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Back to SearchA Hercule Poirot Amuse-Bouche: The Case of the Missing Will by Agatha Christie
Episode 25
It isn't often we're more critical than adoring of both a Christie story and its adaptation, but that seems to be the case here. I guess you could sa…
8 years, 11 months ago
And Then There Were 57: The Murder at the Vicarage (I.e. Our First Miss Marple!) by Agatha Christie
Episode 24
Introducing… Miss Jane Marple! We could not be more thrilled to have reached, at long last, Dame Agatha's most celebrated amateur detective. Join us …
9 years ago
A Hercule Poirot Amuse-Bouche: The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman by Agatha Christie
Episode 23
This one is a comely little Christie puzzle that is definitely not going to win any awards for ingenuity, but it's pleasant enough to read. And to di…
9 years ago
A Hercule Poirot Amuse-Bouche: The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim by Agatha Christie
Episode 22
This week's pleasing Poirot puzzle is noteworthy for a few reasons: 1) it features Agatha Christie's recitation of the different ways a person might …
9 years ago
And Then There Were 58: The Seven Dials Mystery by Agatha Christie
Episode 21
Join us as we frantically dig our way out of the grand old estate of Chimneys (last visited in The Secret of), like cartoon convicts shoveling our wa…
9 years ago
A Hercule Poirot Amuse-Bouche: The Kidnapped Prime Minister by Agatha Christie
Episode 20
This one gets pretty political! (Because if there's one thing we're missing these days, it's politics....) However, it's at least OLD politics (also …
9 years, 1 month ago
The Witness for the Prosecution: An Agatha Christie Classic
Episode 19
Back in 1925 Agatha Christie published a short story called "Traitor Hands," which would go on to spawn a successful play and several film adaptation…
9 years, 1 month ago
And Then There Were 59: The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie
Episode 18
Tell people you're reading a Christie novel set on a train--a Poirot, no less--and they'll almost definitely think you're reading Murder on The Orien…
9 years, 1 month ago
Gone Girl: The Notorious Real-Life Disappearance of Agatha Christie
Episode 17
We're going true-crime for this one… or is that true-hoax? Sometimes truth really is stranger than fiction, and Agatha Christie's real-life disappear…
9 years, 2 months ago
A Hercule Poirot Amuse-Bouche: The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan by Agatha Christie
Episode 16
Put on your thinking cap and solve this bare-bones locked-room logic puzzle with us. Then discard your thinking cap and revel in the theater-filled a…
9 years, 2 months ago