Telemystery: Agatha Christie's Summer House in Devon to Serve as Setting for Last Poirot Episode to be Filmed

The final episodes of Agatha Christie's Poirot to star David Suchet as the famous Belgian private detective are currently in production, and it was announced today that Christie's holiday home in Devon will play a pivotal role in the final episode, "Dead Man's Folly", which will be filmed on location. (This episode will not be the last to air; that will be "Curtain".)

The storyline is expected to closely follow the 1956 novel from which the screenplay is adapted, in which mystery writer Ariadne Oliver (Zoë Wanamaker) invites Poirot to her country house in Devon, where she is staging a "murder hunt"-themed party.

Suchet has now appeared in adaptations of all of Christie's novels and stories to feature Poirot, the achievement of which the actor called "a dream".

"But I'll also be gutted," he added, "because I will be saying a real farewell and a goodbye [to Poirot] and then I will have to bury him."

The first of the five episodes in this final season of the series — "Elephants Can Remember", which coincidentally also features Ariadne Oliver; trailer embedded, below — will premiere later this week on ITV in the UK. Dates for the remaining four episodes have not yet been set, nor have the US premiere dates been announced.