The best-selling mystery novel of all time, apparently. A rather hoary old stage chestnut is now brought to the Boxing Day table with its revised PC title, but most of its other thirties prejudices intact. A group of disparates are summoned to 'Soldier Island' off the Devon coast for a rendezvous billed as a dinner party. In the comfortable but eerily deserted environs of the island's hotel, they hear a recorded broadcast accusing them all of committing (separate) murders. By the end of the hour there were eight of the ten remaining alive.
Just about as perfect a holiday drama as you could wish for, following in the wake of this year's successful play adaptations of classics. Rather darker somehow than the Poirots or Marples, and went down very well with a tipple.
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