

No relation to the real life "ABC Murders" committed by South African serial killer Moses Sithole, The Alphabet Killer, or the real life Alphabet murders. Two video game adaptations, a 2009 Nintendo DS game and a 2016 multi-platform game, have been released. The novel received another adaptation in 2018 - a three-part BBC miniseries starring John Malkovich as Hercule Poirot. In 1992 the novel was adapted into an episode for the fourth season of Poirot tropes unique to this adaptation are listed there.

Hercule Poirot has received a letter after retirement, daring him to solve a case before a victim for every letter of the alphabet is killed (and it's not a Spoiler Title).įrank Tashlin directed a rather loose film adaptation titled The Alphabet Murders in 1965, with Tony Randall as Poirot and Robert Morley as Hastings. The ABC Murders is a 1936 mystery novel by Agatha Christie, often considered to be one of her best works.
