The Adventure Company Appoints
Lee Sheldon to Agatha Christie Series Industry Talent Adapts Mystery Classic
(Toronto, Ontario) August 25th, 2004
– The Adventure Company*, the industry’s leading adventure game publisher, today
confirmed that the first title in its newly licensed series based on the novels
of legendary novelist Agatha Christie will be written and designed by Lee
Sheldon.
A mystery aficionado, Sheldon has
made a major contribution to the adventure genre, with contributions in URU:
Ages Beyond Myst®, Wild Wild West: The Steel Assassin and Ripley’s Believe It or
Not!® : The Riddle of Master Lu. His television credits include Murder She
Wrote®, Quincy, ME, Charlie’s Angels® and Star Trek: The Next Generation®.
“Lee is an extraordinary talent,”
said Richard Wah Kan, CEO of The Adventure Company. “Capturing the original
essence and suspense of a Christie novel will be quite a challenge, but we’re
confident that we’ve sleuthed out the right man for the job.”
Over the next six years, The
Adventure Company will release five PC games adapted from Agatha Christie novels
as part of a global deal with Chorion PLC (LSE: COR), the owner, developer and
manager of branded entertainment content. The development team, along with the
first novel chosen for adaptation, will be announced in September. The first
title will be available at retail in fall of 2005.
About The Adventure Company The
Adventure Company is North America’s number one publisher of adventure games,
publishing award-winning adventure games primarily for Windows®. Visit
www.adventurecompanygames.com
for more details.
*The Adventure Company is a
subsidiary of DreamCatcher Interactive Inc.
About Agatha Christie Known the
world over as the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie (1890-1976) is the world’s
best-known mystery writer. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the
English language and another billion in over 45 foreign languages. She is
outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare.
…more About Chorion: Chorion PLC (LSE:COR)
is an owner, developer and manager of creative content with the rights to key
brands such as Noddy, The Famous Five, Miss Marple, Poirot and Maigret. Visit
www.chorion.com.
