The BBC has announced plans to start filming a two-part thriller based on Agatha Christie's classic mystery novel, Murder is Easy, this summer.
Sian Ejiwunmi-Le Berre wrote the screenplay and Meenu Gaur is onboard to direct the miniseries, which is set in 1954 England.
"On a train to London, a man going by the name of Luke Fitzwilliam meets Miss Pinkerton, who tells him that a killer is on the loose in the sleepy English village of Wychwood under Ashe," a synopsis said.
"The villagers believe the deaths are mere accidents, but Miss Pinkerton knows otherwise -- and when she's later found dead on her way to Scotland Yard, Luke feels he must find the killer before they can strike again. Because for a certain kind of person, murder is easy."
Ejiwunmi-Le Berre said she has watched every adaptation made from Christie's books."Christie wrote for the world and the whole world loves her back," she said in a statement Wednesday.
"But somehow I'd never read one of her novels. When I first read Murder is Easy, I couldn't believe how daring, experimental and furious the book was. Nothing like I'd expected," she added.
The story was previously adapted as a 1982 TV movie starring Olivia de Havilland, Helen Hayes, Bill Bixby and Lesley-Anne Down, and as a 2009 episode of the TV series Marple starring Julia McKenzie, Benedict Cumberbatch and Shirley Henderson.
