![]() "Secret of Chimneys" is pure, old-fashioned Agatha Christie goodness. She's usually dragged in as a guest at a party, or as a close friend of one of the real lead characters and then gradually steps into the shoes the original novel's sleuth. The most obvious change in many of the individual episodes, including here in "Secret of the Chimneys", is the inclusion of Miss Marple as the protagonist, simply because she wasn't the heroine in Christie's original novels. ![]() And that is definitely the case in ALL episodes of the series. What matters mostly, to me at least, is that the adaptations remain respectful to the style, settings and storytelling of Christie's original creations. ![]() Please let me assure you - I am an obsessive Agatha Christie admirer, and I'm perfectly okay with the fact that the series' writers took the liberty to make drastic changes to plot, characters and denouements. It's always "True Agatha Christie lovers will hate it" this, and "the original Christie novel ruined" that. ![]() ![]() Ah, the eternally recurring and inevitably clichéd pieces of criticism that one encounters in almost every single review of every single instalment in the "Agatha Christie's Marple" series. ![]()
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