Study Task 03 - Drawing the Detective: Agatha Christie

In this Study Task, I have to reproduce a graphic reinterpretation of Agatha Christie's novel, "Elephants Can Remember" as part of the Guardians celebration of what would have been the authors 125th birthday on September 15th.

Here is a picture of Crime fiction by the British novelist Agatha Christie which are on sale at a festival in honour of the birth anniversary of Agatha Christine in Torquay on September 15th, 2015. Photograph by Jack Taylor.

"Elephants Can Remember" is when Ariadne Oliver becomes an amateur sleuth when her goddaughter tasks herself to find out the truth behind her parents' mysterious deaths. Hercule Poirot is determined to solve the goddaughter's parents as the husband and wife had a double murder and there is still an open verdict! Hercule Poirot stood on the cliff-top. Here, many years earlier, there had been a tragic accident. This was followed by the grisly discovery of the two bodies of the husband and wife both shot dead. But who had killed whom? WAs it a suicide pact? A crime of passion? Or cold-blooded murder? Poirot delves back into the past and discovers that 'old sin can leave long shadows' or the term "elephants, based on the assumption that, like that, like the proverbial elephants, they may have long memories of what happened that unfortunate day.

Here is the original book cover for "Elephants Can Remember":

Here is my version of the book cover:

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