Agatha Christie's 'Dead Man's Folly': stagnation, negation and adaptation

Two film adaptations of Agatha Christie's <i>Dead Man's Folly</i> can assist in deconstructing the novel as a textual folly. A comparison of <i>Dead Man's Folly</i> to <i>The Body in the Library</i> reveals that Christie's tricks in the latter text, which may or may not have fooled Miss Marple, are also played on Hercule Poirot.