Over The Years,

we have watched so many dramas,

 that feature the stories of Agatha Christie,

 but I have never read one of her books,

 which means I have missed out,

 on the book cover work of Tom Adams,

 born in 1926 in Providence, Rhode Island, into a family of distinguished Scottish architects and town planners, Tom’s family moved to Kent when he was six, and he was later trained at the Chelsea School of Art and Goldsmith’s College, after a stint serving on Royal Navy minesweepers at the end of the Second World War,

 for collectors of his artwork in some of the books he used a number of different covers, between Agatha Christie’s A Murder Is Announced in 1962 and Miss Marple’s Final Cases in 1979, Tom painted covers for almost every Agatha Christie book, totalling around 150 different paintings for her publishers on both sides of the Atlantic, and they were reproduced on covers in many languages all over the world, in 1967, Tom opened the Fulham Gallery, enabling emerging artists to be exhibited, after which he designed concepts for leading rock bands and filmmakers, including Stanley Kubrick, Nicolas Roeg and Mike Hodges, and he won the coveted Reader’s Digest Pegasus Award for a series of advertisements he designed for Bell’s Whisky in 1989,

in 2014, Tom was enticed out of retirement to paint the jacket for Hercule Poirot and the Greenshore Folly, and for covers for two Christie books he had never illustrated: the first, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, and Poirot’s swan song Curtain., for more about this most talented artist have a look here at www.tomadamsuncovered.co.uk.