Agatha Christie’s Grade II listed Winterbrook House is for sale for £2.75m

The much-loved former home of crime writer Agatha Christie has gone on the market for £2.75million.  Winterbrook House in Wallingford, Oxfordshire, was the home of wordsmith Christie and her archaeologist husband Max Mallowan for more than 40 years. The beautiful, Grade-II listed property was the birthplace of her acclaimed British murder mysteries Death on the Nile, The Body in the Library … Read more

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: An arsenic murder in Paradise – Agatha Christie would be proud

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews last night’s TV: An arsenic murder in Paradise – Agatha Christie would be proud By Christopher Stevens for the Daily Mail Published: 01:46 GMT, 15 January 2021 | Updated: 01:46 GMT, 15 January 2021 Death In Paradise Rating: Robson Green: Walking Coast To Coast Rating: There is nothing more British, declared Ralf … Read more

New coin marks 100 years since publication of Agatha Christie’s first crime novel

There’s no mystery about who this celebrates! New coin marks 100 years since publication of Agatha Christie’s first crime novel The Mysterious Affair At Styles introduced Hercule Poirot to the world in 1920 The coin is available on the Royal Mint’s website, priced from £10 to £1,115 The novel ushered in a golden age of … Read more

New coin marks 100 years since publication of Agatha Christie’s first crime novel

There’s no mystery about who this celebrates! New coin marks 100 years since publication of Agatha Christie’s first crime novel The Mysterious Affair At Styles introduced Hercule Poirot to the world in 1920 The coin is available on the Royal Mint’s website, priced from £10 to £1,115 The novel ushered in a golden age of … Read more

Follow Poirot on the trail of Agatha Christie’s serial killer on the English Riviera

Book me in: Follow Poirot on the trail of Agatha Christie’s serial killer on the English Riviera In the ABC Murders, Christie uses real place names on the English Riviera  Among them is Elberry Cove, where a body is found in the classic whodunnit Also featured is Torquay’s palm-fringed promenade and its Princess Gardens  By … Read more

Did Agatha Christie ‘borrow’ the plot for her acclaimed novel?

Did Agatha Christie ‘borrow’ the plot for one of her acclaimed novels? Translator discovers similar plot twist to The Murder of Roger Ackroyd published in Norway SEVENTEEN years earlier SPOILERS: A translator has discovered an early English translation of a novel Stein Riverton’s Jernvognen was published in 1909 and in English in 1923 Previously thought of … Read more

Did Agatha Christie ‘borrow’ the plot for her acclaimed novel?

Did Agatha Christie ‘borrow’ the plot for one of her acclaimed novels? Translator discovers similar plot twist to The Murder of Roger Ackroyd published in Norway SEVENTEEN years earlier SPOILERS: A translator has discovered an early English translation of a novel Stein Riverton’s Jernvognen was published in 1909 and in English in 1923 Previously thought of … Read more

DEBORAH ROSS: Agatha Christie purists will be livid but I’m intrigued. Ish

The Pale Horse BBC1, Sunday Rating: Home Channel 4, Wednesday Rating: The screenwriter Sarah Phelps has been taking liberties with Agatha Christie murder mysteries for quite some time. Plots are revised. Characters are redrawn or may be ejected. Language is updated – here we had one ‘raddled arse’ and also one ‘F*** off!’ – and … Read more