Authors: David Suchet,Geoffrey Wansell
Tags: #Biography & Autobiography, #Entertainment & Performing Arts
Index
Abraham, F. Murray
183
acting career, uncertainty of
122–3
adaptations, reactions of fans to
140
The Adventure of Johnnie Waverly
57–8
The Adventure of the Cheap Flat
84,
85
,
197
The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding
114
,
116,
The Adventure of the Clapham Cook
44–50,
52–5,
64
,
The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb
137–8,
148
The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman
140
The Adventure of the Royal Ruby
115–16,
116
,
118
The Adventure of the Western Star
85–6
The Affair at the Victory Ball
118–19
Agatha Christie: Poirot
204,
221
Agran, Linda
72
Agutter, Jenny
233
see also Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Alibi
187–8
Allingham, Margery
276
American audiences
106,
125–6
,
127,
145–6
Andrews, Guy
223,
232
,
245
,
246
,
276–7
Appointment with Death
240,
241
,
245–6
,
247,
251,
Arts & Entertainment network
185,
192
,
203
Atkins, Eileen
261
Bacall, Lauren
17
Baeza, Paloma
200
The Bank Job
238–9
Barber, Frances
82
Barber-Fleming, Peter
139
Barnes, Clive
191
Bate, Anthony
83
Bateman, Geoffrey
57
BBC
3
,
13
,
15,
18,
31,
42,
50
,
80,
87,
115,
121
,
129
,
Bennett, Edward
46,
53,
54,
58
,
164
Bergman, Ingrid
17
Berry, Halle
175
Biggers, Earl Derr
84
Billington, Michael
155,
184,
268
Blood Will Tell
240
Blott on the Landscape
13,
15
,
68
,
129
,
179,
180
Blunt, Emily
216
Bogarde, Dirk
142
Bond, Edward
71
Bonham Carter, Helena
202
Bonneville, Hugh
262
Bowen, Elizabeth
233
Bowles, Peter
244
Boyle, Zoe
247
Brady, Orla
277
Brantley, Ben
191
Brayfield, Celia
105
Britton, Tony
200
Bruce, Nigel
48
Brydon, Rob
200
Buck, Michele
204,
205,
206,
226,
230
,
243,
289–90
Bullmore, Amelia
256
Burden, Suzanne
62
Burgh Island Hotel
194
Burke, David
253
Burke, Tom
253
Burr, Raymond
22
Burton, Richard
176
capital punishment
257–8
The Capture of Cerberus
277
Carlyle, Robert
235
Carman, Dominic
201
Carman, Frances
201
Carman, George
201
The Case of the Missing Will
140
Cat Among the Pigeons
242–4,
246,
250
Catchpole, Charlie
220
Catlin, Marcus
289
Chamberlain, Richard
22
character acting
20–2,
29
,
68,
82,
108
Charles, Prince of Wales
203
Charlie Chan mysteries
83–4
Chastain, Jessica
262
Chopin, Frederic
3–4
Chorion
203
Christie, Agatha
alter ego see Oliver, Ariadne
best-selling novelist
24
CBE award
278
death of
25
early life
92–3
eleven-day disappearance
222
familiar plot devices
100,
129
,
143,
144,
193
,
261
first describes Poirot
99
leaves clues in plain sight
63
,
80,
99–100
marries Archibald Christie
93
marries Max Mallowan
188
plot repetitions
80
‘tires’ of Poirot
24,
229
,
240–1,
270
wartime nursing experiences
93
writes first Poirot story
93–4
writes last Poirot story
272
Christie, Campbell
274
Cilento, Diane
17
Clarke, Warren
122
Clegg, Tom
192
Clement, Dick
238–9
Coady, Matthew
271
cold case investigation
207,
273
Cole, Stephanie
115–16
Complicit 251–2
Coren, Alan
70
The Cornish Mystery
84
Courtenay, Tom
235
Craig, Bill
139
Crane, Roger
239
Cranham, Kenneth
197
critical reception of Poirot productions
68,
69–70
,
103–4
,
105,
106,
148,
173,
219–20
,
221,
250
Cruel Train
166–7
Crutchley, Rosalie
142–3
The Curious Disappearance of the Opalsen Pearls
143
Curry, Tim
245–6
Curtain: Poirot’s Final Case
1–9
,
12,
25,
191,
206
,
241
,
Curtis, Tony
254
Cusack, Niamh
64
Cusack, Sinéad
279
Davies, Andrew
198
de la Tour, Frances
216
Dead Man’s Mirror
143
Dear, Nick
214
,
231–2,
241
,
254,
272,
279
Death on the Nile
206
,
214–16
,
220–1
,
252,
257,
271,
denouments
59–60,
64
,
79,
80,
83,
85
,
101,
118,
119,
Dermot Walsh, Elizabeth
210
Dial M for Murder
180
Digby, Anne-Marie
6
The Disappearance of Mr Davenheim
86,
87
Dodd, Ken
201
Donaldson, Roger
239
Doyle, Arthur Conan
27
see also Sherlock Holmes stories
Dracula
104
Draper, Ruth
189
Dreyfuss, Richard
251
Driver, Minnie
166
Drury, David
121
Dunbar, Adrian
166
Eastman, Brian
15,
16,
17–18
,
19,
26,
28,
33
,
34
,
36,
37
,
54,
61,
63,
65,
67–8,
72,
73
,
118,
127,
130,
157,
159,
161,
163,
184
,
185
,
186
,
203–4
,
205–6
,
243
Edinburgh, Prince Philip, Duke of
116–17
,
118
Edwardian grandeur
100
Edwardian manners
37
Elephants Can Remember
25,
266
,
272–3
Elizabeth II, Queen
116,
203
,
278