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Showing posts with label Agatha Christie. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Agatha Christie. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 16, 2025

Towards Zero, on BritBox

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Poor Superintendent Battle. He is always overlooked, even though he is probably Agatha Christie’s fourth most prolific crime-solver (after P...
Tuesday, June 13, 2023

Agatha Christie’s Criminal Games: The 1970’s, on MHz Choice

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Few writers have been ripped-off as much as Agatha Christie. Seriously, how many And then There Were None clones have you seen? With that in...
Monday, November 28, 2022

Agatha Christie’s Hjerson, on Topic

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Sven Hjerson is to Agatha Christie’s novels what Beebo is to DC Comics. He is a fictional character within a fictional world. Several of Dam...
Saturday, April 02, 2022

Branagh’s Rockin’ Death on the Nile

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Who knew Hercule Poirot had such hip taste in music? It came as a surprise to him too, but he really grooves to Sister Rosetta Tharpe . Tech...
Sunday, May 30, 2021

Agatha and the Midnight Murders

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Blame Inland Revenue, the UK’s equivalent of the IRS. If they had not hounded Agatha Christie for tax on the American royalties she had not ...
Saturday, May 29, 2021

Agatha and the Curse of Ishtar

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It wasn't just D eath on the Nile . Agatha Christie often took inspiration from archaeology, including her ancient Egyptian mystery nove...
Friday, January 15, 2021

Inside the Mind of Agatha Christie, on PBS

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Presumably, the West End theater shutdown forced by CCP-Covid should not interrupt the record of Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap for most c...
Wednesday, March 11, 2020

Agatha Christie’s The Pale Horse, on Prime Video

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Agatha Christie’s name is synonymous with mystery, but dabbled enough in supernatural fiction to fill a recent anthology, The Last Séa...
Monday, November 25, 2019

Agatha and the Truth of Murder: Christie’s 11-Day Mystery

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Agatha Christie remains so beloved by her public, we still can’t help wondering where she got off to during her mysterious eleven-day ...
Thursday, January 24, 2019

Agatha Christie’s The ABC Murders (Still, More or Less), on Prime Video

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England wasn’t so merry in the 1930s. The economy was depressed, nativism was on the rise, and war was brewing. Worst of all, the world’...
Wednesday, August 08, 2018

(Sort of) Agatha Christie’s Ordeal by Innocence, on Prime Video

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It seems almost sacrilegious to change one of Dame Agatha Christie’s endings. Imagine watching a version of Murder on the Orient Express...
Monday, December 18, 2017

Crooked House: One of Dame Agatha’s Favorites, Finally Adapted for Film

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Reportedly, Dame Agatha Christie’s two favorite novels from her voluminous oeuvre were this twisty novel from 1949 and Ordeal by Innocenc...
Friday, March 11, 2016

And Then There Were None: U.N. Owen Throws a Dinner Party

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The nursery rhyme that inspired Dame Agatha Christie’s greatest bestseller has gone through several politically correct facelifts. Curren...
Friday, July 08, 2011

Miss Marple Crashes at the Pale Horse

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She might seem like a sweet old dear a bit tipsy with the sherry, but if you have a garden party poisoner on the loose, Miss Jane Marple is ...
Friday, June 17, 2011

Still Belgian After All These Years: Poirot XI

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David Suchet is an excellent character actor, but cineastes that came of age watching Sir Peter Ustinov’s joie de vivre in the role likely h...
Tuesday, August 24, 2010

French Christie: Towards Zero

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It is always satisfying to hear: “I suppose you’re wondering why I’ve called you all together,” those magic words that signify an Agatha Chr...