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Kenneth Branagh’s Death on the Nile seems to forget Agatha Christie was a master of the murder mystery

  • Written by: Stuart Richards, Lecturer in Screen Studies, University of South Australia
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Kenneth Branagh’s new adaptation of Death on the Nile arrives with a lot of preconceived baggage. We know Agatha Christie. We know Poirot.

Christie’s influence on the murder mystery genre cannot be understated. Her stories feature heavily in the contemporary media landscape; reruns of various incarnations regularly appear in...

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