Three Act Tragedy is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the United States by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1934 under the title Murder in Three Acts[1][2] and in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in January 1935 under Christie's original title.[3] The US edition retailed at $2.00[2] and the UK edition at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6)[3] (approximately equivalent to $46 in 2023 and approximately equivalent to £34 in 2023 respectively).
The book features Hercule Poirot, supported by his friend Mr Satterthwaite, and is the one book in which Satterthwaite collaborates with Poirot. Satterthwaite previously appeared in the stories featuring Harley Quin, in particular those collected in The Mysterious Mr Quin (1930). The novel was adapted for television twice, first in 1986 as Murder in Three Acts, and again in 2010 as Three Act Tragedy.
^John Cooper and B. A. Pyke. Detective Fiction – the collector's guide (Scholar Press, new edition 1994; ISBN 0-85967-991-8), pp. 82, 86
^ abAmerican Tribute to Agatha Christie
^ abChris Peers, Ralph Spurrier and Jamie Sturgeon, Collins Crime Club – A checklist of First Editions (Dragonby Press, ed. of March 1999), p. 15
little information regarding Poirot's childhood, only mentioning in ThreeActTragedy that he comes from a large family with little wealth, and has at least...
also published as Murder in the Calais Coach ThreeActTragedy (1935) also published as Murder in Three Acts Death in the Clouds (1935) also published...
The film is based on Christie's book ThreeActTragedy (1934), published in the US under the title Murder in Three Acts. It was Ustinov's third and last...
in RKO 281 (2000), The Cazalets (2001), Agatha Christie's Poirot: ThreeActTragedy (2010), and The Missing (2016). Her film roles include The Hole (2001)...
their true identities and that they were all connected to the Armstrong tragedy in some way, gathering them in the dining car for the second solution....
killer uses a "psychological" moment to his advantage, an allusion to ThreeActTragedy. In Chapter 21, Poirot refers to a case in which all the suspects...
characters are often seen as un-English (such as Oliver Manders in ThreeActTragedy), but they are rarely the culprits. In 2023, the Telegraph reported...
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directed by Ashley Pearce, who also directed Mrs McGinty's Dead and ThreeActTragedy. The cast included Christina Cole, Tim Curry, John Hannah, Elizabeth...
and the UK. 165 stories were published in the UK, with the omission of "Three Blind Mice." The 12 original short stories that were used for The Big Four...
himself as a friend of Lady Mary Lytton-Gore, a character known from ThreeActTragedy. This case is later referred to by Poirot many years later, in Elephants...
appearance, where he refers to the "Crow's nest business", i.e. the novel ThreeActTragedy. In "Murder in the Mews", Poirot refers to Sherlock Holmes and "the...
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(2007) Apparitions (2008) as Father Jacob Agatha Christie's Poirot ThreeActTragedy (2010) as Charles Cartwright Dambusters Declassified (2010) as presenter...
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and the same or different. The titular Blue Train appears again in ThreeActTragedy where Poirot boards the train with Sir Charles Cartwright to return...
also for her mother's murder (as she was at Overcliffe on the day of the tragedy and overheard General Ravenscroft make his plans) by trying to kill both...
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