Agatha Christie is giving writing lessons, thanks to artificial intelligence

Entitled 'Agatha Christie: Writing,' this course offers aspiring writers valuable insight into the art of constructing a good crime story. Photo: AFP

The BBC isn't raising the dead, but it's getting close. Thanks to artificial intelligence, the author Agatha Christie – who has been dead for almost half a century – becomes the central figure in a new writing course launched by the BBC Maestro platform.

The aim is to teach people how to write like the Queen of Crime, guided by a digital version of the author herself.