Early suspicions of foul play are quickly proved correct he died of eserine poisoning, an unknown party placing his eyedrops in one of his insulin vials.
Two years later, his reunion with Sophia is preceded by the death notice of her grandfather, Aristide Leonides. As his Love Epiphany does not occur until he is called east, they put off their engagement until both have returned to England. While in Cairo during World War II, narrator Charles Hayward meets and falls in love with Sophia Leonides. Hayward’s unresolved feelings for beautiful Sophia de Haviland (Martini), the favourite grandchild of the murdered man, was the pivot round which the tangled plot spun, when she asked him to investigate whether one of her own family might have done the dastardly deed." One brother, one sister, a mother, a father, an uncle, an aunt by marriage, a grandfather, a great aunt and a step grandmother."Ĭrooked House is a murder mystery by Agatha Christie, published in 1949.
It also featured one of her more emotionally vulnerable heroes in debonair young Charles Hayward (Irons), an erstwhile junior diplomat turned private detective. And it wasn’t hard to see why – the labyrinthine storyline revolving around the poisoning of a wealthy, domineering patriarch was pure Christie: a rambling country house packed with as many likely suspects as red herrings. Christie herself described it as “one of my own special favourites”. Glenn Close, Gillian Anderson, Christina Hendricks… not to mention the glamorous pair taking the principle roles, Max Irons and Stefanie Martini.Ĭlearly, there was a lot of money behind this elegant production that was adapted (with Julian Fellowes heading up the writing team) for the first time as a standalone mystery.
We’re used to Christie mysteries being impressively cast but this was, by any standards, a star-studded affair. Fans disappointed by the BBC’s shelving of its big festive Agatha Christie offering will have found plenty of consolation in Channel 5’s screening of a terrific new adaptation Crooked House before it goes into cinemas early next year.
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