Death Beat

Death Beat was the working title for a proposed musical adaptation of the Agatha Christie novel Hickory Dickory Dock, planned in the early 1960s. According to Christie biographer Janet Morgan, the project was a collaboration between John Wells, a former master at Eton, and Alexis Weissenberg, a pianist. The plan was for John Dankworth to orchestrate the score, Peter Sellers to play Poirot and Sean Kenny to design the sets. Some songs were written but the project did not get beyond the preliminary stage.