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Article: How will Agatha Christie's family drag her legacy into the 21st century? It's a mystery ...
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- The Sunday Herald
- Article date:
- December 10, 2000
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Listen. Can you hear it? That strange low buzz, just perceptible
beneath the excited hum of a world waiting for curtain-up on the
20,000th showing of The Mousetrap: the longest-running murder
mystery saga of all time. There it goes again. Pip-pip, pip-pip, pip-
pip: Hercule Poirot's little grey cells, sparking like an electrical
current. Clickety-clack, clickety-clack, clickety-clack: Miss
Marple's knitting needles, power-purling into the night.
Strange forces must be abroad, to have stirred the investigative
instincts of Agatha Christie's most famous sleuths, a quarter
century after their creator's demise. Somewhere, plots are being
hatched, foul deeds committed ... a mystery lies waiting ...