What happened when Marple met Bond?
Charlie Higson reveals what happened when he wrote two of his favourite sleuths into A Caribbean Mystery
"So when news leaked out that The Fast Show’s Charlie Higson was adapting a Miss Marple story – A Caribbean Mystery – adding zombies and James Bond, Agatha Christie fans must have feared the worst.
So it’s reassuring to hear Higson is a true Miss Marple fan. “You have to keep within the tradition and the style of the rest of the series,” he says. “That was part of the appeal of it for me. I can’t suddenly set it in the present day...” He trails off.
“Although that being said, the next cycle of Marple mysteries, as inevitably there will be, might take a very different tack.”
But zombies? And James Bond? Higson smiles a very Hercule Poirot smile."
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