India, Jan. 25 -- In the latest Knives Out mystery, Wake Up Dead Man (2025), detective Benoit Blanc at one point examines a reading list of crime novels. There's The Hollow Man (1935) by John Dickson Carr; Dorothy L Sayers's Whose Body? (1923) and Edgar Allan Poe's The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841). The only author with two entries on the list is Agatha Christie: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926), which celebrates its centenary this year, and The Murder at the Vicarage, the first Miss Marple novel. Rian Johnson, who wrote and directed all three Knives Out films, has said they are directly inspired by Christie. There are several other such films, and filmmakers. M Night Shyamalan said he consciously modelled ensemble "introduction scenes...