Showing posts with label Agatha Christie. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Agatha Christie. Show all posts
August 24, 2022

Davies on A Great Borrower and a Great Originator, and Also, Perhaps, a Great Lender @horacefuller @NeroWolfePack

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Ross E. Davies, George Mason University Law School; The Green Bag, has published A Great Borrower and a Great Originator, and  Also, Perhaps...
May 14, 2018

ICYMI: Lisa Hopkins on Shakespeare Allusion in Crime Fiction (Palgrave, 2016)

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ICYMI: Lisa Hopkins, Sheffield Hallam University, has published Shakespeare Allusion in Crime Fiction (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). Here fr...
August 22, 2017

Del Gobbo on Unreliable Narration in Law and Fiction @danieldelgobbo

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Daniel Del Gobbo has published Unreliable Narration in Law and Fiction, 30 Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 311 (2017). Here is ...
July 4, 2017

Murder on the Orient Express Returns To the Big Screen

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In anticipation of the new version of Murder on the Orient Express,   Entertainment Weekly 's Tina Jordan offers this guide to Agatha C...
January 21, 2017

Agatha Christie's "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd" In Graphic Form @ComicsGrid @nytimesbooks @

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Via @ComicsGrid From the New York Times: Agatha Christie's classic The Murder of Roger Ackroyd , distilled into a pithy graphic forma...
September 16, 2016

When There's Toxin in the Text: Some Cites To Agatha Christie's Uses of Poisons in Her Mysteries

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I should have published this post yesterday, on the anniversary of Agatha Christie's birth, but no harm, no foul, so to speak. As you...
August 19, 2016

A New Version of "Witness for the Prosecution" May Be Headed For the Screen

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Ben Affleck may remake Witness for the Prosecution for Fox, according to the Hollywood Reporter.  Billy Wilder famously made the Agatha C...
July 11, 2016

Two Books On Golden Age Detective Fiction

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Two books of interest, which I learned about from the blog crossexamining crime (now listed in the blogroll). Megan Hoffman, Gender ...
May 12, 2016

Women Detectives In Fact and Fiction: A New Book by Erika Janik

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Erika Janik has published Pistols and Petticoats: 175 Years of Lady Detectives, in Fact and Fiction (Beacon Press, 2016). Here is a descrip...
December 26, 2015

Readers Take On a Challenge: Designing Covers For Christie's Mysteries

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The Guardian asked its readers to design book covers for Agatha Christie's mysteries. Here are some of the results.
July 4, 2015

Updating Agatha Christie

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The Agatha Christie estate, led by Mathew Pritchard, Dame Agatha's grandson, is plotting to re-invigorate the brand by livening up the ...
May 5, 2015

Detecting Murder

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Martin Edwards has published The Golden Age of Murder (Harper Collins, 2015), available both in hardcover and as a e-book.  Here's a d...
July 26, 2014

His Final Bow

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PBS will begin airing the last season's adaptations of Agatha Christie's Poirot novels on July 27.  After a quarter of a century, w...
February 28, 2014

BBC To Air New Versions of "Partners In Crime" and "And Then There Were None" In 2015

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The BBC has contracted with the Agatha Christie estate to bring new adaptations of the married couple whodunits  Partners in Crime  and the...
February 3, 2013

Agatha Christie, Literary Critic

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The used book site abebooks.com features a post about fictional detectives here . Blogger Beth Carswell notes what the Guardian calls autho...
September 29, 2012

Criminal Writers

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From the Guardian: a podcast  discussing Agatha Christie's views on her own work, the work of two new crime writers, Attica Locke and T...
September 15, 2008

In Agatha Christie's Own Voice, a Window On the Last Third of Her Life

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Julie Bosman writes in the New York Times about a cache of tapes found recently featuring Agatha Christie's own voice and discussing a n...