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
We’ll never get another novel from Michael Crichton (1942-2008), unless another manuscript emerges from his old computer files as if by magic – as most
Peter Benchley wrote “Jaws” (1974) before the boom of shark literature and films — indeed, his book and the subsequent Steven Spielberg movie (1975) launched
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
In his new hardcover book “The Nineties,” Chuck Klosterman illustrates the nature of traditional network TV with a “Seinfeld” reference from 1992. Why would people
I’ve always had a thing about carnivals and fairs – the hot summer night, the neon, and the false promises coalesce into something bittersweet. The
“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