Agatha Christie, She Watched Ep37 “Les meurtes ABC” (2009) Review

Warning: Spoiler-heavy review! This week, we’re talking about silk stockings, drunken detectives, feuding families, and burning bums. Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press discuss “Les meurtes ABC,” the French television adaptation of “The ABC Murders” in the series “Les Petits Meurtres d'Agatha Christie.”

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Chapters

0:00 Introduction

1:12 What is “The Little Murders of Agatha Christie?”

2:19 About the first season

7:32 Charming bits of male nudity

8:53 Starting at the beginning of the episode

11:54 Alexander Bonaparte Cust character

13:46 The second murder

15:19 The police commissioner calls in Duval

18:49 Meet the Calvez family

21:00 The murder investigation

22:56 Duval receives an ABC letter

25:36 Larosiere back on the case

26:43 Larosiere gathers everyone for The Poirot

35:22 Agatha Christie as police procedural

36:05 Larosiere’s cute mannerisms