'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?' (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
In Agatha Christie’s Secret Notebooks , John Curran hails Five Little Pigs as the greatest of her ‘murder in the past’ plots. He suggests that it is her most impressive combination of detective and ‘straight’ novel. I agree, though I’d add that some of the books in which she focuses essentially on a creating a complex mystery are even more brilliant....
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
Originally published on 27 November 1952 LONDON, WEDNESDAY. As the snow piles up around the isolated guest-house in "The Mousetrap," at the Ambassadors Theatre, the false clues drift across the stage, deluding the less alert in the audience and appearing to deceive characters in the play who ought to know better. Agatha Christie's comedy-thriller, like a more expensive production...
Christian Science Monitor (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
It's been a long time since there was any fresh news of Hercule Poirot. At least 34 years have passed since the Belgian detective – one the finest creations of Agatha Christie – was featured in any new story published in the US. But now the iconic crime solver with ...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
... Val McDermid may plumb the most gruesome reaches of psychopathology, but she's a passionate Agatha Christie aficionado.
Tantrums and Tequila (Free subscription) | yesterday
... scene with Stephanie and Ranger. I gave this book 7 stars. (I already owned this book) N or M? by Agatha Christie N or M? is my least favorite Agatha Christie novel so far. Halfway thought the novel I realized that absolutely nothing of any importance has happened yet. I pushed on and found that the mystery came together nicely in the end. I'm glad I stuck with the book...
ABC TV (Free subscription) | yesterday
A collection of stories based on the world-famous fictional detective Hercule Poirot, created from the works of Agatha Christie.
ABC TV (Free subscription) | yesterday
A collection of stories based on the world-famous fictional detective Hercule Poirot, created from the works of Agatha Christie.
Anglican Mainstream (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
`Daily Telegraph' `Murray Wardrop' The 63-year-old, most famous for playing the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, said Britain risks losing the importance of Christianity in our multi- cultural society. Suchet, who has played the Agatha Christie character on ITV for 21 years, was confirmed as a Christian about two years ago. In an interview for Woman’s Weekly magazine, he [...]
Avocado Thoughts (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
... Introduction - the New Testament as Literature / The Old Testament / Paul ... and there's lots of Agatha Christie, and now Dorothy Sayers, that I'd love to own. Awesome stuff from Firebox.com. In particular I really want this : it's an alarm clock with Stephen Fry waking you up in character as a butler. How awesome is that? (Deluxe - Good Morning Madam version, so as to be gender-appropriate...
JeyamArticle (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
... fishing, and golfing. Or, you may wish to relax on the pier and enjoy the ocean or fish.An annual Agatha Christie Festival held each September draws participants from around the globe. These individuals spend a week celebrating the life and times of Agatha Christie with plays, musicals, and events. You will find 11 locations along Agatha Christie Mile that...
The last bastion of sanity (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
... a bunch of Patricia Wentworth and Ellis Peters which are currently out of print, and a couple of Agatha Christie's which I'd been missing, but too mean to spend full whack on. 15 books for under £40 cannot be sneezed at -- and I'd singlehandedly doubled their take for the weekend :( I half wished I'd bought more -- but fifteen were more than enough to be going on with, especially...
Scandalous Women (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
... if it were a country house mystery, the type that readers might be familiar with if they've read Agatha Christie or Anne Perry. Detective Jonathan Whicher (who inspired Dickens and Wilkie Collins in their fiction) arrives from London to investigate the death of 4 year old Saville Kent who has been brutally murdered and dumped outside in the privy. Immediately he comes into conflict...
io9 (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
All the Change World's a stage, and one man in his part plays many times — though Fritz Leiber's The Big Time is less a time-travel tale and more Agatha Christie-style Matrix, in play form.... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
At Home With Books (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
... Here is my list: 1. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood 2. Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie 3. The Game of Kings by Dorothy Dunnett 4. Ciao Bella by Gina Buonoguro 5. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver 6. Blindness by Jose Saramago 7. Nation by Terry Pratchett 8. The Motion of the Ocean by Janna Cawrse Esarey 9. The Harlot's Progess: Yorkshire Molly by Peter...
When Super-Apes Attack (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
The current anniversary of 'Murder on the Orient Express' (cue tunnel noise and whistle scream) reminds me that I am occasionally conerned that Agatha Christie (be her merits what they may)'s posthumous reputation (however well-deserved) so loomingly overshadows that of Dorothy L Sayers. I'm not saying people shouldn't be reading AC, but shouldn't DLS really take priority? I underrstand...
