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side The Clocks A Caribbean Mystery At Bertram's Hotel Third Girl Endless Night By the Pricking of My Thumbs Hallowe'en Party Passenger to Frankfurt Nemesis Elephants Can Remember Postern of Fate Curtain Sleeping Murder
As Mary Westmacott	Giant's Bread Unfinished Portrait Absent in the Spring The Rose and the Yew Tree A Daughter's a Daughter The Burden
Short story collections	Poirot Investigates Partners in Crime The Mysterious Mr Quin The Thirteen Problems The Hound of Death The Listerdale Mystery Parker Pyne Investigates Murder in the Mews The Regatta Mystery The Labours of Hercules The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories Three Blind Mice and Other Stories The Under Dog and Other Stories The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding Double Sin and Other Stories The Golden Ball and Other Stories Poirot's Early Cases Miss Marple's Final Cases and Two Other Stories Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories The Harlequin Tea Set While the Light Lasts and Other Stories
Plays	Black Coffee And Then There Were None Appointment with Death Murder on the Nile The Hollow The Mousetrap Witness for the Prosecution Spider's Web Towards Zero Verdict The Unexpected Guest Go Back For Murder Fiddlers Three Akhnaton Chimneys
Radio and television plays	Wasp's Nest The Yellow Iris Three Blind Mice Butter in a Lordly Dish Personal Call
Other books	The Road of Dreams Come, Tell Me How You Live Star Over Bethlehem Poems An Autobiography
Depictions	Agatha Christie Memorial Agatha (1979 film) Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures (2004 docudrama) The Unicorn and the Wasp (2008 TV episode) Agatha and the Truth of Murder (2018 film) Agatha and the Curse of Ishtar (2019 film) Agatha and the Midnight Murders (2020 film)
Related	Archie Christie (first husband) Max Mallowan (second husband) Ashfield, Torquay (home) Greenway Estate (home) Agatha Award Agatha Christie Award (Japan)
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