Series highlights life and work of Agatha Christie

The Dover Public Library will host a series of programs on mystery novelist Agatha Christie, a best-selling author who has written 66 detective novels and dozens of short stories and plays, many featuring legendary sleuths Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. In this new series participants will take a deeper look into the life and work of Christie.

Movie Night: The Mystery of Agatha Christie will be Monday, Oct. 16 at 6:30 p.m. In this showing of the classic PBS documentary featuring acclaimed actor David Suchet, participants will explore the close links between Christie’s extraordinary life and her work and discover just what it is about this woman from a small seaside town that allowed her to become the best-selling murder mystery writer in history.

Book Discussion: And Then There Were None will be Tuesday, Oct. 17 at 6:30 p.m. Ten strangers are lured to an isolated island mansion off the Devon coast by a mysterious "U.N. Owen." At dinner a recorded message accuses each of them in turn of having a guilty secret, and by the end of the night, one of the guests is dead. Stranded by a violent storm, they are haunted by a nursery rhyme, counting down one by one as they begin to die. Which among them is the killer and will any of them survive?

Movie Night: Witness for the Prosecution will be Wednesday, Oct. 18 at 6:30 p.m. Screen legends Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich and Charles Laughton star in this "brilliantly made courtroom drama" (Film Daily). Directed by Billy Wilder, scripted by Wilder and Harry Kurnitz, and based on Agatha Christie's hit London play, this classic "crackles with emotional electricity" (The New York Times).

Agatha Christie and the Mystery of the Eleven Missing Days will be Saturday, Oct. 21 at 2 p.m. In December 1926 popular mystery writer Agatha Christie disappeared. Was she kidnapped? Did she commit suicide? Was she murdered? If so, who did it? All of Great Britain hangs on every newspaper update, yet 11 days later Christie is discovered alive and well at a nearby hotel. Join Deputy Chief Inspector Kenward as he files his final report to his superiors and all mystery is cleared up. Event will be presented by living historian Chris Hart.

Call 330-343-6123 to register for individual programs.