The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

Tag: mystery

  • 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…

  • P.D. James and Louise Penny

    “Perhaps Adam Dalgliesh is an idealized version of what I’d have liked to be if I’d been born a man.” P.D. James, quoted in an interview by Julian Symons, NY Times, 5 October 1986. “Almost always the idea for a book comes to me as a reaction to a particular place and setting. Sometimes it’s…

  • 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…