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BETWEEN THE COVERS LIVE!
Celebrating ‘The Queen of Crime’ Agatha Christie 6 OCTOBER
This October sees a brand-new live on-stage celebration of Agatha Christie, the bestselling novelist of all time, as Between The Covers Live! tours the UK, bringing together an extraordinary line-up of authors and performers to celebrate Christie’s enduring legacy 50 years after her death
The live stage show will feature bestselling author, actor and director Ben Miller (Death in Paradise) alongside international bestselling crime writer Lucy Foley (The Guest List), with additional special guests to be announced.
Funny, insightful and full of intrigue, Between The Covers Live! offers audiences a thrilling journey through Christie’s incomparable catalogue of mysteries, detectives and unforgettable characters. From Hercule Poirot to Miss Marple, the show will explore why Christie’s books remain as compelling and influential today as when they were first published.
The UK tour will celebrate Christie’s lasting influence on modern crime fiction, with Ben Miller and Lucy Foley discussing how her meticulous plotting, unforgettable characters and ingenious twists continue to inspire generations of writers, themselves included.
Ben Miller said: “Sparkling Cyanide was my eyes-wide introduction to Agatha Christie aged eleven – and the Hercule Poirot books are now my favourite thing to read with my daughter. I’ve tried to keep the flame alive with my own Golden Age thriller, A Very Dangerous Pursuit, steering, I hope, between the Scylla and Charybdis of Christie and Buchan. And it would be churlish, I think, not to recognise a huge debt to Christie in Death In Paradise, not least in the baffling way the lead detective gathers everyone together at the end of each story to make his suspicions known!
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