The Pale Horse instead features a standalone detective, Mark Easterbrook, searching for answers to the mystery of a woman who died with a list of names hidden in her shoe.
But it still took Hercule Poirot and made him far older than fans were used to seeing.
Murders featured any of Christie's famous figure. Along with And Then There Were None, her list also include the detectiveless The Witness for the Prosecution and Ordeal By Innocence. It's one of only 12 of her stories that don't feature any of her iconic detective characters. The latest installment is The Pale Horse, one of Christie's later works from the 1960s. Rowling's The Casual Vacancy, has been churning out new versions of Christie's mysteries since 2015's And Then There Were None. Screenwriter Sarah Phelps is back again with yet another Agatha Christie adaptation for the BBC. In The Pale Horse he plays antiques dealer Easterbrook – and it’s his first Christie drama.The forthcoming BBC adaptation of Agatha Christie's The Pale Horse has a virtual murderer's row of talent coming aboard. It’s not much of an investment if you’re already a bit wrinkly.” “I’m way too long in the tooth! Certainly for my first Bond. “I never really imagined I was Bond material,” he insists. Wouldn’t he have made a great one? Might he not, still? The Pale Horse is a rare exception.īond, for example. Meeting to discuss The Pale Horse, he laughs: “I had the kind of fame from when I did my first period drama that if I wanted to go to an antiques shop or a tearoom it would be like Iggy Pop had walked in!”īut although he has been a recognisable face for decades now, the lead roles haven’t rolled in. The actor, 52, who became a pin-up in the 90s in Middlemarch, and more recently in Victoria as Lord Melbourne, is impeccably modest but admits he has a fan club. His face all angles, as if chiselled from polished mahogany, Rufus Sewell in person is every bit as dark and brooding as fans would wish.
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