The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

Tag: hercule-poirot

  • Sophie Hannah’s Closed Casket: The Challenges of Re-Creating Christie for the 21st Century

    As I was reading Closed Casket (mostly with pleasure) last night, it occurred to me that my dissatisfaction with Sophie Hannah’s take on Hercule Poirot stems from a possibly intractable problem. In short, Hannah is a much better writer than Christie. And a very good writer trying to mimic a worse one produces challenges. I’m…

  • 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.…