Agatha Christie

The Evolution Of Detectives In Fiction

Max Allan Collins | Posted 05.08.2012

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Here are the authors and their creations who, in my view, changed the detective game.

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Agatha Christie Characters Become Americans

AP | Posted 02.29.2012

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SILVER SPRING, Md. -- Miss Marple, Hercule Poirot and other Agatha Christie characters are now under American ownership. Acorn Media Group announced ...

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The Grey Could Keep You Up All Night

Carole Mallory | Posted 03.26.2012

Complaint. Don't leave the theater once the credits come on. Ever. There is a tag ending here.

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35 Classic One-liners About Aging

John Blumenthal | Posted 02.03.2012

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"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work," said Woody Allen, "I want to achieve it through not dying."

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Found: An Unseen Miss Marple Story

Posted 11.21.2011

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Out this week, "Agatha Christie: Murder in the Making" is the second volume compiled from Agatha Christie's notes and letters based on 73 unpublished ...

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The Pera Palace Hotel, "Pearl of Istanbul" (PHOTOS)

Barry Yourgrau | Posted 10.22.2011

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The guest book here is heavy with potentates, prime ministers, and the likes of Garbo and Mata Hari, Hitchcock and Hemingway, and of course Agatha Christie, who wrote Murder on the Orient Express in Room 411 in the early '30's.

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Long-Lost Agatha Christie Telegram Found: What Did it Say?

Posted 10.05.2011

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Much information about writer Agatha Christie has been uncovered over the past few weeks, from her love of surfing to a riveting discovery made in Eng...

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Which Famous Female Author Loved To Surf?

John Curran | Posted 10.02.2011

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'Surfing looks perfectly easy. It isn't. I say no more. I got very angry and fairly hurled my plank from me. Nevertheless, I determined to return on the first possible opportunity and have another go.

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Time for a Good Book

Roger Fransecky | Posted 09.04.2011

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I confess to liking, collecting, sharing and savoring both mysteries and thrillers. My favorite sleuths are, like me, flawed and curious in an often dark, confusing and fallen world.

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Favorite Outdoor Reads

nytimes.com | Amy Goldwasser Is the Editor Of “Red: Teenage Girls in America Write on What Fires Up Their Lives Today.” Peter Arkle Recently Published the 57th Issue Of “Peter Arkle News.” | Posted 08.06.2011

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For many people, summer reading involves SPF, shirtlessness and bare feet in the grass. On a recent partly sunny Sunday afternoon on the Sheep Meadow ...

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Birthday Tribute: Albert Finney's Finest

John Farr | Posted 07.27.2011

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Finney cares a great deal about his work, but very little about publicity. Nominated five times for an Oscar, he has never once attended the ceremony.

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Huffpost Readers' Picks: What Book From Childhood Can't You Forget? (PHOTOS)

Posted 07.16.2011

Most of us remember that time in our childhood when we picked up a book that we just couldn't put down. Our imaginations were such that it transported...

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A Peek Inside Famous Writers’ Homes

flavorwire.com | Posted 07.05.2011

Read More: Ernest Hemingway, Brooklyn Heights, John Steinbeck, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Yukio Mishima, Gwendolyn Brooks, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Gertrude Stein, Truman Capote, Famous Writers' Homes, Agatha Christie, Norman Mailer, Books News

Last month, The New York Times ran a slideshow of Norman Mailer's Brooklyn Heights apartment, which will be up for sale shortly. This got us thinking ...

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Jennifer Garner Becoming An Old Spinster?

Posted 05.29.2011

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This beloved classic is getting a facelift. Quite literally. Disney has closed a deal for a big screen reboot of Agatha Christie's "Miss Marple" myst...

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Google Honors Agatha Christie With Doodle On British Homepage

The Guardian | Alison Flood | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Google doodle shows Poirot -- the only fictional character ever to receive a full-page obituary in the New York Times -- and a cast of characters ...

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What Guantanamo Detainees Are Reading

TIME | Posted 05.25.2011

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There's not a lot to look forward to if you're one of the 176 prisoners held in the U.S. detention facility at Guantánamo Bay -- no visits from loved...

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Agatha Christie's House of Lies

Jeff Klima | Posted 05.25.2011

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All this Stieg Larsson bashing around here these days has been cause celebre for me to grab my own torch and pitchfork. Now I, like some of y...

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Sweden's Population: 9 Million. Camilla Lackberg's Swedish Book Sales: 3 Million. Camilla Who? (VIDEO)

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 05.25.2011

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Nine million people live in Sweden. Camilla Läckberg has sold three million books there. She is, her publisher boasts, "the most profitable native author in Swedish history."

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P.D. James On The Enduring Appeal Of Detective Fiction

Telegraph | Sarah Crompton | Posted 05.25.2011

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The greatest mystery of detective fiction is why generations of readers have continued to read it in such huge numbers. Obviously, it is partly to do ...

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Top 10 African Crime Novels

The Guardian | Michael Stanley | Posted 05.25.2011

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The African crime writing duo pick the best books in their field, from established greats Agatha Christie and John Le Carré to newer names on the sce...

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ReelzChannel: Top Ten "Hazardous Cargo" Movies

Dan Persons | Posted 05.25.2011

For the ambitious music industry intern Aaron Green (Jonah Hill) in Get Him to the Greek, the task was supposedly easy: Escort a musician from London ...

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Inside The Inner Circle Of Mystery Writers

wowOwow | Lesley Stahl | Posted 05.25.2011

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Linda Fairstein grew up reading mysteries and loving them -- Agatha Christie, Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett -- but she became a prosecutor in New...

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A Sure-Fire Bestseller:Lincoln's Doctor's Dog

The Huffington Post | Tom Alderman | Posted 05.25.2011

Random House founder Bennett Cerf was reportedly asked how to write a best seller. The venerable editor's answer: Lincoln's Doctor's Dog. Seems Abe Li...

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DVDS: New Miss Marple Doesn't Slay Me and More

Michael Giltz | Posted 05.25.2011

The Soloist was oscar bair but no one was nibbling. Down on his luck Downey helps talented but homeless Foxx in this TV movie-ready story.

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Agatha Christie's Summer Home Opens Doors To The Public

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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LONDON — The English holiday home where Agatha Christie spent her summers and entertained guests with readings from her thrillers is opening to ...

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