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Dame Agatha and Her Orient Express
Susan Vaughan here. Seeing Kenneth Branagh’s new film version of Murder on the Orient Express prompted me to reread Agatha Christie’s original 1934 novel. For the uninitiated, the story as written and the 2017 film are both set aboard the … Continue reading
Why’d They Have to Go and CHANGE Things?
What do the following characters have in common besides the fact that they are all detectives in mystery fiction? Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, Marjorie Allingham’s Albert Campion, Dorothy L. Sayers’ Lord … Continue reading
Posted in Kaitlyn's Posts
Tagged adapations, Agatha Christie, Aurora Teagarden, Charlaine Harris, Fixer Upper Mysteries, Hallmark Movies and Mysteries, Joanne Fluke, Kaitlyn Dunnett, Kate Carlisle, Kathy Lynn Emerson, Kerry Greenwood, mystery movies, mystery series, Phryne Fisher, Sherlock Holmes
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Mystery Loves Company
Dorothy Cannell: A few weeks ago a friend from England came to visit and gave me, perhaps in hope of breakfast in bed, a page from The Times, Monday October 3, 2016 written by David Sanderson under the headline “And Then … Continue reading
The Waldoboro Public Library
Dorothy Cannell: Some years ago I was talking with a friend who had moved to the U.S. from England as an adult, as I had done. Our conversation revolved around the strong pull that the country of our birth and upbringing … Continue reading
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Tagged Agatha Christie, Dorothy Cannell, Miss Marple, Waldoboro Public Library
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Tuning The Ear
Dorothy Cannell: For the past several years I have been focusing much of my mystery reading on golden oldies in the tradition of Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers, Josephine Tey, Georgette Heyer, Patricia Wentworth, etc.. The reason – I enjoy them … Continue reading
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