Christie schools us in ‘Cat Among the Pigeons’ (1959)
Sleuthing Sunday (Book review): A girls school provides a great setting and characters as a string of murders threatens to put class out of session for good.
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Christie schools us in ‘Cat Among the Pigeons’ (1959)
‘Hickory Dickory Death’ (1955) has diverse array of suspects
Sleuthing Sunday (Book review): Christie uses a younger-than-usual cast to go through her usual, but enjoyable, mystery-building motions.
Osborne dusts off ‘Black Coffee’ in 1998 novelization
Sleuthing Sunday (Book review): Charles Osborne stays respectful of Christie’s brisk play while making it accessible to readers of the printed word.
‘Harlequin Tea Set’ (1997) gathers some antique gems
Sleuthing Sunday (Book review): The last of Christie’s U.S. short story collections isn’t merely a case of odds and ends being swept up.
Poirot engages fairer sex in ‘Labors of Hercules’ (1947)
Sleuthing Sunday (Book review): Hercule Poirot in love? That’s the surprising part of an otherwise middle-of-the-road collection of stories.
Christie hones craft in ‘Under Dog and Other Stories’ (1951)
Sleuthing Sunday (Book review): We go back to the early days of Poirot and Hastings as Agatha Christie irons out her order and method.
‘There is a Tide …’ (1948) soaked with good characters, case
Sleuthing Sunday (Book review): Poirot comes in at the halfway mark, and his insights into people might be more important than his nose for clues.
Branagh delivers lavish adaptations of ‘Murder on the Orient Express’ (2017), ‘Death on the Nile’
Sleuthing Sunday (Movie reviews): Kenneth Branagh makes Poirot into a broad cinematic character. It’s not for purists, but the approach grew on me.
Spy-murder mashup ‘The Clocks’ (1963) is worth your time
Sleuthing Sunday (Book review): Christie’s playfulness is on display in “The Clocks,” where she gets amusingly cynical about the spy state.
Party vibe makes ‘Dead Man’s Folly’ (1956) a fun read
Sleuthing Sunday (Book review): As Ariadne Oliver and Poirot team up at a Fete gone awry, the mystery is compelling but the solution is hoary.