Thursday, February 28, 2019

What Would Christie Do? Judge Her by Her Works, Part 2

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Agatha Christie , creator of eccentric Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot, famously devised a fictional alter ego for herself in Poirot's mys...
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Tuesday, February 26, 2019

There's More Red Herrings in the Sea: Five Golden Age Adaptation Options Besides Agatha (and Fifteen More to Follow up on)

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Say you've read all the mysteries of Agatha Christie, even the relatively undistinguished ones like  Destination Unknown and Third Girl...
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Sunday, February 24, 2019

What Would Christie Do? Judge Her by Her Works, Part One

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At a screening of The ABC Murders in December of last year, scripter Sarah Phelps dismissed as "manufactured outrage" all the com...
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Saturday, February 23, 2019

A Warning to the Presumptuous: P. D. James' Rules for Adapting Crime Novels

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Sarah Phelps , who recently penned the scripts for adaptations (some of them rather loose indeed) of Agatha Christie's And Then There ...
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Thursday, February 21, 2019

Serpentine! The Capital Murder (1932), by James Z. Alner

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Take it from Alfred A. Knopf or leave it; but he has published a book by an author whose name he doesn’t even know.  It is a detective story...
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Friday, February 8, 2019

Film Review: Crooked House (2017)

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As Christie fans vigorously debate the merits of Sarah Phelps ' scripted 2018 adaptations of the Queen of Crime's novels The ABC Mur...
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Monday, February 4, 2019

Reissued: The Mysteries of Moray Dalton (Katherine Mary Deville Dalton Renoir, 1881-1963)

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In March Dean Street Press reissues one of my favorite "forgotten" mystery writers, or, perhaps I should simply say, one of my fav...
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