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A dying man's last words provide the title of Agatha Christie's Why Didn't They Ask Evans?, a 1980 London Weekend Television comedy-laced mystery. Francesca Annis and James Warwick star as Lady Francis Derwent and Bobby Jones, two friends who become amateur detectives when Bobby hears those dying words from a man who has fallen -- or was he pushed? -- from a cliff. These first-time sleuths are driven by little more than curiosity and a sense of adventure, so it's no wonder the mystery often unfolds rather comically. It may also come as no surprise that their investigation seems to be leading toward intimacy. Indeed, there's a rather nice chemistry between Annis and Warwick, which subsequently flowered into delightfully sexy repartee when they starred as Christie's married detective duo in Tommy & Tuppence: Partners in Crime a few years later. While their rapport here is a bit more chaste, the spark is undeniable, and the mystery itself, a rather slowly unfolding and complex affair, keeps them on their toes. The result is a solid detective story with a dash of romance, a splash of action, and seasoned with enough intrigue to keep it enjoyably unpredictable from beginning to end. Gregory Baird

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In this made-for-television mystery (adapted from a novel by Agatha Christie) a man dying on a beach utters the question "Why didn't they ask Evans?" Amateur detectives Frankie and Bobby subsequently begin digging for an explanation for the enigmatic query, which leads them to an utterly surprising conclusion. Sandra Brennan

Product Details

• UPC: 054961601394
• Source: ACORN MEDIA
• Aspect Ratio: Pre-1954 Standard (1.33.1)
• Language: English
• Time: 3:08:00
• Sales Rank: 16,244

This DVD is also available as part of a box set:

• Agatha Christie's Romantic Detectives

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