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Tag: Agatha Christie

  • When Agatha Christie Disappeared

    Lucy Foley’s new (authorized) Miss Marple novel will be out in late September and it’s just had its cover reveal: The book trailer is stylish but more coy than informative. I do think Foley was clever to set her first Christie novel outside of St. Mary Mead, and Christie’s Marple did travel to a a…

  • Helen Baxendale in Poirot, Marple, and P.D. James

    Most non-UK viewers likely remember actor Helen Baxendale from her unfortunate role as Emily, the Englishwoman so unsuitably affianced to the appallingly selfish and immature Ross in Friends. David Schwimmer is a terrific actor, and I enjoy his portrayal of the worst person in the series: an academic who dates his student (oof–well past the…

  • My DNF Pile: Bad Books by Good Writers; and a Happy Free Find by Andrew Taylor

    “Bad” is relative, here. Agatha Christie never wrote a truly terrible book. But my commitment to reading Elephants Can Remember was quickly shaken by the prose style, plotting devices, and endless digressions. This is not a very good Christie, at any rate, and since I’m reading it in an ugly Internet Archive version, with a…