Thou shalt not murder – and underestimate sweet old ladies at your peril.
Thou shalt not murder – and underestimate sweet old ladies at your peril. Those were the morals of Agatha Christie’s beloved novels about the shrewd spinster sleuth who learnt everything about human nature from observing the goings-on in her home village of St Mary Mead. The TV adaptation ran on and off for almost three decades. Later stars Geraldine McEwan and Julia McKenzie have their fans but for us, the definitive performance was Joan Hickson’s, bird-like and watchful during the Eighties. Surely it’s time for a reboot soon?