Paris: SDP Films, 2003

108 mimeographed pp., blue stiff paper rear wrapper, protective clear plastic front wrapper to title page. Ringbound. French text. A fine, unmarked copy.

Screenplay in French, adapted from Agatha Christie's 1961 novel The Pale Horse, intended for the French market but never made.

The project seems to have been quite far advanced before being abandoned. The title page of Mrs. Oliver et Le Mystère du Cheval Pâlé, which is dated August 2003, lists André Farwagi as producer, Christopher Miles as director, and alongside Miles as screenwriter Benjamin Legrand (the half-brother of legendary screen composer Michel Legrand). But the film features in none of its would-be participants' IMDB listings, and was clearly shelved before production began -- which must have been particularly galling for Christopher Miles, who in 1987 had tried to get another Christie adaptation, Murder in Mesapotamia, off the ground, also without success.

A fine copy, and an understandably scarce piece of Christie arcana: we can find no record of any other copy ever having been offered in commerce.