The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

Tag: mystery

  • Agatha Christie’s Third Girl

    Agatha Christie was in her mid-seventies when she published Third Girl, an Hercule Poirot/Ariadne Oliver murder mystery (of sorts) set in London during the Swinging Sixties. The beatniks and starving artists in velvet pants are singled out for their peculiarities, and there’s a lot of tsk-tsk youth today chatter. But this book really has everything:…

  • Island Crime Fiction: From Scotland to Scylly

    I typically discover new (to me) crime writers in a range of ways: through newspaper and online reviews; from friends who foist favourites on me; and as fortuitous discoveries in Free Little Libraries. But this is my first time finding a terrifically interesting crime writer by happenstance, while arranging to rent her home during my…

  • The Many Labours of Hercules: From Agatha Christie’s Short Stories to David Suchet’s Penultimate Poirot

    Agatha Christie’s The Labours of Hercules is a set of short stories. The prologue starts with a friend, a classical scholar and Fellow at All Souls College, who asks Poirot about his first name, which is hardly apt, as well as that of his brother, Achille. Do I not resemble the classical hero?, asks Poirot,…