Teresa Reviews “Murder in Mesopotamia” (2002) in the fourth episode of our podcast! Now coming out every Monday. And just a reminder that these reviews are SPOILER HEAVY so don’t listen if you don’t want to know whodunnit! Teresa and Bill Peschel from Peschel Press watch and review the David Suchet Poirot “Murder in Mesopotamia” […]
Agatha Christie seems to be undergoing a mini-revival of sorts. Last year, we had Kenneth Branaugh’s all-star version of “Murder on the Orient Express” (in my top 2 of OE movies, vying neck-and-neck with David Suchet’s). We saw this in the theater, because that’s the best way to tell Hollywood to bring us more movies […]
Hey Bill, what do you think of that new Agatha Christie biography reviewed in The Wall Street Journal? Without having read it, I can tell you that it’s a good family-authorized book with all the pluses and minuses that it implies. That’s because “Agatha Christie: A Mysterious Life,” was published in 2006 as “Agatha Christie: […]
Agatha Christie caught a break early in her career when her second novel “The Secret Adversary” was syndicated in American newspapers. Yes, American newspapers published fiction – real fictional stories in addition to the usual collection of fake, pseudo-fake, trendy, and actual facts. American newspapers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, American newspapers […]
This past month, film critics and bloggers were treated to the first look at the Kenneth Branagh Murder on the Orient Express. Like the 1974 movie, it’s stylish, mostly faithful to the book and featuring an all-star cast including Johnny Depp, Daisy Ridley, Michelle Pfeiffer, Penélope Cruz, Josh Gad, Willem Dafoe, Judi Dench, and Derek […]
The Kenneth Branaugh Orient Express remake made Twitter recently, but in a way that had nothing to do with the movie. It seems that reporters these days are not trained to do any research before opening their mouths or sending a tweet. Back in my days at journalism school, we were taught the unofficial motto […]
The International Agatha Christie Festival is in various venues in and around Torquay, Sept. 11-20. The latest Agatha Christie news will appear here with the most recent item at the top. News and reviews about Dorothy L. Sayers and other women mystery novelists will appear as well. Kenneth Branagh boards Murder on the Orient Express […]