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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2005-04-18 12:04 pm

Agatha Christie's lesbian characters

In a recent discussion about the new adaptations of the Miss Marple stories, I commented that I didn't recall the original stories having as many lesbians as the TV movies do, where "as many" = "any"*. The person I was chatting to suggested that perhaps they were there but as a young lad of 10 or so, I did not understand the significance of, eg, two spinster ladies living together. Can anyone who has actually read the books recently tell me if the movies have introduced a new element or if I just missed something when i read them 30 years ago?


* Or as many sword fights as the Margaret Rutherford version of Miss Marple.

Agatha Christie's lesbian characters

(Anonymous) 2017-08-23 03:45 am (UTC)(link)
A Murder is Announced has lesbian characters. Mr. Satterthwaite in many books is most probably gay; there are other possibly gay characters, Mr. Pye in The Moving Finger, and Christopher Wren in the short story Three Blind Mice. There are others as well.