Agatha Christie Literary Event Of 2014 [VIDEO]

Dame Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time, outsold only by the Holy Bible and Shakespeare. Her books have sold over a billion copies in English with another billion in foreign languages.

Now imagine being given permission to resume her legacy by the Christie estate. Enter Sophie Hannah, internationally bestselling author of eight psychological thrillers, to reboot the beloved, mustache-obsessed Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, who is on the case once more!

One of the toughest challenges in literature is to attempt to resume a legacy once the famous author has died. Many have tried and failed. However, Ms. Hannah has created a winning approach to how detective Poirot comes back after being dormant for 38 years! Ms. Hannah does a superb job of winning over Christie fans without copying or trying to imitate the grand dame's style.

Sophie Hannah, highly regarded as a poet and bestselling crime author, joined me via telephone from London to chat about what it's like to follow in the steps of the greatest novelist of all-time, how she approached the resurrection of a famous character and how her love for Dame Agatha Christie is channeled through The Monogram Murders: The New Hercule Poirot Mystery, a William Morrow/Harper Collins publication.