Mrs. McGinty is dead

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Episode of the series Agatha Christie's Poirot
title Mrs. McGinty is dead
Original title Mrs. McGinty's Dead
Country of production United Kingdom
original language English
length 93 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
classification Season 11, episode 1
58th episode overall ( list )
First broadcast September 14, 2008 on ITV
Rod
Director Ashley Pearce
script Nick Dear
production Trevor Hopkins
music Stephen McKeon
camera Alan Almond
cut Paul Garrick
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
The vortex of death

Successor  →
The cat in the dovecote

Mrs. McGinty is Dead (Original title: Mrs. McGinty's Dead ) is a long episode from the eleventh season of the British television series Agatha Christie's Poirot from 2008 by Ashley Pearce . It is the film adaptation of the novel Four Women and the Murder of Agatha Christie from 1952.

In contrast to the film adaptation with Margaret Rutherford from 1964, this episode was not rewritten to Miss Marple , instead Hercule Poirot has remained the detective according to the novel, who - as in the novel - receives the support of another Christie character, the crime novel -Writer Ariadne Oliver .

action

The widow Mrs. McGinty is killed by a blow to the head. The suspicion immediately falls on her lodger James Bentley, on whose clothes remnants of her blood and some of her hair are found. But Inspector Spence has doubts and orders Poirot to save the convicted man from the gallows. However, there are only two weeks left for this. Poirot discovers that Mrs. McGinty wrote a letter before she died describing that she recognized some photos in a newspaper. Poirot senses a motive. He and Spence can narrow the target group from initially four to two people. On the one hand, there is Lily Gamboll, who also committed a murder, on the other hand, Eva Kane, who apparently got her lover to murder his wife. In the parish where the murdered Mrs. McGinty lived, Poirot gives the impression that he has already found something out. This leads to an assassination attempt on him (he is pushed in front of a moving train). Poirot is almost happy about this, because now he knows that he is on the right track. He had previously confronted the suspects with two old photos. One of those present, Mrs. Upward, recognizes one of the people in the photos. The suspicions begin to intensify. But the following day, Mrs. Upward is also found murdered. Now Poirot has to go to extremes. He confronts the perpetrator with his past in front of the assembled community.

literature

  • Agatha Christie : Four women and a murder (Original title: Mrs. McGinty's Dead ). German by G. Martin. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-596-16990-9 .

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ^ Certificate of Release to Mrs. McGinty is dead . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , June 2013 (PDF; test number: 139 280 V).