More from AudioFile Magazine for Christie Week by Jemma

Our friends at AudioFile have given us some more reviews for us to share with you. If you like the sound (no pun intended) of what you read, then head on over to their site where you can also download a free Christie short story The Case of the Missing Will (if you are based in the US) and listen to an interview with Hugh Fraser and  Rosalind Ayres (everyone).

THE ABC MURDERS, by Agatha Christie, read by Hugh Fraser will be familiar to listeners from the excellent PBS “Mystery” adaptations of Hercule Poirot novels in which he played the ...

• Posted 18 September 2009 at 2:51p.m. GMT
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Adapting Christie, or, How I Learned to Start Complaining and Hate the Changes by Chris_Chan

Fandom is a strange yet wonderful phenomenon.  Some professed “fans” of Agatha Christie are content to read the occasional Christie novel once in a while, when they have the time.  Other fans feel compelled to read every book that Christie ever wrote.  Still other fans seek out every movie and television adaptation of Christie novels ever filmed.  Some fans with the time and money to travel actually visits locations from Christie’s life and novels.  Then, there are fans like me, who want to help preserve, perpetuate, and polish Christie’s legacy.

Ever since the first film adaptations of Christie ...

• Posted 2 September 2009 at 1:45p.m. GMT
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How did Nadine Boynton know about the Orient Express Case in Appointment with Death by Chris_Chan

How did Nadine Boynton know about the Orient Express case in Appointment With Death?

By Chris Chan

(SPOILER WARNING!  THIS ESSAY CONTAINS POTENTIAL SPOILERS FOR MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS, CARDS ON THE TABLE, AND THE MURDER OF ROGER ACKROYD.  READ WITH CAUTION.)

In Appointment with Death, the suspect Nadine Boynton asks Poirot to cease his investigation of her mother-in-law’s death, claiming that bringing the killer to justice would further destroy the lives of those who had suffered under the twisted matriarch’s mental sadism.  In order to justify her pleas for Poirot to abandon this case, she cites ...

• Posted 6 July 2009 at 6:58a.m. GMT
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CHRISTIE ADAPTATIONS ON THE RADIO by Chris_Chan

The movie, stage, and television adaptations of Christie’s work are well known and often discussed amongst Christie fans.  A fourth medium, radio, is much more obscure and often ignored.  Two of the major overviews of Christie’s work and adaptations of it, Dick Riley and Pam McAllister’s The New Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Agatha Christie, and Dennis Sanders and Len Lovallo’s The Agatha Christie Companion, discuss the movies, plays, and television adaptations, but both ignore the radio dramas.

This is a terrible shame, because some of the best and most interesting adaptations– as well as some ...

• Posted 14 May 2009 at 6:52a.m. GMT
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Did Achille Poirot really exist? by Chris_Chan

SPOILER WARNING!  THIS ESSAY CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR THE BIG FOUR AND CURTAIN.  DO NOT READ THIS ESSAY IF YOU HAVE NOT READ THESE BOOKS

We know very little about Hercule Poirot’s family life, and the few details that Poirot reveals may not be reliable, since he often makes up details about his wife to advance his investigations.  For example, in one story in Poirot Investigates, Poirot lies and claims to have a sick wife in order to gain entrance into an apartment.  There are a few references to his career as a Belgian police officer, but he rarely speaks ...

• Posted 6 April 2009 at 9:38a.m. GMT
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