The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

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  • 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…

  • 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…