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On December 3rd 1926, Agatha Christie went missing for eleven days, causing a hunt that spanned nationwide. She was found, using a different name, 200 miles from her home in Harrogate, Yorkshire. Once it was clarified that she was physically unharmed, the media turned against her. Despite Christie’s attempts at honesty and vulnerability – telling the Daily Mail in an interview after the fact that the cause of the sudden disappearance was due to her fragile mental health – the media continuously clung to the more palatable angle that the ‘murder mystery novelist’ had framed her own demise to promote her books, or to expose her cheating husband. Media outlets focused on deciphering hidden meaning from the ‘clues’ of her disappearance, such as the abandoning of her car the day after she was declared missing. The coverage exposes how dramatic events were reported with the chief goal of keeping the reader closely connected to the story, for that is exactly what Christie’s disappearance swiftly became; a story to tell.

The puzzling and quizzical quality that underpins Agatha Christie’s stories have inevitably lead to multiple creative adaptations of her work to the big screen. As is to be expected, TV series and films often deviate from their source material for a multitude of different stylistic, political, or metaphorical reasons. A prime example of this can be seen in the 2017 adaptation of Christie’s novel, Crooked House, originally published in 1949. The novel is set in the autumn of 1947, while the film chose to shift the time frame to the late 1950s. This allowed the socioeconomic climate of the Cold War to influence the film’s physical appearance and its overall tone, which is incorporated in the film’s choice of vehicles.