This story of the world's most famous detective writer, Agatha Christie, needs no introduction. Like the first part of the series, Detective Comics introducing Agatha Christie, "this is another story with the equally famous detective Poirot in the lead. During a trip along Rhine ..., oh no correction, a trip on the Nile, an extremely rich young woman is killed. It's up to Poirot to unmask the killer and in the Agatha Christie tradition there is no shortage of suspects.
This story has been filmed twice, once in 1978 with Peter Ustinov in the role of Poirot and once in 2007 in the television series, Agatha Christie's Poirot with the great David Suchet in the lead. The 1978 version could count on a star cast with Jane Birkin, Bette Davis, Mia Farrow, David Niven, Maggie Smith and Angela Lansbury. Although I enjoyed this film, I found Ustinov to act too comically. David Suchet does this in my eyes better and his Poirot is more like he’s in the books. Funny fact is that Angela Lansbury would take Miss Marple's role on not much later, in 1980, and again, later, she would play detective Jessica Fletcher in Murder she wrote. This series is written in the same way as Agatha Christie did in her early period.
But now I'm deviating. I must of course talk about the comic. François Rivière has a great book to make it a comic book. He had to take into account the fact that he had to tell the book in 46 pages. A whole task seems to me. He had to leave a lot of thing out no doubt, but all the necessary elements are in it, yet the story is good and logical and does not seem to be rushed or too compact.
The realistic drawings are made by Jean-François Miniac, aka Solidor. He not only devotes much attention to the different characters, but also to the beautiful decors.
All in all, a very nice album.
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Genre: Detective
Links:
Agatha Christie wikipedia
Solidor wikipedia
Solidor comiclopedia
Murder on orient express comicreview
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