Cover art for the 1976 Fontana reprint of Hallowe’en Party (1969) by Agatha Christie. Cover artwork by Tom Adams.
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Whitehaven Mansions
aka Florin Court, Charterhouse Square, London, UK. is an Art Deco building often used for the filming of Agatha Christie’s “Poirot” (1989-2013). The building itself was completed in 1936, and has 120 apartments on 9 floors, amenities include a swimming pool, a spa, a sauna, a gym, a small library, a laundry room and a garage. The building was refurbished in the 1980s.
Death on the Nile, 1951
Cover for Death on the Nile (1937), published by Avon, 1951
And Then There Were None, 1945
Seven guests, one newly hired secretary and two house servants find themselves stranded and alone in a mansion on a remote island at the invitation of “U.N. Owen.”
After dinner, one of the servants plays a record and the voice on it accuses each of murder. One by one they end up dead, and after each death a ceramic Indian figurine is found broken off of the peculiar table display in the dining room. Early on they realize the deaths are relatable to an old minstrel song called “Ten Little Indians” (lyrics below). Can they find the killer before there are none? Based off of the novel by Agatha Christie. Continue reading “And Then There Were None, 1945”
The Body in the Library, 1952
The Body in the Library (Dutch edition) by Agatha Christie, 1952, cover by Rein van Looy (1910-1994)
