The Hollow

The Hollow is a 1951 play by crime writer Agatha Christie. It is based on the 1946 book of the same name. Background In her Autobiography, Christie claimed that the success of And Then There Were None set her on the path of being a playwright as well as a writer of books and that only she would adapt her works for the stage from then on, and that The Hollow would be her next play. In writing this, Christie forgot her intervening plays of Appointment with Death (1945) and Murder on the Nile (1946), in addition to Moie Charles and Barbara Toy's 1949 adaptation of Murder at the Vicarage. Christie had always felt that The Hollow would make a good play, but she came up against the opposition of her daughter, Rosalind Hicks, whom Christie affectionately described as having "had the valuable role in life of eternally trying to discourage me without success". Christie was determined to turn the book, which both she and Rosalind liked, into a play, but was equally adamant that in doing so it would lose the character of Hercule Poirot, whose appearance in the book she thought had "ruined it". The parts of the policemen were changed from the book as well from Inspector Grange and Sergeant Clark to Inspector Colquhoun and Detective Sergeant Penny.