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Celebrate Agatha Christie's 120th birthday with PBS and SeniorLearn!

The July 11 premiere of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express headlines a trio of new Poirot mysteries on PBS MASTERPIECE MYSTERY! This long-awaited adaptation is preceded by a one-hour special taking viewers on a present-day journey aboard the iconic train. The documentary, David Suchet on the Orient Express, airs Wednesday, July 7, on PBS.

MASTERPIECE MYSTERY is celebrating Christie and her suave Belgian detective with activities of interest to fans:

-- Q&A with David Suchet at http://www.pbs.org/masterpiece/poirot

-- a live Twitter event during the July 11 broadcast of Murder on the Orient Express. Experts from Mystery Readers International, Mystery Scene and The Strand magazines will be tweeting. Join them and tag your posts with the hashtag #mystery_pbs and then visit TweetGrid at http://is.gd/cKuvj or use your own favorite aggregator.

-- Copies of the book and an engaging discussion. SeniorLearn will be talking about the PBS Special "David Suchet on the Orient Express" and discussing the book and PBS adaptation of "Murder on the Orient Express" starting July 7. Thanks to the generosity of PBS, a paperback copy of Murder on the Orient Express is available for only the cost of postage. We're sorry! All books have been given away.

Join our PBS Masterpiece Mystery 2010 discussion.

Watch David Suchet on the Orient Express. Full program available online July 8-August 16.

Watch Murder on the Orient Express. Full program available after July 11.