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MipDrama Title ‘Agatha Christie’s Hjerson’ – Broken Down by Producers Patrik Andersson & Ulf Synnerholm
John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentFew titles which will have been presented at this Friday’s MipDrama look as ingenious in their invention as “Agatha Christie’s Hjerson.”Anyone looking for a series of novels in the Poirot or Marple vein will look in vain. Sven Hjerson appears in multiple Christie works, but always via (often disparaging) comments made by his creator, fictional crime novelist Ariadne Oliver, a friend of Poirot’s whom Christie invented to let off steam about the travails of crime writing.Despite being her most popular detective, Oliver would like to kill him off, she says.
