If there is more to Christie novels than meets the eye when it comes to racism and xenophobia, however, then this has never really been reflected in screen takes on her work. Previous adaptations of Poirot – from the films starring Albert Finney and Peter Ustinov to the UK TV version memorably starring David Suchet – have been very white, and often merely used "exotic" locations as eye-pleasing backdrops rather than truly depicted them as real-world places, suffering from the effects of colonial rule.