Search Results for "Agatha Christie": 23 results
Christie, Agatha: 4.50 From Paddington (radio play): 4.50 From Paddington is the Agatha Christie novel in which a friend of Miss Marple's sees a murder on a passing train, and Miss Marple gets her friend Lucy Eyelesbarrow to go undercover at a local country house to look...
Christie, Agatha: ABC Murders, The (radio play): In The ABC Murders, Hercule Poirot gets a taunting letter warning him to look out for Andover on a certain date, signed "ABC." Of course, someone is murdered on that date, and an ABC Railway Guide is found near the...
Christie, Agatha: After the Funeral (radio play): When I started listening to Agatha Christie's After the Funeral, a Hercule Poirot story, I thought perhaps the BBC was experimenting with in medias res. Well, I was starting in the middle, but because the files had been mislabeled, not...
Christie, Agatha: Appointment with Death (play): I'd listened to Agatha Christie's Appointment with Death as a radio play and been badly puzzled by the ending, because I thought the ending was different. A commenter going by "creepygirl" pointed out that Christie adapted the novel for stage,...
Christie, Agatha: Appointment with Death (radio play): When I was listening to the BBC adaptation of Agatha Christie's Poirot novel Appointment with Death, I was certain I knew the solution, from reading the book years ago. However, I was completely and utterly wrong: I must have been...
Christie, Agatha: Body in the Library, The (radio play): Another 90-minute BBC radio adaptation of a Miss Marple mystery, this time The Body in the Library. As the title indicates, a young woman's body is found on the library hearth of an old friend of Miss Marple's. I wasn't...
Christie, Agatha: Caribbean Mystery, A (radio play): Since we first met Mr. Rafiel of Nemesis in A Carribean Mystery, I listed to that next. This is the one where an old bore asks Miss Marple if she wants to see a photograph of a murderer, stops before...
Christie, Agatha: Death on the Nile (radio play): Another BBC radio play, this time directly recorded from BBC 7's Listen Again page a few weeks ago, was Agatha Christie's Death on the Nile. This was a bit of a gamble in terms of my time: I read...
Christie, Agatha: Evil Under the Sun (radio play): Another BBC radio play, Agatha Christie's Evil Under the Sun, again with John Moffatt as Poirot. I think I must have re-read this one fairly recently, because I remembered enough of the plot to spot every twist just before it...
Christie, Agatha: Five Little Pigs (radio play): Agatha Christie's Five Little Pigs presents Hercule Poirot with a particular challenge: find out the truth of a sixteen-year-old murder. Amyas Crale was poisoned and his wife convicted; shortly before she died in prison, she wrote their daughter a letter...
Christie, Agatha: Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side, The (radio play): Today's 90-minute Miss Marple mystery, via the BBC, was The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side, which is much more like it. There were clues when and where they were supposed to be, interesting and sympathetic characters, and even a...
Christie, Agatha: Moving Finger, The (radio play): Another Agatha Christie novel adapted for radio, this time as a five-parter (2.5 hours): The Moving Finger, in which a friend calls Miss Marple in after a spate of poison-pen letters results in a death. Judging by the reviews on...
Christie, Agatha: Murder at the Vicarage (radio play, text): Agatha Christie radio plays are well-suited for car trips to Massachusetts; I listened to Murder on the Orient Express on the way there, and to Murder at the Vicarage on the way back. This was the first Miss Marple novel:...
Christie, Agatha: Murder in Mesopotamia (radio play): Agatha Christie's Murder in Mesopotamia is a Hercule Poirot mystery with a non-Poirot first-person narrator, Amy Leatheran, a nurse engaged to keep a nervous archaeologist's wife company. Her patient has been receiving threatening letters signed with her dead first husband's...
Christie, Agatha: Murder is Announced, A (radio play): The announcement in Agatha Christie's A Murder is Announced is in a local paper; Miss Marple is vacationing in the area, reads the paper, and slightly knows the young man who ends up dead at the appointed time and place,...
Christie, Agatha: Murder on the Orient Express (radio play): Another BBC adaptation of an Agatha Christie novel, this time Murder on the Orient Express (via my local library, which had it on CD). You can call this contrived all you like (as I recall, Randall Garrett does, through one...
Christie, Agatha: Mystery of the Blue Train, The: Library book sales are a good thing. I picked up The Mystery of the Blue Train, by Agatha Christie, at our library's bag sale last month, and then just days later discovered that the radio play version of it cast...
Christie, Agatha: Nemesis (radio play): I picked Agatha Christie's Nemesis nearly at random of my "audiobooks" playlist; I'd recorded it a while ago and didn't remember a thing about the premise. So it was a nice surprise to find a strong opening hook: Jason Rafiel,...
Christie, Agatha: Pocket Full of Rye, A (radio play): I listened to Agatha Christie's A Pocket Full of Rye as a 90-minute BBC radio play. It's a Miss Marple mystery about deaths that appear to fit a nursery rhyme's pattern. June Whitfield is a perfectly good Miss Marple, and...
Christie, Agatha: Sittaford Mystery, The (radio play): I picked a radio adaptation of Agatha Christie's The Sittaford Mystery because it was referenced in To Say Nothing of the Dog, though not in a way that helped me solve it. This opens with a seance that communicates that...
Christie, Agatha: Sleeping Murder (radio play): In Agatha Christie's Sleeping Murder, a woman buys a house and then slowly remembers that she lived there as a child . . . when she may have been the sole witness to an unknown murder. This is a very linear mystery, with...
Christie, Agatha: Taken at the Flood (radio play): Agatha Christie's Taken at the Flood is a Hercule Poirot story set during and after World War II. Gordon Cloade is killed in the Blitz a few weeks after marrying a young woman, Rosaleen, and changing his will to leave...
Christie, Agatha: They Do It with Mirrors (radio play): In Agatha Christie's They Do It with Mirrors, Miss Marple is asked to go check on an old friend Carrie-Louise, whose sister fears she is in danger. Miss Marple goes to stay at Carrie-Louise's home, which is on the grounds...