The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

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  • Murder on the Orient Express: From Page to Stage to the Screen

    A very young Jessica Chastain with David Morrissey in Agatha Christie’s Poirot: Murder on the Orient Express. My Christie re-read is zooming along this spring, and I’ve enjoyed the novels so much that I’ve added some Agatha Christie-themed sites to a trip next fall that will mostly focus on researching P.D. James. My stops will…

  • 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.…

  • 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…