![]() ![]() However, the relationship of the queen of crime fiction with cricket ran much deeper. The producers were way off the target – not only did Verity never veer from his orthodox finger spin, neither did Christie herself ever emulate the lesser of her contemporary crime fiction writers to project a china man as the mysterious villain.ĭorothy L Sayers featured cricket majorly in one of her Peter Wimsey novels – Murder must Advertise.Christie never did the same. ![]() The only gaffe there is that Poirot says, with characteristic vehemence, that Verity possessed a chinaman. In the television episode of Agatha Christie’s Poirot featuring the story, the Belgian detective explains the mysteries of left arm spin to a puzzled Hastings after the newspapers bring forth the news that Hedley Verity has routed the Australians with 15 wickets on a rain affected Lord’s pitch. I know not of any other game where even the players are unsure of the rules,” says Hercule Poirot in Four and Twenty Blackbirds. ![]()
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