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acronMan 23 Feb 09 at 9:06 a.m. GMT

Has anyone ever compared the books to the dramatizations? I started with "The Moving Finger" and "The Body in the Library"

it's funny how many differences there are between the 2 dramatizations alone.

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Tommy_A_Jones 01 Apr 09 at 2:26 p.m. GMT

I hadn't thought of that but now you mention it you are right, the only clues I could think of were silly ones like;

1. Edward Fox and the Widower were connected sexually with the victim  and the character played by Art Malik wass arrested so by process of elimination it had to be who the Murderer was.  

2. Knowing who wrote oit made the Motive and the Identity of the Murderer obvious.  

squatty 31 Mar 09 at 7:47 p.m. GMT

I noticed that too Winnebago. My problem with that writer isn't the sex but that the plots are incomprehensible. Episode One of Lewis had no clues that the viewer could pick up on and when that happens, I always feel cheated come the denoument.

Tommy_A_Jones 31 Mar 09 at 3:21 p.m. GMT

I hate to say it whodunnit but I agree with byou 'Marple' should be got rid of and 'Lewis' kept, Did you see the 1st episode of 'Lewis' this year it was written by the bloke who destroyed 'Cards On The Table' I think tht chap must have a thing about sex, If you haven't seen it watch it and you will see what I mean.

whodunnit 31 Mar 09 at 2:30 p.m. GMT

None of the ITV series 'Marple' have ever done any justice to the books. The endings have been changed, Miss Marple put in non Marple stories, extra characters written in for no apparent reason, truck loads of gay people made to be the perpetrators - all boosting the ego of the re-writers who probably think they can do a better job than Agatha!! ITV are on about cutting Lewis as it's too expensive to produce but I think they should give Marple the chop instead as Lewis is a far superior series - and I'm a dyed in the wool Christie fan! As for Chorion suggesting that Agatha Christie would approve of these re-writes, then they should dig into her memoirs a bit deeper and they'll find that she couldn't abide it when her books were changed, Murder at the Gallop / Ahoy being two, MGM productions amongst others and she distanced herself accordingly. Rosalind Hicks, her daughter was also of the same mindset and fiercely protective of her mother's work. So lets hope the message gets across and we have some faithful to the book productions from now on, in the superior vein and quality of the BBC Joan Hickson series.

Tommy_A_Jones 21 Mar 09 at 3:34 p.m. GMT

I thought 'The Moving Finger was much better than either of the Adaptations I have seen, as a result of the Joan Hickson version I wasn't looking forward to reading the book but when I got round tyo reading it I loved it, Neither BBC or ITV did the book justice in my view but with 'Body In The Library' I liked the book alot and the BBC version wasn't better or worse but ITV spoilt their version with the ending, up till then I liked it alot especially David Walliams who I am not a fan of when he is doing Comedy but I thought he was great in 'Body In The Library'