Agatha Christie
Vicars, tennis and a black sleuth… it would be a mystery if the BBC hadn’t updated Agatha Christie | Martha Gill
Murder is Easy provoked outrage but the Queen of Crime was in safe hands in a fresh adaptation for a modern audience
Martha Gill
31, Dec, 2023 @8:00 AM
Perfect escapism: why cosy crime stories are a Christmas essential
From Agatha Christie to Richard Osman, playful, quirky mysteries are particularly appealing at this time of year
Oskar Jensen
23, Dec, 2023 @11:00 AM
Agatha Christie’s family welcome diversity in new BBC adaptation
Author’s great-grandson suggests she would have approved of changing lead’s ethnicity in Murder Is Easy
Rachel Hall
11, Dec, 2023 @12:01 AM
Dagger awards adds categories for ‘cosy crime’ and psychological thrillers
The annual Crime Writers’ Association awards wanted to acknowledge the changing tastes of readers ‘looking for the next thrill, the next murderous innovation’
David Barnett
03, Nov, 2023 @4:19 PM
A Haunting in Venice review – Branagh improves on his Agatha Christie formula
With smart casting and suitably murky Venice setting, the director improves on last year’s Death on the Nile, though his moustache-fondling Poirot remains the same
Wendy Ide
16, Sep, 2023 @2:00 PM
Agatha Christie statue takes seat on bench in Oxfordshire town
Memorial by Ben Twiston-Davies is sited in Wallingford, where the mystery writer lived for more than 40 years
Ella Creamer
11, Sep, 2023 @11:45 AM
A Haunting in Venice review – Branagh’s Agatha Christie whodunnit given horror makeover
No amount of spooky jump-scares can save Kenneth Branagh’s latest Christie adaptation, which wastes its atmospheric setting and stellar cast
Peter Bradshaw
09, Sep, 2023 @11:01 PM
Jane Birkin: a tremendous screen presence with a gift for creative collaboration | Peter Bradshaw
Birkin made a sensational impact in Blow-Up, and went on to become a classy performer for a number of major French directors – notably Godard and Agnès Varda
Peter Bradshaw
16, Jul, 2023 @5:22 PM
Crosswords that are too puzzling and an Agatha Christie mystery
We consider clues that are harder than they were supposed to be and Hugh Laurie’s TV adaptation of Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?
Alan Connor
08, May, 2023 @11:16 AM
The week in TV: Obsession; Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?; Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields; Colin from Accounts – review
The sexed-up Obsession is unlikely to be anyone’s turn-on; Hugh Laurie delivers Agatha Christie 101; and an absorbing documentary makes you wonder how Brooke Shields held on to her sanity
Barbara Ellen
16, Apr, 2023 @8:30 AM
Agatha Christie novels reworked to remove potentially offensive language
Poirot and Miss Marple mysteries have passages edited by sensitivity readers for latest HarperCollins editions
Rachel Hall
26, Mar, 2023 @1:36 PM
Top 10 criminal duos in fiction | Peter Swanson
Authors from James M Cain to Patricia Highsmith show how partners in crime can really bring out the worst in each other
Peter Swanson
01, Mar, 2023 @12:00 PM
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