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“THIS guy practically lived on a Clue board,” says Lakeith Stanfield’s police lieutenant as he investigates the suspicious death of rich crime writer Harlan Thrombey.

When he says Clue, he means Cluedo – the British board game that has been pointlessly renamed and ruthlessly monkeyed around with by the Americans.

In one of this year’s most entertaining films, US writer-director Rian Johnson plays fast and loose with another British invention – the country house murder-mystery.

His hilarious and suspense-packed homage to Agatha Christie leaves everything on the board. There’s a Victorian country pile, eccentric relatives, hidden doorways, weapons on the wall and a hammily accented celebrity detective stalking the corridors.

The morning after his 85th birthday party, Harlan (Christopher Plummer) is discovered in his bedroom with his throat cut. At first the cops rule it a suicide, but after Southern private detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig, above, channelling both Hercule Poirot and Foghorn Leghorn) casts his eye over the case, it’s clear every one of his potential heirs had a motive and an opportunity to bump off the old millionaire. So whodunnit? Early favourites include Harlan’s icy daughter Linda (Jamie Lee Curtis), his resentful publisher son Walt (Michael Shannon), his black sheep grandson Ransom (Chris Evans) his other creepy right-wing grandson Jacob (Jaeden Martell) and his entitled grand-daughter Meg (Katherine Langford).

The in-laws look pretty tasty, too. Linda’s philandering husband Richard DrysdaleThrombey

(Don Johnson) is suspiciously cocky. And while Harlan’s widowed daughter-in-law Joni (Toni Collette) talks like a peace-loving hippy, her daft “wellness” company definitely needs an injection of cash.

The only likeable character in this den of vipers is Harlan’s personal nurse Marta (Ana de Armas), an immigrant from Nicaragua, Colombia or Ecuador. A running joke is that, while everyone insists she’s “one of the family”, no-one seems to be able to remember where she came from.

Marta has an unusual affliction whenever she tells a lie she pukes. This may sound like the most unlikely medical condition since that Prince Andrew interview,