Tag Archives: Agatha Christie

Review: Nine Man’s Murder

Posted on August 5, 2017 by Nalkarj

Regular readers of this blog (and thank you immeasurably for that!) know that I don’t usually do reviews. That’s mostly because I simply don’t have the patience for them (oh, how my mind wanders!), which is why my hat is … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Reviews | Tagged Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None, Eric Keith, Nine Man's Murder, Review, Ten Little Indians, Terrible | 8 Comments

Open Question

Posted on August 1, 2017 by Nalkarj

I do intend soon to post something that’s more than filler, folks, but until then… What books do you know that are comparable to Christie’s And Then There Were None (Ten Little Indians)? On the IMDb v2.0 boards, one poster … Continue reading →

Posted in Filler, Musings | Tagged Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None, Filler, John Dickson Carr, Musings, Open Question, Raven King, Ten Little Indians, The Hollow Man | 2 Comments

Is ‘Lord Edgware Dies’ Fair Play?

Posted on June 26, 2017 by Nalkarj

Originally posted on Golden Age of Detective Fiction Forum:
I’ve recently reread Christie’s “Lord Edgware Dies” (aka “Thirteen at Dinner”) and was again troubled by the question of whether one of the key moments of misdirection is fair. Hastings has…

Posted in Musings, Reviews | Tagged Agatha Christie, Captain Hastings, Fair Play, GAD, Hercule Poirot, Jane Wilkinson, Lord Edgware Dies, Musings, Question, Thoughts | 4 Comments

“Murder,” She Spelled Out Real Plain

Posted on June 14, 2016 by Nalkarj

Of the large number of TV detective shows that longtime friends and collaborators William Link and Richard Levinson created, Ellery Queen (1975-1976) and Columbo (1968-1978; 1989-2003) seem (to me) to be the best. Columbo, of course, is the (far) longer running and the better known–and, … Continue reading →