Ordeal by Innocence [TV Tie-in]

Considered by critics as one of the best of Agatha Christie’s later novels,and a personal favorite for Christie herself—now a limited streaming series starring Bill Nighy and Anna Chancellor! Accused of bludgeoning his mother to death with a pokerJacko Argyle had maintained his innocence throughout his trialclaiming he was hitchhiking on the night of the murder and had been picked up by a middle-aged man in a dark car. The police were never able to locate this mystery man—until he shows up a year later. But Dr. Arthur Calgary arrives too late to substantiate Jacko’s alibi. For after serving just six months of his life sentenceJacko dies behind bars following a bout of pneumonia. Feeling a sense of duty to the ArgylesCalgary is surprised when his revelations reopen old wounds in the familyleaving him to wonder if one of them is the real murderer….