If you have watched David Suchet's career as the actor who plays Hercule Poirot, you will no doubt enjoy this behind the scenes documentary on the writer Agatha Chrisitie, creator of of the eccentric Belgian detective. David Suchet meets Christie's grandson and looks at some of the memorabilia of Agatha Christie's life. Since she enabled what was a good portion of his acting career, Suchet is fascinated by Christie and so was I as a viewer of the many movies he has made, some 70 in all as the famous detective. The documentary gives us the full biography of Christie, who grew up on the seaside in the south of England, where many of her novels are located. We find out about her vivid imagination and her love of the sea. We also see entries in her journals and photos from her earliest childhood. Her first marriage ended in divorce from the man she loved and who was with her for her initial success. When she found out that her husband wanted to leave her, Agatha completely lost it and went missing. This led to a massive search which turned up her missing car and more time searching until eventually she was spotted in a rural hotel. The mystery of what happened to Agatha Christie was a national news story that went on for some time and in fact, hope had begun to fade. As pointed out in the documentary, she never revealed what happened but it is thought to be a breakdown when her world was suddenly turned upside down. She did recover of course and married an archaeologist who took her to the Middle East on his travels, where she discovered new settings for her novels. Her writing continued and was prolific for over five decades and we see the fame that accompanied her. This included her best selling novels and her stage plays with the long-running The Mousetrap, the most famous. She spent time during the first war as a nurse and working in a pharmacy became familiar with poisons, which she used in her novels as her prime method for murder. Her life was quite happy through her childhood and adult life, although she did suffer the loss of her beloved father at ten and of course, the failure of her first marriage. I always admired Christie and felt she had a knack for writing that appealed to a mass audience and could capture the imagination of a broad public. This was confirmed in the show which gives a wonderfully detailed look at her life and her writings.