Yahoo News ABC Murders writer will adapt more Agatha Christie stories for BBC
The ABC Murders writer Sarah Phelps has revealed that she has plans to adapt more of Agatha Christie's stories for the BBC.
The screenwriter brought us her adaptation of the classic novel, The ABC Murders, which featured John Malkovich as the retired detective Hercule Poirot, as well as Rupert Grint, Skins' Freya Mavor, Twin Peaks' Eamon Farren and Kevin McNally.
Phelps helmed the previous BBC Christie dramas And Then There Were None, The Witness for the Prosecution and Ordeal by Innocence.
Now, next on her list is to bring The Pale Horse, another detective fiction from Christie's original novels.
Speaking to Radio Times, Phelps said: "When I was working on And Then There Were None [in 2015], there was a little voice in my head saying that I could write a quintet and cover 50 years of the tumultuous blood-soaked 20th century within the genre of the murder mystery.
"Having now done the 1920s, the beginning and end of the '30s, as well as the 1950s, the next one is going to be set in the 1960s."
The Pale Horse follows the story of its main character Mark Easterbrook who investigates the murder of a Catholic priest who's been given a confession from a dying woman, along with a very dark secret.
Meanwhile, the Beeb has already commissioned another Agatha Christie tale for this year, with Death Comes as the End set to be another three-part drama for 2019.
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