Agatha and the Midnight Murders (2020) – The third installment in Channel 5's series of fictional mysteries featuring crime writer Agatha Christie as the detective . Set during the London Blitz, a financially desperate Christie (Helen Baxendale) decides to sell a manuscript that kills off her most famous creation, Hercule Poirot, to a wealthy private buyer . She hires a bodyguard, Travis Pickford (Blake Harrison), and the transaction is set to take place at a London hotel . When an air raid forces the hotel guests into the cellar, tensions rise, the manuscript is stolen, and a series of murders unfold. Trapped with a killer, Christie must use her novelist's instincts to uncover the truth before more lives are lost .
🔹 Starring: Helen Baxendale (Cold Feet, Friends), Blake Harrison (The Inbetweeners), Alistair Petrie (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story), Jodie McNee, Gina Bramhill, Jacqueline Boatswain, Daniel Caltagirone, Thomas Chaanhing, Elizabeth Tan, Vanessa Grasse, Scott Chambers, Morgan Watkins
🔹 Director: Joe Stephenson
🔹 Writer: Tom Dalton
🔹 Genre: Crime, Mystery, Drama, Alternative History
🔹 Network: Channel 5 (UK), PBS (US)
🔹 Production Companies: Darlow Smithson Productions, Factual Fiction
🔹 Release Date: October 5, 2020 (UK) / May 25, 2021 (US)
🔹 Runtime: 93 minutes
🔹 Filmed: Malta (back-to-back with Agatha and the Curse of Ishtar)
💬 Why Watch?
✓ A unique "alternative history" take that imagines Agatha Christie as the protagonist of her own mystery .
✓ A classic "locked room" whodunit set in a claustrophobic air raid shelter .
✓ Part of the unofficial trilogy following Agatha and the Truth of Murder (2018) and Agatha and the Curse of Ishtar (2019) .
