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Why Agatha Christie Still Beguiles Us September 15, 2023
After two relatively faithful adaptations of Agatha Christie’s “Murder on the Orient Express” and “Death on the Nile,” director-star Kenneth Branagh goes wildly off-book with “A Haunting in Venice,” which arrives in theaters Friday. Once again playi...
The Thought Police Come for Miss Marple April 04, 2023
I happen to belong to that small group of Agatha Christie devotees who believe that the great English mystery writer not only told a good yarn but conveyed genuine and enduring wisdom about human nature and the struggle between good and evil in the h...
Agatha Christie Novels Reworked for Sensitivity March 28, 2023
Several Agatha Christie novels have been edited to remove potentially offensive language, including insults and references to ethnicity.Poirot and Miss Marple mysteries written between 1920 and 1976 have had passages reworked or removed in new editio...
The Everlasting Appeal of Agatha Christie February 16, 2023
Every year, You becomes a new show. In its first season, the Lifetime-turned-Netflix hit was a thriller about an obsessive romantic who stalks, courts, and eventually kills his prey. To simply repeat this plot would risk reveling in gendered violence...
Imposter Syndrome February 01, 2023
Early in Rian Johnson’s Glass Onion, private detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig), crushed by the malaise of summer 2020, plays Among Us in the bathtub. Tonally, Glass Onion relies heavily on the feeling of burnt-out skepticism and paranoia that see...
Agatha Christie, Christian Writer March 21, 2022
We regularly require the intellectual equivalent of “fresh air,” but there are times when that need becomes particularly urgent. If that’s the case for you just now, I have a book to recommend: The Importance of Being Poirot, by Jeremy Black, publish...
Murders for Late November November 26, 2021
Andrew Wilson’s I Saw Him Die (Simon and Schuster, 2021, £8.99) is the fourth of Wilson’s detective novels featuring Agatha Christie and written from her perspective. Set in Scotland in 1930 at Dallach Lodge near a ruined castle, the plot hinges on t...
Killing Time with Agatha Christie November 13, 2020
Under virtual house arrest in Paris during the covid-19 epidemic, it occurred to me to write an essay on the transcendent meaning and value of crime novels. I happened to have three with me, and one of them was The Moving Finger by Agatha Christie, p...
The Great Novelist's Grand Universe November 13, 2020
This year is the 150th anniversary of the death of Charles Dickens — Dickens, who as time goes by emerges ever more conclusively as England’s greatest novelist and the literary figure who has come to govern our sense of the Victorian era; to embody i...
Top 10 underrated Agatha Christie novels October 13, 2020
In 2013, when I was first asked by Agatha Christie’s family to write a new Hercule Poirot mystery (I have since written three more), I decided I needed to set myself the incredibly enjoyable homework of rereading all her books – not only the famous t...
On Agatha Christie's Politics February 14, 2019
artin Seymour-Smith's Guide to Modern World Literature is an exhaustive, 1000-page tome that nevertheless omits from its pages some writers whose works are among the most liked and well-regarded of their respective genres. It's inevitable that any co...
The Magpie Murders August 04, 2017
The ghost of Agatha Christie hovers over this novel, Anthony Horowitz's dark and deft mystery. It is not a thriller, it is too clever for that......
Agatha Christie Inspired 'Ten Dead Comedians' July 30, 2017
According to Wikipedia, quoting other sources, there are only seven basic plots in the world, and every piece of fiction is an adaptation of one of those seven......
