ALAN TYLER visits the Hampstead home of modernists, artists and spies. Continue reading
Tag Archives: Agatha Christie
Final Cut: No Room at the Inn (1948)
JONATHAN CALDER on a 1945 child-abuse case and the play and movie that it inspired. Continue reading
‘Mystery among the muffins’
Miss Marple doesn’t really belong in Swinging London, concludes ALWYN TURNER. Continue reading
Imperial fiction: One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
ALWYN TURNER on a 1940 Poirot novel that worries about the abuse of political power. Continue reading
Final Cut: Murder, She Said (1961)
SIMON MATTHEWS on Miss Marple, The Mousetrap and Margaret Rutherford. Continue reading
Imperial fiction: Golden Age detection 1
ALWYN TURNER reads some interwar detective novels by Agatha Christie and Margery Allingham. Continue reading
Imperial fiction: The Secret Adversary
ALWYN TURNER enjoys Agatha Christie’s anti-communist action thriller. Continue reading
‘Elephantinely elfish’: Monsieur Hanuad
ALWYN TURNER on A.E.W. Mason’s detective, the inspiration for Hercule Poirot. Continue reading
First notices: Part 2
Newspaper reviews of Wind in the Willows, Brave New World, Brighton Rock and others. Continue reading
