Toni Collette and Kit Harington are teaming up for a new adaptation of Agatha Christie‘s The Murder At The Vicarage. The actors will lead Audible Original’s production of the classic mystery novel which will be released on August 13.
Alongside Collette and Harington the cast also includes Normal People‘s Eliot Salt, Top Boy‘s Jasmine Jobson and Outnumbered‘s Hugh Dennis.
Calam Lynch, Katy Wix, Lolly Adefope, Billy Postlethwaite, Leo Reich and Vicki Pepperdine also star.
The Murder at the Vicarage was the first Christie novel to featured the now iconic amateur detective Miss Marple.
The synopsis (via Deadline) reads: “In the rural idyll of St Mary Mead, a murder has taken place. The despised Colonel Protheroe is found dead in the vicarage study by Reverend Leonard Clement (Harington). Though the Colonel had many enemies, the violence of his death shocks the sleepy village and starts the tongues of the local gossips wagging.
“The first suspects are the Colonel’s beautiful young wife, Anne, and her purported lover, handsome artist Lawrence Redding. But St Mary Mead is full of secrets, and the real killer could be anyone. Was it Protheroe’s daughter, Lettice, set to inherit a fortune? Then there’s Dr Stone, an archaeologist whose story isn’t adding up, and Mrs Lestrange, a woman no one seems to know anything about.
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“Even the Vicar’s own wife could be a suspect,” the synopsis adds. “Miss Marple (Collette) is the only person perceptive enough to see through the façade of polite society — and once she turns her attention to someone, their true nature is fully exposed.”
The adaptation has been written by Getting On‘s Vicki Pepperdine and features an original score by Wasia Project.
Aurelie de Troyer, Head of Audible Content, International, said of the project: “Toni Collette is phenomenal as Christie’s beloved detective, capturing both her sharp intellect and her understanding of human nature. This is a fresh take on a classic mystery that honours Christie’s genius whilst creating something new and exciting for audio.”
Meanwhile, Christie fans will be excited to know that the BBC is working on a new Hercule Poirot series.
Edward Bluemel will take on the role of the legendary Belgium detective in Hercule. It will follow the sleuth’s early cases and promises to be “an intimate study of Hercule the man and an epic portrait of Britain between the wars”.
