Little Miss Marple

On the BBC website Emma Saunders has written that

In a first for Agatha Christie, four of the crime novelist’s famous mysteries are being adapted for children – with the help of the Mr Men and Little Misses.

The illustrated books, aimed at pre-school and primary age children, will feature Christie detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple working alongside Roger Hargreaves’s much-loved children’s characters.

Two of the books will be published on Thursday – Little Miss Marple: Muddle at the Vicarage and Mr Poirot: Mischief on the Nile – with two more to follow in February.

James Prichard, Agatha Christie’s great grandson, said it was a “dream collaboration”.

You may accurately quote me as saying, “The first person to give me one of these for Christmas will live to regret it”.