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Tag: Agatha Christie

  • Agatha Christie’s Poirot: Elephants Can Remember

    Publicity still from Elephants Can Remember, season 13 of Agatha Christie’s Poirot. David Suchet as Poirot; Zoë Wanamaker as crime writer Ariadne Oliver. “Elephants can remember, but we are human beings and mercifully human beings can forget.” Agatha Christie, Elephants Can Remember I complained some months back that Agatha Christie’s Elephants Can Remember was unreadable.…

  • An Easter Post: Women in Prison, Agatha Christie’s Sad Cypress, and Dorothy L. Sayers’s Strong Poison

    I was halfway through Sad Cypress before I realized that the young doctor who had sought Hercule Poirot’s assistance was named Peter Lord. Lord Peter. A nice tribute to Dorothy L. Sayers in a book that follows the broad outlines of her earlier novel, Strong Poison. Sad Cypress was published a decade after Sayers’s book,…

  • 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…