Tag: sophie-hannah
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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…
