‘Passenger to Frankfurt’ (1970) is a globe-trotting mess
Sleuthing Sunday (Book review): Late in her career, Agatha Christie reaches a dubious achievement: a novel that’s worse than “The Big Four.”
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‘Passenger to Frankfurt’ (1970) is a globe-trotting mess
Christie chips in on Detection Club’s ‘Floating Admiral’ (1931)
Sleuthing Sunday (Book review): This fascinating but failed experiment finds 14 authors handing off a baton as they choose their own adventure.
‘Endless Night’ (1967) shows the ‘happily ever after’ … not so happily
Sleuthing Sunday (Book review): Rightly labeled as one of Christie’s “horror” novels, “Endless Night” is light on killings, but drenched in foreboding.
‘A Murder is Announced’ (1950) a vintage ‘cozy mystery’
Sleuthing Sunday (Book review): Agatha Christie didn’t write as many cozy village murder mysteries as the stereotype suggests. But this is one of them.
T&T still have game in ‘By the Pricking of My Thumbs’ (1968)
Sleuthing Sunday (Book review): Agatha Christie returns to the spousal sleuths after a 27-year hiatus, and she hasn’t forgotten how to write them.
‘And Then There Were None’ (1939) an early slasher classic
Sleuthing Sunday (Book review): Widely regarded as one of Christie’s best novels, it deserves more credit as a progenitor of slasher horror.
Christie’s ‘Towards Zero’ (1944) counts down to murder
Sleuthing Sunday (Book review): This briskly paced and well-drawn character piece is only undone by the unlikely turns of the denouement.
Poirot warmly tackles cold case of ‘Five Little Pigs’ (1942)
Sleuthing Sunday (Book review): Character drama and mystery flawlessly come together in Christie’s beautifully written novel.
‘Crooked House’ (1949) a stealthily tragic tale
Sleuthing Sunday (Book review): They aren’t criminals or even bad people. But there’s something not right in the titular household in this Christie classic.
Even Hank Searls can’t save ‘Jaws: The Revenge’ (1987)
Toothy Tuesday (Book review): Sure, the novelization is better than the movie, but a tale of a voodoo shark remains inherently ridiculous.