I finished reading Mrs. McGinty’s Dead by Agatha Christie. There was a movie loosely based on the book called Murder Most Foul. I had seen the movie a long time ago and I watched it again recently.
Big Warning: there is some violence.
In this book, Hercule Poirot is asked by a sergeant to look into a case that he feels brought the wrong man to justice. The “wrong man” was already tried and sentenced, but the sergeant was convinced that James didn’t kill his landlady. So Poirot interviews James and is also convinced that he didn’t do it. So Poirot goes into the town where the crime occurred and looks for clues that were missed. He finds two important clues that the police missed. An ink bottle and a newspaper clipping. The newspaper clipping had photos which lead to another killing to happen. Poirot ends up finding out who the real killer is.
Differences between the movie and book:
- The movie has Miss Marple instead of Poirot
- In the movie, Miss Marple finds a clue of a theatre and she becomes a member of the play to find the killer. Poirot does find a clue about a theatre, but it wasn’t the focus of the book.
- One of the players of the theatre gets killed in the movie. In the book, the second murder was a playwright’s mother.
- In the book, the niece doesn’t get the house. In the movie it was the sister that gets the house.
I did like the book and the movie. Now I’m reading Dead Pets Don’t Lie by Joe Ardis and Donna Lee Howell. It’s a non-fiction book about pet food.