Reviews from My Couch https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Agatha Christie Reviews ‘Poirot’ Season 2 (1990) finds groove with Christie-Exton mash-ups ‘Double Sin’ (1961) puts Poirot in a Christmas mood ‘Mousetrap’ collection (1950) doesn’t merely squeak by Christie delivers variety in ‘Regatta Mystery’ (1939) ‘Harlequin Tea Set’ (1997) gathers some antique gems  Christie hones craft in ‘Under Dog and Other Stories’ (1951)  ‘Witness for the Prosecution’ (1948) guilty of being great ‘Poirot Investigates’ (1924), in fewer words this time ‘ABC Murders’ miniseries reinvents Poirot Legends launch in ‘Mysterious Affair at Styles’ (1920) ‘Hercule Poirot’s Christmas’ (1938) a solid stocking stuffer ‘Murder of Roger Ackroyd’ (1926) an early Christie gem Christie’s ‘The Big Four’ (1927) is a big misfire ‘Mystery of the Blue Train’ (1928) stays on rails Marple makes novel debut in ‘Murder at the Vicarage’ (1930) ‘Murder on the Orient Express’ (1974) adds comedy ‘13 at Dinner’ (1933) a vintage Christie whodunit Marple on her game in ‘Tuesday Club Murders’ (1932) Poirot takes swing at ‘Murder on the Links’ (1923) Poirot questions himself in ‘Peril at End House’ (1932) Christie gets theatrical in ‘Murder in Three Acts’ (1935) Poirot airs his theories in ‘Death in the Clouds’ (1935) Poirot all business in ‘Murder in Mesopotamia’ (1936) ‘Cards on the Table’ (1936) shows closed-room mystery mastery Poirot, dog sniff out Christie’s ‘Dumb Witness’ (1937) Christie tries novella form in ‘Dead Man’s Mirror’ (1937) ‘Appointment with Death’ (1938) probes unhappy family ‘Patriotic Murders’ (1940) is both political and personal ‘Sad Cypress’ (1940) a powerful Poirot potboiler Christie’s ‘Evil Under the Sun’ (1941) an ideal beach read Marple says ‘trust no one’ in ‘Body in the Library’ (1942) Makeovers, musings come to fore in ‘Moving Finger’ (1943) Christie dives into romantic minds in ‘The Hollow’ (1946) ‘Mrs. McGinty’s Dead’ (1952), and everyone’s a suspect ‘Murder with Mirrors’ (1952) novel-length sleight of hand ‘Hallowe’en Party’ (1969) can’t capture spirit of season ‘Funerals are Fatal’ (1953), especially in this family ‘Pocket Full of Rye’ (1953) a pocket full of tropes ‘4:50 from Paddington’ (1957) a padded Christie whodunit Party vibe makes ‘Dead Man’s Folly’ (1956) a fun read Christie, Marple still sharp in ‘The Mirror Crack’d’ (1962) Spy-murder mashup ‘The Clocks’ (1963) is worth your time Branagh delivers lavish adaptations of ‘Murder on the Orient Express’ (2017), ‘Death on the Nile’  ‘There is a Tide …’ (1948) soaked with good characters, case  Miss Marple takes a vacation ‘At Bertram’s Hotel’ (1965) Poirot engages fairer sex in ‘Labors of Hercules’ (1947)  Osborne dusts off ‘Black Coffee’ in 1998 novelization  ‘Hickory Dickory Death’ (1955) has diverse array of suspects  Christie schools us in ‘Cat Among the Pigeons’ (1959)