Agatha Christie is the latest to novelist to have had a fresh edit given to some of her works to make them more palatable to readers.
Her Poirot and Miss Martple detective tales have had passages removed that might be seen more offensive today as when they first were written more than a century ago through until the mid-Seventies.
Mostly the excisions have to do with issues of race and sexuality.
The refreshing, by the publisher Harper Collins, follows similar sensitivity exercises with the works of Ronald Dahl and Ian Fleming.
The Agatha Christies podcast host and mystery author Kemper Donovan spoke to Morning Report.
