Chapter 14 of David Suchet's book is a fascinating - and very significant - one.
He comments at length on the new style of Poirot productions that emerged from 2003 onwards. None of his 'team' were present any longer - and neither was long-time producer and friend Brian Eastman. The iconic opening credits were also dropped.
Suchet himself took on an unpaid role as associate producer, which meant he began to have more influence on the filming.
He reports on Agatha Christie's comments, in her autobiography, about The Hollow being more of a novel than a detective story, with Poirot's presence being somewhat out of place. Christie made similar comments about Sad Cypress. Both were among the next four stories filmed.
It was also a busy period away from the Poirot moustache for Suchet. He starred in a very different crime production, NCS: Manhunt, the drama Murder in Mind, and, perhaps most notably, in an adaptation of Trollope's Victorian tale of greed and fortune, The Way We Live Now. In America he appeared in Live from Baghdad and the movie The In-Laws, with Michael Douglas.
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