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LucyE 15 May 12 3:44 p.m. GMT

At least in the US, you don't need to own an ebook reader. You can download a free Kindle reader application and buy the Poirot version from you know where, then read the story on your PC.

GKCfan 13 May 12 6:58 p.m. GMT

Prior to this, the Poirot version of "The Regatta Mystery" has only been published in the most recent edition of Hercule Poirot: The Complete Short Stories in the US.

NightRayDuck 12 May 12 6:09 p.m. GMT

"Poirot and the Regatta Mystery" seems to be available in ebook in the US. I am not familiar with ebook formats, so I am just posting this as a heads-up. If you've been looking for the Poirot version of the short story "The Regatta Mystery" and you have an ebook reader, you might be able to find and purchase it. :-)

jnixon727 08 May 12 2:12 p.m. GMT

Producer Zev Buffman, who was most recently represented on Broadway as a co-producer of Blithe Spirit starring Angela Lansbury, will produce a national tour of The Agatha Christie BBC Murders.

The Agatha Christie BBC Murders comprises four lost Agatha Christie radio plays: "Butter in a Lordly Dish," "Three Blind Mice" (a short radio play on which The Mousetrap was based), "Personal Call" and "Yellow Iris"; the latter features seven musical numbers penned by Tony winner Rupert Holmes. These radio plays debuted at the 2009 International Mystery Writers' Festival in Owensboro, KY.

"In August of last year," Buffman told Playbill.com, "we cobbled together [these] four lost Agatha Christie BBC Radio plays. We found them literally in archives at the BBC Museum. . . . We dusted them up, got the rights to do them, and then did not do them as radio plays. We did them in combination — using radio techniques but deploying full proscenium theatre staging, blocking, costumes, sets. . . . It was an enormous success. We had a lot of people from New York, including tour bookers, colleagues and producers."

"In the play," Buffman explained, "there's an added character. . . . With permission from the Agatha Christie Estate, we have written the largest role of all as Agatha Christie herself, who narrates and tells us the history of each piece, why she wrote it, what motivated her, when she wrote it and her thoughts about it. That character begins to also play some parts in the plays as we go on from one to another to another — trying to really bring life to the piece by tying all four one-act plays together with a narrator/storyteller, who is actually using authorized, right-out-of-her-biography words, from the mouth of Agatha Christie. It really cemented the piece beautifully."

Email; THEBBCMURDERS@rutheckerdhall.net

Saulisa 08 May 12 12:46 a.m. GMT

Thanks, Ray. I'm gonna Netflix the Hayes shows -- and also the McKenzie ones. Things said in the forum make me think I would enjoy her more than the first two BBC Marples.

NightRayDuck 07 May 12 5:20 p.m. GMT

I think you'll enjoy the Marple series with Helen Hayes. I was too young to notice any Victorian once-over, but Helen Hayes definitely seemed to be the friendly Aunt Jane.

Saulisa 06 May 12 8:36 a.m. GMT

Okay, I see that I am, after all and as suspected, a complete idiot. Found the forums. Duh.