08-05-2025
Jeremy Vine: Can an AI Agatha Christie help me to write a crime bestseller?
Simeon Lee was my first murder victim. He died brutally. He had — foolishly, in my view — invited members of his family to his country estate. A controlling and domineering man, he told his relatives he was rewriting his will. They seethed with resentment.
He went to his study and locked the door. Then there was a loud racket, the sound of struggle in the room. When the door was forced open, Lee lay dead in a huge pool of blood. The only clue was a small piece of rubber on the floor.
I didn't kill him. He died in Agatha Christie's novel Hercule Poirot's Christmas. If you were hooked by the first two paragraphs of this article, you have the makings of an
