Besides wit, style and psychological insight, Christie had the capacity to generate a mood of ‘trustful mistrust’ and deceive her readers in a respectful fashion.
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Dennis Altman’s Righting my World tells the story of his long history in activism, over 50 years, beginning with the gay liberation movement of the 1960s.
Celebrating literary anniversaries centres on many things including cultural connection, nostalgia, pride and a sense of belonging.
Seven Dials refreshes Christie for our times, and it does it admirably.
Instances of male characters’ hatred of women in Christie’s fiction are a long way from the toxic online “manosphere” of today.
A worldwide survey asked readers why they’re attracted to crime-romance novels. Crime explores safety and justice. Romance offers escape. Crime-romance offers both.
There’s something for all fans of mysteries, from closed community stories to dysfunctional families.
It is how the detectives respond to superstition which cements the connections between the Conan Doyle and Christie stories
The most recent instalment in Kenneth Branagh’s Poirot franchise is not faithful to Agatha Christie’s work, but it is entertaining all the same.
In A Haunting in Venice, Kenneth Branagh continues cinema’s long tradition of adapting Christie through the lens of horror.
The enjoyment of the show is not in working out who did it but in the eccentricities of the ever-turning plot.
Agatha Christie never explicitly said so, but many of her Belgian detective’s character traits could be interpreted as being autistic.
From ‘Breaking Bad’ to James Bond, certain chemicals are popular options for characters looking to achieve nefarious ends.
Branagh’s adaptations are more concerned with Poirot himself than any of the suspects – the murder in this film only happens 70 minutes in.
A book that defies the usual mystery formula, Death on the Nile is more than just a clever tale about murder.
From Emile Brontë’s West York Moors to the mining town where DW Lawrence set Sons and Lovers, there is much literary heritage to be discovered all over the UK.
Christie used her Belgian sleuth to unpick ideas of England and Englishness.
Whether they are set in a country house or on the mean streets, detective novels tell us so much about human nature.
How 4,000-year-old papyrus letters prompted the queen of crime fiction to write Death Comes as the End.
Just about everyone knows whodunnit. But there are other reasons to see a movie than just the plot.
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