![]() ![]() ![]() 2001 saw the first radio adaptation which was transmitted on BBC Radio 4 and starred June Whitfield. It was then adapted again in 2006, this time by ITV, for their series Marple which starred Geraldine McEwan. Sleeping Murder was first adapted for television in 1987 as part of the Miss Marple series by the BBC, starring Joan Hickson as Miss Marple. Screenwriter: Stephen Churchett (Novel: Agatha Christie) Music: Dominik Scherrer Cinematography: Alan Almond Producer: Co-production United Kingdom. In An Autobiography Christie explains that she ‘had written an extra two books during the first years of the war’ and ‘those two books, when written, were put in the vaults of a bank.’ But in Agatha Christie’s Secret Notebooks, John Curran argues that it was written much later. There is much discussion around when the story was first written. Originally it has been thought that the story was written in the early 1940s, although this has been debated by Christie expert John Curran in his book Agatha Christie’s Secret Notebook in which he discovers that Christie began writing the novel much later. A puzzle that is tortuous, surprising and finally satisfying. ![]()
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