#Agatha christie pale horse tv#
In the TV series, the list features Mark’s godson David Ardingly, and Osborne, while Mark’s name has the question mark next to it (because Jessie heard the name from the women at The Pale Horse but didn’t know if he was one of Osborne’s clients). In the book, the names on the list are: Ormerod, Sandford, Parkinson, Hesketh-Dubois, Shaw, Harmondsworth, Tuckerton, Corrigan and Delafontaine, the last two with question marks next to them. Mark, Ardingly and Osborne’s names aren’t on the list
#Agatha christie pale horse series#
It’s worth noting that we have only Mark’s word for this series of events in the book, so Phelps’ idea that he killed his first wife in an unwarranted jealous, possessive rage is a neat dramatic extraction.
Travelling in Italy, Mark discovered Doreen was having an affair with another man, with whom she was killed in a car accident. Infatuated with her prettiness, they married secretly (the family wouldn’t have approved) while he was still very young and at university. In the book, Mark’s first wife Delphine is Doreen. In the series, Mark is cheating on his second wife Hermia with Tommy and when he wakes up next to her dead body, he does nothing to alert the authorities and sneaks out, leaving her to be discovered days later. In the TV series, he puts the Thallium in their water supply. He uses information gathered by a customer research company (for which Jessie Davis works) to ascertain which household and pharmaceutical products his victims use, and then enters their home under a handyman pretext and swaps their product for one laced with Thallium. Osborne’s murder methods differ slightly in the book. Jessie Davis isn’t Osborne’s accomplice in the book In the series, Jessie writes the list in her final hours, knowing that Osborne has poisoned her, and plans to take it to the police and confess, but Osborne – a retired chemist in the book, not the owner of a hardware and repairs shop – murders her in the street before she can do so. He’s followed from the café by a mystery man (“Inconspicuous, respectable, the kind of man who looks like everybody else.”) and killed with a cosh in the street. After she dies, Father Gorman writes down the list of names in a café and puts it in his shoe (because there’s a hole in his coat lining). She confesses it all to him, giving him names and mentioning The Pale Horse. She’s raving about needing to confess wickedness and something that must be stopped. The Pale Horse is now streaming on Vodafone TV in Greece.In the book, the list is found in the shoe of a Catholic priestĮlderly Catholic priest Father Gorman is called out from his presbytery to attend upon a dying (poisoned) woman – Mrs Jessie Davis.
Other international release dates are as follows: Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg 15th March, New Zealand 25th March, Norway 9th April, France 30th April, Finland 23rd December. It launched on Amazon Prime in the US on March 13th. The Pale Horse premiered on BBC One in the UK in February, and is now available on BBC iPlayer. Is this too the work of the witches of The Pale Horse, and does this mean he is next on their list? Or can he find a rational explanation and identify the killer before they catch up with him? Word has it that the witches can do away with a rich relative, by supernatural means alone…ĭespite Mark’s scepticism of the paranormal, he cannot help but be consumed by the increasingly strange and extraordinary things that begin to happen around him. The Pale Horse tells the story of Mark’s investigation into how and why his name came to appear on the list an investigation that leads him to the peculiar home of a trio of rumoured witches, The Pale Horse, in the beautiful village of Much Deeping.
One of those named, is widowed antique dealer, Mark Easterbrook, who despite having found love again, with new wife Hermia, is still haunted by the tragic death of his first wife, Delphine. Who wrote the list, and who do these names refer to? When a murder investigation is launched into the death of a young woman, a mysterious list of names is discovered in her shoe, prompting an inquiry not only to find the killer, but also to understand the list of names.
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