Do you love Agatha Christie? As a mystery author, I've spent time reading her books and watching the movies made from them. Studying Agatha Christie can only help an author who deals with killers, red herrings, clues and pacing. I met this week's author at Malice Domestic, a mystery conference in Maryland, and even though I had no room in my suitcase, had to pick up a copy of her book, Agatha Christie, She Watched. Since then it has had a prominent place on my bookshelf and I am slowly getting through the movies Teresa Peschel researched. It's like a masterclass on Agatha Christie, and great for a dark and stormy night. Agatha Christie, She Watched is a big, well illustrated book, and worth every inch it will take on your book shelf.

Care to match wits with Hercule Poirot? Share tea and gossip with Miss Marple? Chase spies with Tommy and Tuppence? "Agatha Christie, She Watched" will introduce you to must-see movies (and must-avoid) dogs that prove Agatha's genius depicting the hopeful and dark sides of human nature. These movies will tantalize you, mystify you, and make you laugh at the folly of humanity.

Teresa Peschel watched and reviewed 201 adaptations, from the German silent movie "Adventures, Inc." (1929) to "See How They Run" and "Why Didn't They Ask Evans" (2022). Each film was rated for fidelity to the original material and its overall quality. Each review takes up two pages and comes with six cast photos, list of major actors, and known film locations. Foreign movies with English subtitles from India, France, Russia, and Japan are included. We include eight movies in which the fictional Agatha Christie solves murder mysteries, debates Poirot, battles a space wasp (in Doctor Who), and plots to kill her husband's mistress.

“Agatha Christie, She Watched” is the only comprehensive collection of reviews about Christie adaptations. Use it to find the movies made from the novels you love, fill in your movie collection or host an Agatha Christie festival of your own.

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Would you ever climb into that box magician's have and then let them saw you in half? It's just an illusion, right? Or is it? This week we're heading to New Jersey for a little magic on Halloween in Zig Zag Girl. A person could really get sawed in half in one of those boxes, you're thinking. fuggedaboutit already. This week's podcast is all about a haunted magic show.

Synopsis

Zigzag Girl, by Ruth Knafo Setton, is a twisty contemporary mystery with a touch of magic, set in Atlantic City and the eerie New Jersey Pine Barrens. Lucy Moon, a brilliant young magician with a mysterious past, works in the town’s theatre, staging performances of enchantment and conjure. But one night, during the ‘Sawing a Woman in Half’ trick, Lucy discovers her friend’s body in the box, dead. As Lucy digs deeper, she uncovers a trail of murders and suspects. With the help of a fierce group of female magicians and mystics, she must expose the truth before she becomes the final act.

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This week we are headed to the world of art collecting. Matisse, Monet, and a little art forgery that makes you wonder what is authentic and what isn't? Let's find out more in Artist, Lover, Forger, Thief by Sheila Sharpe.

Artist, Lover, Forger, Thief is a riveting, wildly entertaining, complex, and adrenaline-fueled art crime novel that is as intriguing as it is satisfying. Nick McCoy wants out of the art forgery business but not until he exacts revenge on the man who murdered his family years ago. Kate O’Dade, McCoy’s former therapist, comes to him for help after mysteriously receiving a painting of Matisse’s Open Window from an unknown benefactor. This seemingly innocent meeting to determine its authenticity sets off a chain of events that will take McCoy, O’Dade, Cromwell and his new team of investigators from San Diego to England, and from art forgery to murder.

Rarely do you find such complex characters, intricate plot, compelling subject, and cunning psychological jousting woven throughout such a memorable story like Sharpe does in Artist, Lover, Forger, Thief.

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