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Agatha Christie mysteries are still big business, with Kenneth Branagh's Death on the Nile and Amazon series The Pale Horse among the popular recent adaptations.
Now, House star Hugh Laurie is entering the Queen of Crime's world with Why Didn't They Ask Evans? Based on the 1934 book, it sees two people trying to answer the titular question, the last words of a dying man one of them found at a golf course.
Laurie wrote, directed and stars in this new version of the story, whose cast includes Will Poulter, Lucy Boynton, Emma Thompson and Jim Broadbent. Here's how to watch the series now for free.
How to watch Why Didn't They Ask Evans? online
The Agatha Christie adaptation is an original drama from BritBox, the streaming service of British shows and movies from U.K. networks BBC and ITV. The streamer is currently available in the United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Australia, and South Africa, with a launch in the Nordic countries set for some point in 2022.
All three hour-long episodes of Why Didn't They Ask Evans? are streaming now on the service. A subscription to the service costs $6.99 a month, or $69.99 a year. However, the service also offers a seven-day free trial to new customers, giving you plenty of chance to watch the three hours of the show for free.
This new show is far from the only Christie content available on the service. BritBox is also the streaming home of the Poirot series starring David Suchet, as well as two different series of Miss Marple stories – one starring Joan Hickson as the legendary elderly detective, and the other starring first Geraldine McEwan then Julia McKenzie.
BritBox also has versions of the Christie stories Seven Dials Mystery, Secret Adversary, Sparkling Cyanide and Partners in Crime.
As for this new series, the synopsis reads: "Based on her 1934 novel, Why Didn't They Ask Evans? opens with a fine Agatha Christie enigma: a man lies dying at the foot of a cliff, apparently the victim of an accidental fall; with his final breath, he utters the mysterious question of the title and promptly expires.
"Some people—perhaps most people—might shrug at the impenetrable oddness of the words and move on with their lives. But Bobby Jones [played by Will Poulter] and his childhood friend, Lady Frances 'Frankie' Derwent [Lucy Boynton], are not most people.
"They resolve to honor the dead man by deciphering, and then answering, his final question. In so doing, they hit upon a dark conspiracy of deceit, betrayal and—perhaps unsurprisingly—murder."
