A school is a great place for a moody mystery. I’ve been drawn to this combination through the years, from “Buffy” and “Veronica Mars” episodes
Agatha Christie tends to fill her large British houses with lots of characters, the better to supply her story with suspects and victims. “Hickory Dickory Death”
Positioned between World War II and the Cold War, “They Came to Baghdad” (1951) is a contender for Agatha Christie’s elite spy adventure novel. It’s
Charles Osborne, who acted in this very play in 1956 and went on to become an opera critic, transfers Agatha Christie’s 1930 play “Black Coffee”
In what must’ve felt like a long overdue publication to U.S. readers, “The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories” finally gathered up the last (except
Agatha Christie tries to tie a dozen Hercule Poirot cases in with the Greek myth of “The Labors of Hercules” in her 1947 short-story collection
“The Golden Ball and Other Stories” (1971) isn’t the most deadly serious Agatha Christie short story collection. There’s barely a murder or even physical violence
Although published as a U.S. collection in 1951, “The Under Dog and Other Stories” takes us back to the early days of Poirot and Hastings’
Agatha Christie combines crime syndicates with a murder mystery in “At Bertram’s Hotel” (1965) in a manner similar to her spycraft-murder combo in “The Clocks”
“So Many Steps to Death” (1954, also published as “Destination Unknown”) is one of the most different Agatha Christie novels. It’s one of her sweeping