Poirot and Me (47 page)

Index

The ABC Murders
128–9
,
145–6

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,

139

The Adventure of the Clapham Cook
44–50,
52–5,
64
,

68

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

After the Funeral
224–5,
227–8

Agatha Christie: Poirot
204,
221

Agran, Linda
72

Agutter, Jenny
233

Albee, Edward
176,
177

see also Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Alibi
187–8

All My Sons
245,
267

Allingham, Margery
276

Amadeus
22
,
183–4,
185,
190–1

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,

252

Art Deco style
61
,
194,
230,
231

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

Barker, Ronnie
39
,
41

Barnes, Clive
191

Bate, Anthony
83

Bateman, Geoffrey
57

BBC
3
,
13
,
15,
18,
31,
42,
50
,
80,
87,
115,
121
,
129
,

157,
166–7,
197,
198,
206

Bennett, Edward
46,
53,
54,
58
,
164

Bergman, Ingrid
17

Berry, Halle
175

The Big Four
230,
274–6

Biggers, Earl Derr
84

Billington, Michael
155,
184,
268

Bingo
71
,
109

Blood Will Tell
240

Blott on the Landscape
13,
15
,
68
,
129
,
179,
180

Blunt, Emily
216

Bogarde, Dirk
142

Bond, Edward
71

Bond, Samantha
85,
197

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

budgets
50
,
83,
207,
266

Bullmore, Amelia
256

Burden, Suzanne
62

Burgh Island Hotel
194

Burke, David
253

Burke, Tom
253

Burr, Raymond
22

Burton, Richard
176

Calder-Marshall, Anna
225,
253

Callow, Simon
183,
277

Campbell, Cheryl
121,
200,
246

Capaldi, Peter
111,
112

capital punishment
257–8

The Capture of Cerberus
277

Cards on the Table
228–9,
231–2

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

Chancellor, Anna
142,
143

character acting
20–2,
29
,
68,
82,
108

Charles, Prince of Wales
203

Charlie Chan mysteries
83–4

Chastain, Jessica
262

The Chocolate Box
141–3,
144

Chopin, Frederic
3–4

Chorion
203

Christie, Agatha

alter ego see Oliver, Ariadne

best-selling novelist
24

CBE award
278

death of
25

divorce
188
,
223

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, Archibald
93,
188,
223

Christie, Campbell
274

Cilento, Diane
17

Clarke, Warren
122

class system, English
64,
89–90

Clegg, Tom
192

Clement, Dick
238–9

The Clocks
253–4,
267

Coady, Matthew
271

cold case investigation
207,
273

Cole, Stephanie
115–16

Complicit 251–2

Connery, Sean
17
,
42

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

Critics’ Circle Award
178,
191

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
,

263,
265,
269–72
,
273

Curtis, Tony
254

Cusack, Niamh
64

Cusack, Sinéad
279

Davies, Andrew
198

Davies, Howard
176
,
267

de la Tour, Frances
216

Dead Man’s Folly
278–81,
284–90

Dead Man’s Mirror
143

Dear, Nick
214
,
231–2,
241
,
254,
272,
279

Death in the Clouds
129–31,
157

Death on the Nile
206
,
214–16
,
220–1
,
252,
257,
271,

277

denouments
59–60,
64
,
79,
80,
83,
85
,
101,
118,
119,

126,
226–7

Dermot Walsh, Elizabeth
210

Devenish, Ross
92,
98,
99,
131–2

Dial M for Murder
180

Digby, Anne-Marie
6

The Disappearance of Mr Davenheim
86,
87

Doctor Who
2
,
111
,
132,
243

Dodd, Ken
201

Donaldson, Roger
239

Double Clue
113–14,
277

Double Sin
82
,
84,
85

Douglas, Michael
180,
181,
202

Doyle, Arthur Conan
27

see also Sherlock Holmes stories

Dracula
104

Draper, Ruth
189

The Dream
64,
65

Dreyfuss, Richard
251

Driver, Minnie
166

Drury, David
121

du Maurier, Gerald
188
,
255

Dumb Witness
164–5,
173

Dunbar, Adrian
166

Duncan, Lindsay
223,
224

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

Eccleston, Christopher
132,
189

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

Elizabeth, the Queen Mother
118,
203

Elliott, Nick
72,
127,
150,
179

Elyot, Kevin
3,
206,
207,
214
,
271