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Murder by the Book (1986) Plot Summary Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1986 · 51 mins · English
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- Directed by
- Lawrence Gordon Clark
- Starring
- Michael Aldridge, Ian Holm, Richard Wilson, Peggy Ashcroft, Dawn Archibald, John Atkinson
Christie’s agents push her to publish a manuscript she wrote 35 years earlier, in which she kills off her famed detective. She jokes the ‘wretched little man’ has always been a troublemaker compared with Miss Marple. Then Hercule Poirot shows up at her door, and author and her creation engage in a cat‑and‑mouse battle for manuscript and their lives.
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