The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

Tag: Agatha Christie

  • Independent Women in Golden Age Mysteries: From Evil Under the Sun to Gaudy Night

    Agatha Christie’s Evil Under the Sun (1941) has a wonderful series of final revelations. Poirot untangles the various threads that have complicated his investigation of Arlena Stuart’s mystery, for a rapt audience of suspects and bystanders. While the crime was rather convoluted in its execution, the motives were straightforward. Then there are the last several…

  • Agatha Christie and the Character of the Victim

    I’ve been on a Christie binge, and yet once more. I’m re-reading Evil Under the Sun while alternating 4.50 to Paddington and Dead Man’s Folly as evening viewing. Interspersed with The Magpie Murders, which is terrific, but moves along at a very stately pace. There’s a Japanese adaptation of 4.50 to Paddington that I’d love…

  • Christmas Mysteries: New and Old

    I have a fondness for publishers’ efforts to package a motley collection of mostly non-holiday themed stories under a a Christmas-y title, with perhaps 1-2 actual Yuletide tales. It’s a good way to put together what is effectively a miscellany of shorter works by authors who usually write novels. Since short stories can be ephemeral,…