7 h. ago Agatha Christie detectives join Mr Men world in new children’s books

Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple are back in a series for young readers

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7 h. ago Agatha Christie’s Poirot and Miss Marple join Mr Men and Little Miss universe

Detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple appear in a new series which reimagines some of Christie’s most well known stories.

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5 d. ago Hilarious BBC blunder as live performance by legendary band Pulp is wrongly subtitled with lines from Miss Marple

A SONG by Pulp was wrongly subtitled with lines from Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple in a BBC blunder. Phrases such as “Morning, Miss Marple. How’s the leg?” accompanied Jarvis Cocker. Hard-of-hearing viewers were baffled as the frontman belted out Spike Island at the Mercury Prize awards ceremony on Thursday night. Subtitles as he prowled the...

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1 week ago ‘Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery’ Director Rian Johnson Reveals Why Third Film Is Closer To An Agatha Christie Mystery — Contenders London

‘Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery’ Director Rian Johnson Reveals Why Third Film Is Closer To An Agatha Christie Mystery — Contenders London  Deadline

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1 week ago The Woman in Cabin 10 review – Keira Knightley thriller is Agatha Christie for people with limited attention spans

This murder mystery is just a lazy excuse for nice interiors, nice clothes, cheap thrills, and attractive people

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3 w. ago Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue review – nothing has given me greater joy this year

Packed with Agatha Christie-meets-Lost shenanigans, this ludicrous crime drama from Anthony Horowitz is a most perfect piece of televisual trash. Treasure it! We open, bright red Pulp Fiction-y letters tell us, on “Day Nine”. Not “Day One”! Intrigued? You betcha! We are in Los Tríos, Mexico – watching a woman watch the Mexican military police await delivery of nine bodies, to store in an isolated facility’s morgue. Which is fortuitous, because this is the beginning of a new thriller by Anthony Horowitz, called Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue (the title fits brilliantly). The series was originally developed for the short-form platform Quibi; but I thank whoever realised that this perfect piece of trash deserved a larger canvas and broader distribution, and gave it 45 minutes per episode (and, ultimately, to the BBC).I don’t know that anything has given me greater or purer joy this year. Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue is unabashed nonsense, without a trace of cynicism or guile in a w...

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