Agatha Christie novels reworked to remove potentially offensive language

Several Agatha Christie novels have been edited to remove potentially offensive language, including insults and references to ethnicity.

Sensitivity readers had made the edits, which were evident in digital versions of the new editions, including the entire Miss Marple run and selected Poirot novels set to be released or that have been released since 2020, the Telegraph reported.

The updates follow edits made to books by Roald Dahl and Ian Fleming to remove offensive references to gender and race in a bid to preserve their relevance to modern readers.