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‘Agatha Christie’s Poirot’ Season 1 (1989) launches an icon

It took 13 years after Agatha Christie’s death until we got the definitive version of Hercule Poirot on screen, with David Suchet starring in the

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Blake’s ‘Buffy’ books continue with ‘One Girl in All the World’

With her second “Frankie the Vampire Slayer” entry, “One Girl in All the World” (January, hardcover), Kendare Blake again delivers a novel that’s partly appealing

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Preston & Child go back in time for ‘Cabinet of Dr. Leng’

Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child have sent Agent Pendergast and other characters to many parts of the globe, but for “The Cabinet of Dr. Leng”

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‘Sleeping Murder’ (1976) a relaxing throwback mystery

“Sleeping Murder” (October 1976), which Agatha Christie (1890-January 1976) wrote mid-career with the purposeful intent of having it published after her death, is like a

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‘The Ruins’ (2006, 2008) a creepy exercise in fatalism

On this re-read, I often flashed back to my first experience of Scott Smith’s “The Ruins” (2006). I vividly recalled details such as a dog

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‘My So-Called Life’ (1994-95) probes hearts, minds of ’90s teens

W.G. Snuffy Walden’s “My So-Called Life” (1994-95, ABC) theme song encapsulates the series, which itself encapsulates 1994-95. An ominous opening tone calls to mind dark

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The age-old ‘My So-Called Life’ debate: Jordan or Brian?

I went into my rewatch of “My So-Called Life” (1994-95) with one of the show’s most famous questions on my mind: Jordan or Brian? The

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‘Curtain’ (1975) impressively drops on Poirot’s career

Death is such a regular part of Agatha Christie novels that you’d be hard-pressed to find one that doesn’t find someone biting the dust. But

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King stirs brew of tropes, imagination in ‘Fairy Tale’ (2022)

Stephen King goes into full fantasy adventure mode for “Fairy Tale” (September, hardcover), a 599-page doorstop he wrote during the height of the pandemic, driven

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T&T’s interplay makes ‘Postern of Fate’ (1973) readable

I somewhat dreaded reading and reviewing “Postern of Fate” (1973), Agatha Christie’s last-written novel. It’s a popular choice as her worst book, and I feared

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