This lovely blue floral gown was first worn by Chloë Annett as Gertrude Winkworth in the 1992 episode of Jeeves and Wooster entitled Bertie Takes Gussie’s Place At Deverill Hall.

The piece was worn again by Elisabeth Dermot Walsh as Elinor Carlisle in the 2003 episode of Poirot entitled Sad Cypress.

Costume Credit: Gal_In_Calico

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Sad Cypress by Agatha Christie with a Tom Adams cover. More here.

Nice still from Sad Cypress I came across the other day.

Love's a desperate and twisting business.

Sad Cypress, Agatha Christie

"if there was anyone to ever get through this life with their heart still in tact they didn't do it right"

-- Hozier, "all things end"

"to care passionately for another creature brings always more sorrow than joy; but all the same... one would not be without that experience. Anyone who has never really loved has never really lived."

-- Agatha Christie, Sad Cypress

Kelly Reilly as Mary Gerrard in ‘Sad Cypress’.

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Read Sad Cypress this week and then, for the sheer fun of it, decided to read Strong Poison afterward to see the different ways Christie and Sayers handled a similar plot structure. My brain now keeps wanting to write a compare-and-contrast paper on the two. Neither is better than the other, but they are just! so! different! And yet! So alike in some crucial areas! Even down to the motives, and the manner in which the murderers gave themselves alibis! (Also do you realize that Strong Poison has Lord Peter and Sad Cypress has Peter Lord? Surely that had to be a cheeky nod to Sayers from Christie?)

Also, given the fact that both the Peters are assured that their love interest will surely come around and fall in love with them off-page, and we all know how well that worked for Lord Peter, I'm having grave doubts about Peter Lord's romance with Elinor. I mean, I'm sure it will end well in the long run, but it might not be as simple as Poirot makes it sound.

Paul McGann is in Poirot playing a doctor.

"To care passionately for another human creature brings always more sorrow than joy; but all the same, Elinor, one would not be without that experience. Anyone who has never really loved has never really lived..." (Sad Cypress, Agatha Christie)

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Just finished my first book for 2023 - Sad Cypress by Agatha Christie

I liked Sad Cypress but i think it's one i'll have to revisit in a few years. Midway through reading it my family lost one of our pets so i mostly kept reading as a way to distract myself/cope and i think i missed bits because i wasn't super focused on it.

“Ah, but life is like that! It does not permit you to arrange and order it as you will. It will not permit you to escape emotion, to live by the intellect and by reason! You cannot say, ‘I will feel so much and no more.’ Life, Mr. Welman, whatever else it is, is not reasonable!”

- Sad Cypress by Agatha Christie