In a piece on the crime fiction market the BBC online magazine leads with HarperCollins plans to issue the classic Agatha Christie mysteries in graphic novel format. The series is scheduled to debut next month during Agatha Christie Week.

Their hope is that this will open up the Christie books to the hip young things that read graphic novels. Maybe it will also open up traditional mystery readers to the possibilities of the graphic novel format too.

The BBC story includes a link to a short gallery featuring some art samples.