Agatha Christie
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Love From A Stranger (1937)
Love from a Stranger is an early (1937), film adaptation of one of Agatha Christie’s short stories, Philomel Cottage. The short story told of a woman who wins quite a large amount of money on a French lottery. Intending to travel, she puts her flat up for rent, and is promptly swept off her feet by the handsome stranger who is interested in renting her flat. They marry and move to a idyllic cottage in the middle of nowhere, seemingly to live ‘happily ever after’ in a life of bliss. But her new husband is not all he seems, and has a few shocking secrets of his own. The film…
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Stylish Television: Death On The Nile (2004)
Death on the Nile is one of the most iconic of all Agatha Christie novels, the deadly love triangle featuring a beautiful heiress, a handsome but penniless husband, and his jilted lover as all the ingredients that make the very best of murder mysteries. It has been filmed twice for the silver screen, both of the films being star studded affairs that feature great performances, beautiful settings and exquisite costumes. I have blogged about both of these other versions in a series of reviews (you can find the posts here, and here.) Today I turn my attention to the small screen version which featured David Suchet as Poirot, and actually…
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A Christie For Christmas 2024
Once upon a time, well, in the 20th century at least, there was the festive tradition of ‘A Christie For Christmas‘.Each year, starting in the 1950’s. Agatha Christie wrote a new book that would be published in time for the Christmas market, and so the tradition of ‘ A Christie For Christmas’ began. It’s a tradition that I still follow, always having a new edition of a Christie classic to add to my collection, even though I have already read all the stories many times over. If you are about to start your own collection, or if you want to gift ‘ A Christie for Christmas’ this year, a good…
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Stylish Films: Murder In Three Acts
Peter Ustinov is one of my favourite Poirot’s, and his first two Poirot films, Death on the Nile and Evil Under the Sun, are probably my favourite Agatha Christie film adaptations, and are traditional Christmas viewing in my house. It is a less known fact, however, that there were further Ustinov as Poirot adaptations during the 1980’s. These included Appointment with Death, a Michael Winner film, and also the TV movies, Dead Man’s Folly, Thirteen at Dinner, and Murder in Three Acts. Yesterday I finally got to watch Murder in Three Acts and rather enjoyed it. Murder in Three Acts is better known as Three Act Tragedy, and is a…
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The Agatha Christie Gallery At The Torquay Museum
I have wanted to visit the Torquay Museum for many years now, and this year, I finally got my chance. My interest in the Torquay Museum is, of course, linked to Agatha Christie. The Torquay Museum is the only museum in the UK with a permanent, dedicated, Agatha Christie gallery. Agatha was born in Torquay and her affection Devon in general, and the towns of the English Riviera in particular, never faded, her holiday home Greenway was in nearby Galmpton. This museum is one of the highlights on the Agatha Christie trail that takes in key sites in the town related to the author, although, it has to be said,…
