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| Agatha Christie The Mystery Reader Mystery Writers of America The Winchester Mystery House Murder Mysteries for you to solve Father Dowling Mysteries A and E Mysteries.Com One of my favourite places - you can see an interview with David Suchet (Poirot).... Mysteries.Net.Com |
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| Poirot, five foot four, with his egg-shaped head carried a little to one side, his magnificent (and suspiciously black) moustache, his patent leather shoes (and hair), his dapper dress, his accent, the endless glasses of sirop de cassis, and the eyes that flash greenly in moments of excitement, has the ability, matched only by John Dickson Carr's Dr Gideon Fell and Sir Henry Merrivale, to appear simultaneously as a figure of fun and a figure of menace. Poirot does not merely boast about his prowess (though boast he does), he delivers, solving some of the most mind-boggling mysteries, and fingering some of the least suspected persons in the history of the genre. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hercule Poirot Novels Hercule Poirot |
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| Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie (1891-1976), English novelist, who was a prolific writer of mystery stories. She was born in Torquay. The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920) began her career. Her mysteries are noted for clever and surprising twists of plot and for the creation of two unconventional fictional detectives, Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. Poirot is the hero of many of her works, including the classic The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926) and Curtain (1975) in which the detective dies. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Her first marriage, to Archibald Christie, ended in divorce in 1928. In 1930 while travelling in the Middle East, Christie met the noted English archaeologist Sir Max Mallowan. They were married that year, and from that time on Christie accompanied her husband on annual trips to Iraq and Syria. She used the expeditions as material for Murder in Mesopotamia (1930), Death on the Nile (1937) , and Appointment with Death (1938). Christie's plays include The Mousetrap, produced continuously in London since 1952, and Witness for the Prosecution (1953; film 1957)... for which she received the New York Drama Critic's Circle Award for 1954-1955. Her stories have been made into a number of television series and films, most centering on her characters Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. In 1971, she was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire |
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| For over a decade, Inspector Morse has been Britain's highest-rated detective show. 'I like... that Morse is not always right," John Thaw (pictured left) says, "So that even when he thinks he's cracked it, the viewers can't be sure." The Oxford based Inspector first appeared in a series of books by Colin Dexter, who's been an on-screen extra in almost every episode of the series. Another hidden bit of trivia; the show's theme music spells out Morse's name in Morse Code. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Inspector Morse details Mysteries .... Inspector Morse |
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| Angela Lansbury -"Murder She Wrote" |
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