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This makes no sense to me. There are full-cast audio dramatizations of nearly every every Poirot novel. Yet the one Poirot story that Christie actually wrote as a play is only available as audiobooks of the Charles Osborne novelization. What gives?

I've tried reading and listening to the novelization, but I find the adaptation very clunky. (Stage directions do not work as narration!) I suspect I would enjoy it more if actually performed. Given audiences' continued appetite for Poirot, I cannot understand why the estate hasn't ensured a proper modern adaptation for TV, film or audio drama.

So I'm not sure if I'm just too cynical and modern but I'm rereading Sparkling Cyanide now.

In the first chapter she just keeps hitting SO HARD that Rosemary was run down and depressed after a bout of influenza. And I know some of it is to explain why the characters all accepted that Rosemary committed suicide, with varying degrees of belief. But it just seems so thin. And Christie keeps emphasizing, over and over, that Rosemary was still run down even after this supposed bout of "flu" had run its course.

Does anyone else think Christie could have actually been hinting that Rosemary was pregnant with Stephen's child, and her "influenza" was morning sickness and her "depression" was because she knew Stephen was tired of her?

I just finished the novel, and it’s easily one of my top favourites.
What’s not to love?

Poirot and Hastings’ fun interactions? Hastings pushing back against Poirot multiple times? The interesting mystery and the thriller elements?😍

The story is also incredibly well written and tightly connected. Every detail feels like it has a purpose, and all the different pieces of the mystery slowly come together in such a satisfying way.

As title says

edit: been getting a few comments treating me like someone who hasn’t even read a single book by Christie, to clarify, I’ve read almost all of them.

I‘m hoping someone can help me out here. When Michael Blakewell’s radio adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express aired, between 1992 and 1993, it was originally broadcasted in five parts with intro recaps from the character of Monsieur Bouc. Does anyone know which specific CD issue features the complete broadcast with the intros? Or is the five-part version only available on the BBC’s website now?