Take what you know of Agatha Christie as a person and add what you know of her works of fiction, then "let waters roll down like justice" to dilute, until there is nothing of Agatha Christie left. That seems to be the "receipt", as Miss Marple might put it, followed by the writer of Agatha and The Curse of Ishtar.
The weak humour is a dead giveaway that the writer lacks confidence in the story he's telling. The hotel receptionist infers that Mrs Christie is mute, because she draws a cross on a piece of paper to indicate her companion requires medical assistance (thinking that the receptionist wouldn't speak English). A woman who infers that Mrs Christie has been getting to know Max Mallowan in the biblical sense, asks how Mrs Christie found "the artefacts". You can see that this isn't going to be a profound work.
Like the earlier Agatha and the Truth of Murder (2018), this had a running time of 2 hours on Channel 5 in the UK and was similarly far too frequently punctuated with adverts (commercial breaks). Very little of interest happened between the adverts.
The weak humour is a dead giveaway that the writer lacks confidence in the story he's telling. The hotel receptionist infers that Mrs Christie is mute, because she draws a cross on a piece of paper to indicate her companion requires medical assistance (thinking that the receptionist wouldn't speak English). A woman who infers that Mrs Christie has been getting to know Max Mallowan in the biblical sense, asks how Mrs Christie found "the artefacts". You can see that this isn't going to be a profound work.
Like the earlier Agatha and the Truth of Murder (2018), this had a running time of 2 hours on Channel 5 in the UK and was similarly far too frequently punctuated with adverts (commercial breaks). Very little of interest happened between the adverts.