“Hercule Poirot’s Christmas” (1938) is a solid book with one of the most unlikely types of killers in Agatha Christie’s catalog, but it’s a little
“Marple: Twelve New Mysteries” (2022) – the first officially published prose about Miss Jane Marple written by someone other than Agatha Christie – should please
Hercule Poirot uses his knowledge of human psychology to solve crimes almost as much as he uses physical evidence. In her Christie estate-commissioned Poirot novels,
After adapting two Agatha Christie classics – “Murder on the Orient Express” and “Death on the Nile” – with an edgier, darker version of Poirot,
Janet Morgan’s “Agatha Christie: A Biography” (1984) is the estate-approved life story of the author, and still stands as the most definitive. I’d recommend reading
Nearly a century after Agatha Christie invented Hercule Poirot, another writer was given the go-ahead to put words in his mouth for the first time,
Hercule Poirot is known for using his understanding of human psychology to solve murders, and never is this more extreme than in “The Mystery of
A mystery novel can go off the rails if the author piles on too many implausibilities at the end. Sophie Hannah, in her second Christie-estate-approved
The early 1980s was a proving ground for British TV producers, with their prime audience being the Agatha Christie estate. Christie didn’t care for unfaithful
In “Agatha Christie: An Autobiography” (1977), Christie famously doesn’t go deep into analyzing her novels or the stories behind them. That might’ve been frustrating in