CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews last night’s TV: An arsenic murder in Paradise – Agatha Christie would be proud By Christopher Stevens for the Daily Mail Published: 01:46 GMT, 15 January 2021 | Updated: 01:49 GMT, 15 January 2021 Death In Paradise Rating: Robson Green: Walking Coast To Coast Rating: There is nothing more British, declared Ralf … Read more
There’s no mystery about who this celebrates! New coin marks 100 years since publication of Agatha Christie’s first crime novel The Mysterious Affair At Styles introduced Hercule Poirot to the world in 1920 The coin is available on the Royal Mint’s website, priced from £10 to £1,115 The novel ushered in a golden age of … Read more
N-word is removed from Agatha Christie’s Ten Little N****** murder mystery in France following request from the author’s great-grandson Agatha Christie’s book And Then There Were None was originally published in the UK using the title Ten Little N****** after a minstrel song UK dropped the title in 1980s, but it is still used in … Read more
Book me in: Follow Poirot on the trail of Agatha Christie’s serial killer on the English Riviera In the ABC Murders, Christie uses real place names on the English Riviera Among them is Elberry Cove, where a body is found in the classic whodunnit Also featured is Torquay’s palm-fringed promenade and its Princess Gardens By … Read more
Did Agatha Christie ‘borrow’ the plot for one of her acclaimed novels? Translator discovers similar plot twist to The Murder of Roger Ackroyd published in Norway SEVENTEEN years earlier SPOILERS: A translator has discovered an early English translation of a novel Stein Riverton’s Jernvognen was published in 1909 and in English in 1923 Previously thought of … Read more
The Pale Horse BBC1, Sunday Rating: Home Channel 4, Wednesday Rating: The screenwriter Sarah Phelps has been taking liberties with Agatha Christie murder mysteries for quite some time. Plots are revised. Characters are redrawn or may be ejected. Language is updated – here we had one ‘raddled arse’ and also one ‘F*** off!’ – and … Read more